Over 100 businessmen in the Middle East participated in Dubai in the opening of event Flavours from Brazil, organized by the Apex, whose objective is promotion of Brazilian products in the region.
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Arab Bank, one of the largest in the region, offers credit for trade operations between Brazil, the Middle East and North Africa. Bank executives say the institution has liquidity despite the crisis.
Six companies should participate in the Flavours from Brazil event, in the Emirates, with the objective of expanding sales to the Arabs. The producers should have meetings with buyers in the region.
Bela Iaçá, with a factory in Pará, already exports assai pulp to the United States, Canada and Japan. Now the target is to win new markets, among them the countries of the Middle East.
At the Brazilian stand at Gulfood, which begins next week, five companies are going to show their dairy products to the Arabs. All of them already export and want to increase sales to the region.
The furniture fair in the city should have importers from Jordan, the Emirates and Morocco. Their presence helps local producers understand the taste of Arab markets in the furniture sector.
The Brazilian Amacoco already exports to over 10 countries and plans to start shipping to the Middle East this year. For this, the company is going to participate in the Gulfood fair, in Dubai.
Miamel, from Içara, is aware of the business potential in the Middle East and North Africa. In Europe, the cash cow is honey from Bracatinga bark, rich in minerals.
Buyers from Algeria, Oman and the United Arab Emirates should close orders at the high-end furniture and accessory fair, which began yesterday. They have already selected several products.
Over 60 Brazilian companies invested in Fruit Logistica, in Germany. For the next 12 months, the Ibraf and Apex perspective is that another US$ 121 million in business should be generated.
Five years ago, the company from Jundiaí won the Arab market with hair products. With distributors in nine countries in the region, the organisation is going to a fair in Dubai seeking more business.
Netuno, headquartered in Recife, bet on the purchase potential of the emirate two years ago and hired an exclusive trader for that market, generating good business for the exporter.
Santanense, headquartered in Itaúna wants to intensify the process for internationalisation of its brand in 2009. The countries of the Middle East and North Africa are among the target markets.
Companies Itamaraty and Docile, in the food sectors, are going to participate in fair Gulfood, in Dubai, aiming at increasing sales to the region and establishing partnerships with new clients.
