Architect Lauro Miquelin is going to give a talk about how to build hospitals fast at a health sector exhibition to take place in Dubai starting on Sunday. He is participating in the event at the invitation of the Health Consortium, a project whose objective is the promotion of health services in Brazil and abroad. Consortium manager Mauro Stormovski will speak about what Brazil has to offer in the area.
Author: Mark Ament
Exports, which grew 23%, were among the main causes for the increase. The shipments to the Arab market, which totalled US$ 66.3 million in the accumulated result for January and February, have risen 50% since the beginning of the decade. Meats, soy oil and sugar are the highlights.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil is the seventh main global destination for events. The country received 207 international meetings last year and thus guaranteed a place in the ranking by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the main international association in the sector. The report reveals that Brazil rose four positions when
Agência Brasil* Porto Alegre – One of the main global meetings about freeware computer programs begins today (12) at the convention centre at the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Fiergs). It is the eighth edition of the International Free Software Forum, a meeting that brings together the main technicians
The Arab Brazilian Chamber is registering Brazilian companies interested in participating in The Hotel Show, a hospitality sector fair to take place between June 03rd and 05th in the United Arab Emirates. The organization will have a 144-square-metre stand at the fair, which presents products for hotel management, including furniture, decorations, hygiene material and food.
Brazilian trading company Latinex, from the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, which operates in the field of foods, is participating in Tripoli International Fair for the first time. The company hopes to start selling within two months. Brazilian presence at the fair was organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazil exported over US$ 11.7 billion in agricultural products between January and March this year. The value is 20% greater than exports in the same period of 2006, when the country sold abroad a total of US$ 9.795 billion. Imports also grew in the first quarter of 2007: they were 33%
The value was reached in the first quarter of the year and is almost 20% greater than that registered in the same period in 2006. In March alone, sales to the region reached US$ 597 million, an increase of 24%. Shipments to the Arab world continue rising above the national average.
The forecast for the coming five years was made by the minister of infrastructure of the Arab country, Abu Zeid Durdda, during a meeting with directors at the Arab Brazilian Chamber. The local government also intends to supply a housing deficit of 500,000 houses. Brazilian companies may participate in the projects, as well as supplying construction material.
In January last year, brand Divinas, which makes handicraft out of banana tree fibre, made an unexpected sale: a 100-square-metre carpet, weighing about 350 kilograms, to queen Rania, of Jordan. The deal was made soon after the company participation in fair Maison et Object, in France.
The company, which is based in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and manages 21 hotels in Brazil, intends to build a hotel in Rabat. Bristol already has at its disposal the financing of a North American financial institution and intends to find investors after the hotel is ready. The construction works should begin this year.
The increase in production took place in the first months of this year when compared to the same period in 2006. This was the best performance in the period since 2001. The segment is responsible for production of machinery and equipment to be used in the production of other goods.
Pilots of the state-owned oil company Syrte Oil received the Embraer 170 jet airplane last Monday. It will be used for transporting employees. In an interview to ANBA, the Brazilian ambassador to Tripoli, Luciano Ozório Rosa, stated that Libya also has business opportunities in the fields of agricultural machinery, foodstuffs, textiles, furniture, domestic utensils, shoes, and civil construction.
FrutaSã, based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão, produces mashed fruit and generates income for small farmers and Indian tribes in the state. The company, which is the economic arm of Frutos do Cerrado (Fruit of the Savannah) Project, is the only Brazilian representative among the companies shortlisted for the Equator Prize, by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
