The footwear and fashion accessories fair, due to begin on Monday in São Paulo, is expecting to receive 70,000 visitors from Brazil and abroad. Exhibitors account for 90% of the industry’s output.
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Cocoa producers from southern Bahia established the first fine chocolate factory from family farming in Brazil. The foreign market is targeted by the group, which plans to produce 450 tonnes a year.
Businessman Josely Rosa, of building company Grupo Baram, went to the Emirates and was impressed by the automation level in construction work. He makes equipment such as scaffoldings for the industry.
This is the value of contracts signed from January to mid December, with US$ 33 billion turned just to civil construction works. The country is the second main market in the sector in the Middle East.
The maker of machinery and equipment for the food industry, which already exports to the Emirates, plans to increase sales to the Middle East and North Africa in 2011.
The Arab Brazilian Chamber has included participation in three more international fairs in its calendar: Libya Build, in Tripoli, Food Arabia, in Jeddah, and Sahara Expo, in Cairo.
The country is seeking international companies willing to supply it with skim milk powder, whole milk powder and butter oil. Bids should be submitted by January 10th.
Equatorial Alimentos, a slaughterhouse from the state of Maranhão, already exports to Saudi Arabia, Palestine, the Emirates, Libya and Jordan, and aims to expand operation in the Arab world.
Representatives of enterprises based in Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have been to São Paulo seeking opportunities in fashion, furniture, cosmetics and foodstuffs.
The sector is important for the country economy and generates two million jobs. To expand foreign activities, the minister of Handicraft, Anis Birrou, is heading a business delegation to São Paulo.
Apex has established an agreement with the Abexa, a new handicraft association, and forecasts investment of US$ 4.7 million, to foster exports. For 2011, the target is to sell US$ 3.9 million abroad.
The Brazilian embassy in Lebanon has begun promoting Project Lebanon, an infrastructure, energy and technology exhibition due May. The country’s economy is showing strong growth.
Middle Eastern importers in the food, construction and furniture industries are negotiating with Brazilian trading companies in São Paulo. Export Promotion Agency expects US$ 30 million in deals.
Indumak, a maker of packing and bundling machinery that has been exporting to Egypt for eight years, is seeking new distributors in North Africa and the Middle East.
