The largest chain of language schools in Brazil has established a daring expansion plan for 2005. Wizard already has six franchisees on the foreign market, in Japan and the United States, and the plan is now to go to Europe and to the remaining countries in Latin America. Three franchises have already been opened in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina and they teach Portuguese and English. The target is to have at least 20 schools outside Brazil up to the end of next year.
Author: Mark Ament
While visiting Brazil, the director of ComputerMan, Abubaker Mustafa Mohd Khair, signed a contract for technology and student and professor exchange with the institution in the Federal District. Khair, who will be returning to Sudan on Saturday, intends to close other similar partnerships up to next year. He is also interested in taking flower cultivation technology to the African country, as his university is going to open a research centre in the area in Ethiopia.
Apart from being an information channel about the foreign market, the Internet operates as a window for Brazilian products. Businessmen guarantee that it is possible to sell to the Europeans, Americans, Asians, Africans and Arabs on the net. Distributor Brazilian Bikinis, established in March this year, does all its exports on the net. Aegis Semicondutores has increased company sales by 40% after reformulating its site.
Agência Brasil Brasília – On Friday (10), in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brazil will submit an inventory on greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbonic acid gas, during the period 1994-98. Brazil will also report on the measures it has adopted since adhering to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The document will be presented
From the Newsroom São Paulo – A new study developed by the Brazilian Central Bank (BC) shows that the country Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is going to grow 5% this year. Last week, the study for which economists and market analysts were addressed, showed growth of 4.66%. This is the fifth week running that the
Company Zen, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, exported 135,000 starter drives to the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, as well as Israel and Iran. The shipping of parts to the region represented around 1.65% of total company sales. The Zen target is to increase this percentage to 3% in 2005. The company is a national leader in the sector and exports to over 50 countries.
Of the US$ 33 billion trade balance surplus the country should have this year, US$ 30 billion should come from agribusiness. These forecasts are by the National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA). In the last three years, the trade balance surplus of agricultural products was greater than that of total Brazilian trade. In 2002, for example, the foreign trade surplus of the agricultural sector was US$ 20.3 billion, and the total country surplus was US$ 13.1 billion.
Fanem, the Brazilian leader in the neonatology sector, products for newly born babies like incubators and special cribs, is studying the installation of an assembly line in one of the 22 Arab countries. The intention is to simplify product sales in the Middle East and North Africa, the second largest market for the company on the foreign market, losing only to Latin America. Of all Brazilian export in the sector, 93% are credited to the company.
While president Lula visited the Arab nations last year, trade doors were opened for hundreds of Brazilian exporters. From then on, 526 new companies entered the list of organizations that export to Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Libya, the countries visited. The flow of Arab businessmen after business in Brazil has also grown, as has the list of products exported increased.
In November purchases on the foreign market totalled US$ 6 billion. The previous monthly record had been US$ 5.9 billion, registered in June 1997. According to specialists, the improvement in the Brazilian economy, aligned with the high price of oil, generated the 42.7% increase in comparison to November 2003. Imports from the Middle East rose 122%.
Brazil already exports cattle beef to 140 countries. In the evaluation of the executive director of the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association, Antonio Camardelli, the number of destinations is going to rise, at least, to 150. Foreign sales, according to him, are going to rise at least 10%. The Arab countries already answer to 16% of the revenues obtained by the sector on the foreign market and should continue growing in importance.
The Brazilian mining company and industry, which belongs to mining giant Vale do Rio Doce and BHP Billiton, is going to supply 1.7 million tonnes of iron pellets to Qatar Steel Company, a state-owned company, up to 2010. In current figures, the value of the deal is around US$ 80 million, but it may vary according to fluctuation of the price of the product on the foreign market. Nowadays the Arab market absorbs 22% of company production.
