The Arab Brazilian Chamber in partnership with the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency is launching today, with a seminar, a trade delegation to the Gulf, to take place between November 18th and 30th. Over 70 companies have enrolled to participate in the meeting to provide an economic panorama of the three countries to be visited, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Author: Mark Ament
The project developed by the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency was established in 2001 to stimulate sector exports. From then on, 980 companies have already participated in actions promoted by the organization. For 2008, the association forecasts a trade mission to Dubai.
Perishable goods should have their entry into the Arab market made easier with the flight that the Emirates Airline will inaugurate in October, from the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo to Dubai. Fruit, for example, will benefit from the flight. The flight will be 15 hours long and will have space for 12 tonnes of cargo. The subject was approached yesterday during a luncheon attended by businessmen, journalists and the director of Emirates Brazil, Ralf Aasman, at the Arab Brazili
This is the estimate of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea). The last forecast made by the organisation, in June, was for the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow 4.3%. According to figures disclosed by the Ipea, greater dynamism in consumption and in investment in Brazil up to now has made it possible to increase the forecast.
Brazilian television channel Futura is interested in the exchange of professionals, programs and also in co-production with channels in the Arab world. One of the reasons is the large Arab community and the strong cultural heritage from the region in Brazil.
Brazilian television channel Futura is interested in the exchange of professionals, programs and also in co-production with channels in the Arab world. One of the reasons is the large Arab community and the strong cultural heritage from the region in Brazil.
Cheese bread, guava, juice and fruit jams are some of the genuinely Brazilian products selected for the Ethnic Brazil Project to be promoted abroad. Planned by the Brazilian Association of Exporters and Importers of Food and Beverages (ABBA), with the support of the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency, the project will have its first actions in October. The Arab countries are among the list of potential importers.
Rachid Talbi Alami, minister-delegate to the prime minister of Morocco, was met yesterday, in Brazilian capital Brasília, by the vice president of Brazil, who is acting president due to an international trip by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He has come to ask for support from Brazil for Morocco to host an international exhibition in 2012. The fair is organised by the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE), of which Brazil is a member.
Caliman farm, the owner of the largest papaya plantation in the country, wants the foreign market to stop considering the fruit exotic and to consume it frequently, as is the case with mango and pineapple. The company, which invests 500,000 Brazilian reais (US$ 250,000) per year in research and technology, was the first Brazilian organisation to develop hybrid papaya seeds.
Janimar, a garment manufacturer from the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is attracting the attention of the Brazilian market through the production of underwear made out of bamboo fibre. The articles are ecologically correct, as the plants take less time to grow than do other kinds of trees out of which viscose is made. Next year, Janimar intends to seek buyers for the product among the Arab nations.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Mining companies of Brazil are going to invest 56 billion Brazilian reais (US$ 29.5 billion) between 2007 and 2011, according to figures supplied by the Brazilian Mining Institute (Ibram). In the area of research alone, the sector investment this year will reach US$ 350 million. Last year, mining industry
The colours and the culture of Brazil. That is what characterizes the work of fashion designer Magna Coeli, of brand Refazenda, based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. She brought together handicraft produced by 300 artisans affiliated to 10 different cooperatives to create unique clothing items, using lace such as bobbin, renaissance, and filet. The brand has already conquered customers in Europe and the Arab world, to which lace with golden threads was sold.
Santo Antônio Egg Farm, from the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, is doubling exports to a food industry in Jebel Ali, in the United Arab Emirates, this month. Approximately 1.8 million eggs will be shipped. The Arab country is the main destination for company exports.
