A delegation from Egypt should be in Brazil next week with the objective of identifying business and investment opportunities. Meetings should take place with companies and sector organisations.
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Al Maya group, from Dubai, closed deals for four containers of rice. Company Al Saeed, from Yemen, is returning with business developed. Around 70 companies visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber stand.
Groups from Kuwait and Bahrain are interested in taking café and restaurant franchises to their countries. Representatives of the companies are in São Paulo participating in the Apas supermarket fair.
Representatives of Alsaeed Trading Company, who are in São Paulo, believe that by the end of the week they should close a deal with Itambé, one of the main dairies in Brazil.
Apart from meats and commodities, the main products exported by Brazil to the Arab market, the country wants to sell processed food and to attract investment to the agro industrial sector.
Six companies from the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain are in São Paulo to participate in the Apas fair, in the supermarket sector, which starts today and ends on Thursday.
The president of the Saudi Arabian Investment Authority, Amr Al Dabbagh, will travel late this month to talk to businessmen about projects in his country and look into opportunities in Brazil.
The country plans to invest the funds, both public and private, in the diversification of its economy by 2020. The plan involves the strengthening of three sectors and the construction of four cities.
Biomm, in the biotechnology sector, and Petrobras should sign agreements with Saudi companies on Sunday. One of them involves the production of insulin for trade in the Middle East.
Enterprises such as Petrobras, Marcopolo, Randon, Vale, Odebrecht, Andrade Gutierrez, Sadia and Perdigão should attend business meetings on the sidelines of the president’s trip to the Arab country.
The classification by the World Bank includes 181 international organisations for investment attraction and pointed out the Brazilian Apex, which only lost to the Australian agency.
Sierra, headquartered in Gramado, makes furniture and luxury decorations and exports to over 20 countries, like the Emirates, Algeria and Qatar. This year, the company wants to expand exports by 20%.
The figure was presented by export promotion agency Apex and shows that the segment answers to 10.5% of foreign sales. Apex has a program for encouraging small company exports via trading enterprises.
The thermoplastic division of the Saudi petrochemical company should have a stand at the fair that is taking place this week, in São Paulo.
