The construction company has four contracts with the government of the North African Arab country and is managing enterprises in the area of water supply, sewage, draining, public lighting, telephony, road building and urbanism. It is one more Brazilian construction company in operation in the Arab country.
Author: Mark Ament
On the 35th anniversary of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, the federal government has announced funds of 914 million Brazilian reals (US$ 548 million) for expansion of agricultural research up to 2010. The plan also forecasts the establishment of a private company connected to Embrapa to operate, mainly, in the foreign area.
Fotossíntese produced two videos during a global Species Survival Commission meeting early this year, in the city of Al-Ain, in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Local leaders connected to the environment were interested in the work developed by the agency, which now plans to seek new challenges in the region.
Due to the consumption of ethanol in Brazil, the oil company wants to win new markets for the oil products it makes. The organisation is going to invest US$ 8.5 billion to improve the quality of the fuel made in the country.
A research by consultancy company Grant Thornton shows that 64% of the national companies with closed capital plan to expand through acquisitions over the next three years. The percentage is greater than the world average, 44%.
DL Mato Grosso is going to place on the foreign market, between the end of this year and the next, sugar free fondues, bonbons and chocolate bars made by them. The main focus should be the hospitality and deli market in the Arab world.
The Gross Domestic Product of agribusiness in the state of Minas Gerais should reach 71 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 42.8 billion) in 2008. In January, the sector grew 1.18% over the same month last year, above the national average.
This information was disclosed by the vice president of market intelligence for the executive jets division at the Brazilian aircraft maker, Cláudio Camelier, in an interview to newspaper Gulf News, from Dubai. The objective is to supply the growing demand in the region. The Middle East is today one of the main growth sources for the company.
The Brazilian industry in the sector has shipped abroad 54.2 million pairs of shoes between January and March. The increase in volume was 8%. Reveneus reached US$ 519 million and grew 5.2%. The main importer was the United States.
Makaseb is interested in investing in the food area in the country and in finding an engineering and building company prepared to sign a partnership for the transfer of know-how. Executives from the institution visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber on Friday.
The northeastern Brazilian state earned US$ 309 million in the first quarter this year. Ceará also diversified its exports by 9.3% from January to March. Fruit and lobster were the most sold products to foreign countries.
Costa Cruzeiros sent between the end of last year and the beginning of this year a group of 1,200 Brazilians on cruises around the Arab world, visiting Dubai. Reserves for the next season, which begins in November and ends in March 2009, opened early this month.
Apart from creating, renting and selling hats and garlands, two businesswomen from the city of São Paulo (SE Brazil) develop accessories for theatre, musicals, soap operas, fashion parades, theme balls and operas. The variety of the work developed by the duo has already generated special orders like the creation of hats for Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women.
The country increased exports of industrialized coffee by 145% in the first quarter of this year as against the same quarter in 2007. Sales abroad totalled 1,700 tonnes of products. Total revenues were US$ 9.2 million.
