Traders at the Brazilian footwear manufacturer visited the Arab country seeking a local partner. They attended the last days of the Tripoli International Fair, which ended yesterday and counted on the participation of the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
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Missions from the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul are going to be in the United Arab Emirates still this month. They are going to prospect business and present products and investment opportunities.
The Brazilian Association of the Manufacturers of Medical and Dental Products wants to organise a delegation to the Arab country in 2009. According to the executive director at the organisation, Hely Maestrello, who is currently in Libya, the market there has great potential for Brazilian products.
The Ministry of Health of the Arab country has forecasted for this year a budget of US$ 800 million to redo hospitals. Brazilian and Lebanese representatives in the sector met in Tripoli, where an international fair is taking place. The Arab Brazilian Chamber is participating.
Around 20 businessmen interested in importing foods, building material, machinery and auto parts visited the Brazilian stand at Tripoli International Fair. The event, which started on Wednesday and ends on April 12th, includes the presence of the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
The business delegation from Minas Gerais, headed by the deputy governor of the state, Antonio Anastásia, and the president at the Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais, Robson Braga de Andrade, is going to participate in meetings with entrepreneurs and government officials in Egypt. The mission is coming from Dubai and should remain in the country until Tuesday.
Companies Neolite Egypt, and Al Ganoub Tanning Factory, based in Egypt and in Saudi Arabia, respectively, are going to showcase their products at the 32nd Fimec, a trade fair for leather and shoe parts, to be held next week in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Neolite manufactures rubber resins, and Al Ganoub makes goat leather.
The business mission from the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, currently in the United Arab Emirates, visited company Masdar, in charge of the project for the green city under construction in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, yesterday. The vice-governor of Minas Gerais, Antonio Anastásia, told ANBA that he wants to take the experience to students in the state.
The foreign trade manager at the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association, Márcio Caparroz, started yesterday a series of activities in the Arab country to learn a little more about the local market. There is space, in Libya, both for cheaper meats and for differentiated ones, according to him. The retail sector in the country is mainly small and medium.
Businessmen from Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Brazil presented project Braziland yesterday, at the offices of the Arab Brazilian Chamber. The plan is to build a miniature Brazil on one of the artificial islands of Dubai. The idea is to attract investment from Brazilian companies to the enterprise.
The information was supplied by the president at the Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais, Robson Braga de Andrade, who heads, alongside the state vice-governor, Antonio Anastásia, a mission from the southeastern Brazilian state to the Arab world. The idea is for the office to help Minas Gerais do more business in the region. The delegation from the state to the Emirates is going to Egypt too.
Full Gauge is a factory of instruments for cooling and solar warming systems. The company from the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul exported to the United Arab Emirates for the first time in March and hopes to expand sales to the Arabs by 25% this year. In the region, the organisation already sells to Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.
Bovespa, BM&F and other organisations in the sector will promote a workshop in Dubai, on the 21st, with the objective of attracting investors from the region. The effort, dubbed BEST, aims to promote the Brazilian market around the world.
The executive director at Abiec, Marcio Caparroz, is in the country to consolidate and improve ties with local buyers. The executive director at Abimo, Hely Maestrello, is going to prospect the market. They are also going to visit Tripoli International Fair, which begins on Wednesday.
