Author: Mark Ament
The strategy is participation in sector fairs in the region, where the company has partnerships with local representatives. Apart from producing glasses, wine glasses, plates, teacups and other articles for household use, the company also operates in the sector of glass packages for industrial use. In the company export portfolio are clients in 120 countries. Among them Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
With their eye on the potential of this market, the French airline has a program called Petroleum Club, which provides a series of privileges to those who work in the sector or work for oil companies. The advantages are offered when these passengers travel to destinations included in the club. Among them are two Brazilian cities and seven Arab ones. In Brazil, Petroleum Club has 503 members.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazilian shrimp are subject to a 10.4% surcharge on exports to the United States, in compliance with a decision by the US Department of Commerce. American fishermen were originally asking for a surcharge of approximately 60%. According to the Minister of the Special Secretariat of Aquiculture and Fishing, José Fritsch, despite
The industrial bread factory based in the city of Porto Alegre, capital of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, started producing products with greater added value and with a longer shelf life so as to start exporting. Since the company started producing a cake, in the beginning of 2004, importers from Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and Argentina are constantly getting into contact with the company.
The company that makes plastic buckets, bowls, clothesbaskets and dustbins exports products to countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa and also to Canada. Up to then the company focus had been the American countries. "Next year we are going to invest in the Arab market," stated the company export manager, Hilmar Sell. Participation in fair House & Home Tech Exhibition will be the first step to start selling to the region.
A group of artisans from the interior of northeastern Brazil who work with goat and cattle leather, have established a cooperative to join efforts and grow. Participation in fairs guarantees the sale of products to various states and the shipping abroad of the first samples. The Arab countries are also considered potential markets.
The packages created by the company from São Paulo will be used by Co-op Islami starting at the beginning of 2005. The company from the United Arab Emirates produces, imports and sells food made following Muslim rules. Representatives of the cooperative visited Brazil three months ago to find companies in the communications area. Apart from B+G, photography studio Meca was also selected. Co-op Islami distributes food in seven Arab countries and imports US$ 100 million a year.
For the Brazilian minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, the positive figures presented by the Brazilian economy in recent months permit the forecast of a greater increase in the country GDP. In the first half he believed in a GDP growth of 4%, whereas the government target was 3.5%. Up to September, according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the country GDP grew 5.3%.
The sales rose from 2.9 million tonnes between January and October 2003 to 5.3 million in the same period this year. Sector representatives in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, the second largest sugarcane producer in Brazil, are going to participate in fairs in Saudi Arabia and Syria next year so as to further increase sales. The state produces 1.8 million tonnes of sugar and has a special terminal to ship sugar in bulk at the Port of Paranaguá.
The Economic Development Secretariat of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo has created three programs to increase the number of companies that export, which currently total 8,400. These projects include sponsorship so that small exporters may participate in international events, a catalogue of products and companies and the organization of seminars.
The company from the state of São Paulo sells houses made out of steel structures and sold two prototypes to the United Arab Emirates two months ago. Now they are awaiting an answer from the company that is going to develop real estate enterprises with investment of US$ 25 million.
Brazilian farmers are going to harvest 61.4 million tonnes of soy in the next harvest. The price reduction should stimulate the growing of the genetically modified (GM) variety, as GM seeds demand less use of pesticides. The Brazilian government has authorized the sowing and trade of GM seeds by a Provisory Measure (MP). Despite the lower prices paid for GM soy, farmers are stimulated to produce this kind of seed as the prices of maize, the alternative to the product, are also very low.
