Alexandre Rocha * São Paulo – The summit between Arab and South American countries, to take place in Brazilian capital Brasília, in May this year, should strengthen trade between Brazil and the Arab world. This is the evaluation of Faris Muft, the Jordanian ambassador in Brasília, who participated this morning (14) in the opening of
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Alexandre Rocha and Geovana Pagel* São Paulo – About 200 people, among Arab and Brazilian businessmen and representatives of associations, participated in the seminar which opened the activities of the Arab trade mission, which is in Brazil to do business. Among those who were present was the Jordanian Halim Abdin, director at World Plastics, a
The president of the CCAB, Antonio Sarkis Jr., greeted the members of the mission of businessmen from five Arab countries who are in São Paulo showing the good figures of Brazilian foreign trade. Today and tomorrow, the group of businessmen will be participating in business roundtables at Renaissance hotel.
Sadia (meats), Klin (shoes) and Niasi (cosmetics) are some of the companies to participate in meetings with importers from Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon and Palestine at Renaissance hotel. One of the Brazilian companies that will be at the event, Fic/Phihong, which makes electronic equipment, plans to discuss the installation of a factory in the region. To some companies, among them garment manufacturer Beth Bebê, the roundtables may be an opportunity to start exporting.
Jobi Artezanato, established by entrepreneurs Jocelyne Scoffone and Edla Murad, ships around 1,000 products, among them tables, vases and trinkets covered in mosaics to the United States every two months. From there, the objects are distributed to the Americas, Middle East and Europe. The articles are produced by female artisans from the city of Vitória, capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Both partners decided to establish Jobi so as to bring income to the female popu
O Casulo Feliz (The Happy Cocoon), which started with a wooden distaff and production of six kilograms of thread every month, currently produces 2,000 kilograms a month and employs 140 people, all residents of a poor neighbourhood of the city of Maringá, in the state of Paraná. The company already exports silk thread and finished products, among them carpets and curtains, to Spain, Portugal, Italy and Argentina. The company owner recently travelled to Morocco and offered the products to business
Graduated in mathematics and the production supervisor of a mining company in the city of Cajati, in the Ribeira Valley, in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, José Amado Alves, is after investors to produce the flour. He has already transformed various fruit into flour, among them banana, guava, apple, pineapple, paw-paw and passion fruit. The process consists of dehydrating, drying and grinding the peel or the pulp of the fruit, or both together. The flour is colourful and tast
The minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, was invited by his Egyptian counterpart, Rachid Mohamed Rachid. The business event, one of the most important in the region, will take place in March and will have a Brazilian stand sponsored by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and by the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency. Also in March, Rachid may come to Brazil accompanied by businessmen from his country.
Based in the city of Frankfurt, in Germany, the company has four branches and 15 subsidiaries, apart from 49 representation offices on four continents. In 2004, the group had revenues of 364 million Euros and organized 110 fairs. Messe Frankfurt has been on the market for 750 years.
The Brazilian company is going to participate in the Idex fair, turned to the defence sector, for the third time. The event will take place in Abu Dhabi between February 12 and 17. There, the company is going to present the Super Tucano, a turboprop for training and light attack and their light aerial, land and maritime vigilance jets.
The event, which took place in São Paulo last week, gathered together buyers from 22 countries, amongst them Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – Brazilian shoe manufacturers will start in February the activities of the Brazilian Footwear, programme for the promotion of exports in the sector, planned for this year. From the 6th to 8th there will be the showroom for Brazilian Shoes, in Argentina, and from the 5th to 8th the
