The sweet producer from Rio Grande do Sul should send a container of sweets and chewing gum to each of the two Arab countries in June. The contacts were made at Gulfood, a food sector fair in Dubai.
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During the event, the Abimo is going to promote business roundtables with 24 importers from 15 countries, among them Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Qatar. Companies from Egypt, in turn, should exhibit.
The Export Promotion Agency is planning an exhibition of Brazilian products in Senegal. West African countries will be invited, including Mauritania. Minister Miguel Jorge should tour the region.
The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, should speak about business opportunities in the sector to businessmen at the fruit sector fair in Rio Grande do Norte on Wednesday.
The foreign market buys many products made by the company, which produces 140,000 square metres of granite and exports 90% to over 40 countries, including the Emirates, Egypt and Libya.
Companies in the building, dentistry equipment, pipe and connection, wood, dairy and auto parts sectors are going to exhibit at the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian embassy stand.
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.
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.
