In 2002, the Emirates were shown as the 12th largest world importer of HS 120929 (Harmonized System) classified seed, the same as the seed traded by Pantanal Trader, from the city of Campo Grande in the state midwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
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Brazilian company Sansuy may export technology to a large group in Qatar. The company presidency consultant informed ANBA that the proposal for creation of a joint venture involves all Sansuy products and local government financing.
A Global Monitor study in 31 countries shows that Brazil is now the sixth most entrepreneurial, with a population of 13.5 million people opening new businesses. With this in mind, the Brazilian Support Service to the Small Business (Sebrae) is expanding their Sebrae 2004 Challenge, with the intention of spreading entrepreneurship.
Amazonas, the largest producer of shoe components in Latin America, with offices in Franca, in the countryside of the southeastern state of São Paulo, has already been exporting to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates for 10 years. This year the company forecasts a growth of over 10% in foreign trade, mainly to the Arab countries.
Reed Exhibitions, which belongs to Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier, organizes 430 events in 32 countries every year. Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt are some of the hosts.
The Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace) is going to take place in São Paulo between April 15 and 17. Over 100 companies are going to exhibit and 3,500 visitors are expected. The sector has a turnover of US$ 300 million per year in the country.
In the last day of the event, another two companies from Saudi Arabia visited the Brazilian stand. One of them got in contact with Sansuy plastics, which already sells to the Arab market and intends to increase trade with the region this year.
The exhibition, which is the largest business event in Egypt, was considered "excellent" by the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Paulo Atallah. For this purpose, in 2005, the CCAB stand at the event will be doubled in size.
The Brazilian Zebu Breeders Association, which has a stand at the 37th Cairo International Fair, is going to export 300,000 heads of cattle per year to Egypt. Two Brazilian companies, Criogen, a producer of tanks and containers for compressed and liquefied gas, and Ataforma, which makes extractors and moulds for ice-cream, both participating in the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) stand, have announced good results. The first is negotiating a joint venture with an Egyptian company, and
Agência Brasil Brasília – The number of merger and takeover operations increased 50% in 2003, compared with 2002. According to the ranking prepared by the National Association of Investment Banks (Anbid), 42 operations occurred last year, as against 28 the year before. The financial, steel, and information technology/telecommunications sectors accounted for 75% of the total
The objective of the National Investment Information Network (Renai) is to centralize federal government and state government data and make investment "more transparent," informed project coordinator Denise Andrade Rodrigues to ANBA. The site will have a new company databank, which is not complete yet: an English version, for example, is missing.
Businessman Stephen Mazyuk visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce stand at Cairo International Fair, showing interest in establishing a partnership for toy import and export, and for technology transfer between both countries. Brazilian company Ataforma, which works with ice-cream moulds and extractors, is in negotiation with two Egyptian importers.
The export consortium Brazilian Cattle Genetics (BCG), established by the Brazilian Zebu Breeders Association (ABCZ) to increase export of semen and live animals, counts on the support of the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency (Apex) and is planning to invest around US$ 900,000 in marketing for promotion of the Brazilian cattle genetic material. ABCZ has a stand at the Cairo International Fair.
Two large Saudi companies interested in sectors that include building material and consumer goods, like shoes, cosmetics, and food, have started negotiating with Brazilian businessmen. Cairo International Fair makes business opportunities with around 80 different countries possible.
