The clothes made by this famous brand from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo are exported to the Emirates and Lebanon. The client who has brand exclusiveness in Dubai was in Brazil last year to visit the company. The main characteristics of the products created by Carmim are happy colours and sensuality.
Author: Mark Ament
Businessman and designer Jorge Guimarães established brand J.Wlad in 2001,aimed at the foreign market, and currently exports 20% of production to the United Arab Emirates, England, the United States, Russia, Belgium and Japan. His shoes are different from others as they are embroidered with stones, strass and crystals.
Up to the end of July, the site South America-Arab Countries Research Centre/Library should go on air. Edited by the Brazilian Paulo Farah, a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), it will include poetry, photographs, articles, an events agenda, and other information in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. Later on, a magazine named Sikr will be released, and it will bring together works by authors from both regions.
Up to the end of July, the site South America-Arab Countries Research Centre/Library should go on air. Edited by the Brazilian Paulo Farah, a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), it will include poetry, photographs, articles, an events agenda, and other information in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. Later on, a magazine named Sikr will be released, and it will bring together works by authors from both regions.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Roullier Brazil is going to invest R$ 18 million (approximately US$ 8.5 million) in the modernization of their industrial unit in Brazil, which is in the city of Rio Grande, in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. The company is a French multinational that makes products like
Mosarte, a company from Santa Catarina, started selling mosaics for flooring and walling to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates around two years ago. The Arabs are currently main clients for the company, the leader in the Brazilian mosaic market with a market share of approximately 70%.
Agência Brasil* Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is scheduled to announce tomorrow (21) that Brazil has reached self-sufficiency in petroleum, guaranteed with the entry into operation of platform P-50. The structure will be the largest in operation in Brazil, adding over 180,000 barrels of oil to Brazilian production. Last month, Petrobras produced
Utiara, a processor of pulp, juice and fruit concentrates, exported orange juice to the United Arab Emirates in 2005. This year, the company wants to prospect the remaining countries of the Middle East and North Africa and bets on the potential of the market.
The figure, referring to 2005, is part of a study by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, one of the most famous Brazilian business administration schools, in São Paulo (SE), and represents growth of 16.7% over the expenses made by financial institutions in the area in the previous year. Banks invested 11% of their net assets in technology in 2005.
This information was supplied yesterday by the Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, during a meeting with the minister of Foreign Business of Algeria, Mohammed Bedjaoui, in Brazilian capital Brasília. The Brazil-Algeria Mixed Committee met this week for the first time in almost 20 years.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Nestlé and Fonterra, a cooperative from New Zealand, are going to install an industrial unit in the city of Palmeira das Missões, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The new dairy, to be called Dairy Partners America (DPA), is going to process one million litres
The Brazilian state owned oil company produced 2.2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day during the month of March. Of this total, 261,000 came from operations abroad. Production in Brazil increased by 10% in relation to the same month in 2005.
Importers from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Syria are going to participate at the end of the month of May in business roundtables with Brazilian suppliers of sector products, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. The meetings, to include micro and small companies on the Brazilian side, should generate US$ 3 million in immediate business.
The company Serasa has a partnership with Mecos, from Cyprus, through which it offers commercial information on 60,000 companies in the Middle East, amongst them companies in 11 Arab countries. Demand for the service has been increasing due to the increase in trade with the region, according to Serasa.
