From the Newsroom São Paulo – Cooperativa Mista Rondon (Copagril), a cooperative from the city of Marechal Cândido Rondon, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, will inaugurate today (28), at 05:00 p.m., a poultry slaughterhouse. The new enterprise should generate around 3,100 new jobs, of which 1,600 direct and 1,500 indirect. Copagril invested around
Author: Mark Ament
Brazilian president Lula arrives in the Swiss city tomorrow. Ministers Furlan (Development), Dirceu (Chief of Staff), Palocci (Finance) and Amorim (Foreign Relations), and the governor of the Central Bank are also on the delegation. One of the main themes of the World Economic Forum this year is the fight against poverty. The Brazilian president is going to address the matter there, and also at the World Social Forum, today in the city of Porto Alegre.
The Ministry of Agriculture has established for this year a 20% increase in international sales of fresh fruit. The opening of new markets, like the Chinese, Japanese and those of the Arab countries should help the country exceed the 2004 exports, which totalled 850,000 tonnes. Every year, 70% of the Brazilian fruit traded on the foreign market goes to Europe. So as to increase sales to the Arab countries, the Brazilian Fruit Institute is going to participate in two shows in the region in 2005.
Fragole produces beach fashion products, like hand-painted or embroidered bikinis, shorts and bathrobes with shells and crystals. The difference has guaranteed the company adepts outside the country in no time. Among the markets that are destinations for their products are the United Arab Emirates. In 2004, they had revenues of US$ 200,000 with exports. The company manager and partner, Cláudia Regina Tropea, plans to increase these revenues to US$ 300,000 this year.
Past and present university life in Brazil would not be the same had it not been for the existence of two publishing houses established by Zahar. Jorge Zahar, son of a Lebanese father and French mother, is widely renowned as an essential character in the Brazilian contemporary history of social science. This is due to his work as an editor specialized in the area. In 1956, he and brothers Ernesto and Lucien established Zahar Editores, a pioneer in selection, translation and publishing of books b
The 160 kilometre long race is going to take place on Thursday. Six competitors from Brazil, four men and two women, are going to participate together with competitors from another 42 countries, in a total of 185 teams. Among the favourites are the riders from Dubai, Spain, France, Italy and the United States.
Past and present university life in Brazil would not be the same had it not been for the existence of two publishing houses established by Zahar. Jorge Zahar, son of a Lebanese father and French mother, is widely renowned as an essential character in the Brazilian contemporary history of social science. This is due to his work as an editor specialized in the area. In 1956, he and brothers Ernesto and Lucien established Zahar Editores, a pioneer in selection, translation and publishing of books b
The television channel with the largest number of spectators in Brazil has already invaded European, Mexican and Arab homes with its productions. Exports of Brazilian television production have grown 70% in the last five years. The company sells around 24,000 hours of programs on the foreign market every year. The mostly sought products are soap operas. At the end of last year they were being aired in 50 countries. The Terra Nostra soap opera, which tells the saga of Italian immigrants, is curre
The television channel with the largest number of spectators in Brazil has already invaded European, Mexican and Arab homes with its productions. Exports of Brazilian television production have grown 70% in the last five years. The company sells around 24,000 hours of programs on the foreign market every year. The mostly sought products are soap operas. At the end of last year they were being aired in 50 countries. The Terra Nostra soap opera, which tells the saga of Italian immigrants, is curre
After having its structure approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Agrinote, or Commercial Note of Agribusiness, may be issued by sector companies to finance, among others, production, industrial enterprises and exports. The government of Brazil has even created another five papers connected to agribusiness that may be negotiated on the stock market.
This load ended a negotiation process that lasted decades. The liberation of imports of the Brazilian fruit was announced by Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi during his visit to Brazil in September 2004.
Exports rose 1,767% in terms of revenues and reached US$ 12 million. The value is small when compared to the US$ 4 billion that the country exported to the Arabs, but represents 44.5% of total foreign sales of the Federal District, in midwestern Brazil, where country capital Brasília is located. Rio Grande do Sul, in the south, also had important participation in trade with the Arabs, rising from the third to the second position in the list of states that had most revenues with exports to the re
Brazil doubled its foreign sales of musical instruments in 2004. Quality and low cost are the main competitive advantages of the domestic products, which cost around two thirds of the price of instruments made in other countries. Weril, a company that makes wind instruments, has never exported as much as last year. Giannini, which makes string instruments, also registered export growth in 2004. The United Arab Emirates are among the new markets for Brazilian companies on foreign trade.
Brazil was the country that exported the largest volume of cattle beef last year. Sales generated US$ 2.52 billion and reached 1.21 million tonnes. The country also expanded its markets and started exporting to 40 new countries. Among the main destinations are Arab nations like Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia.
