Christian Barbosa, the export manager at Itatiaia, a maker of furniture, met yesterday with a representative of a large company from the Arab country at the Arab Brazilian Chamber stand at Khartoum International Fair. Up to the end of the event, Barbosa should meet with the director at the Arab company.
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Yesterday, on the first day of Khartoum International Fair, Sudanese, Saudi and Egyptian businessmen showed interest in importing Brazilian coffee, paper, plastic and soy oil. The Arab Brazilian Chamber stand was visited by the vice president of Sudan, Ali Osman Taha.
The document contains detailed information about 5,004 companies operating in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná – of which 1,300 are exporters and 1,000 are importers –, and will be available to interested parties in Brazil and abroad also on the internet, in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The leading trade fair for the shoe sector in Brazil, the International Shoes, Sportsgoods and Leathergoods Fair (Couromoda) generated a turnover of 6 billion reals (US$ 3.3 billion) in business deals during its four days, ending on Thursday (17th). The turnover was 11% greater than recorded in the 2007
Itacitrus, an exporter from the city of Itajobi, in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, already exports limes to countries in the European Union and Canada. Eyeing the business opportunities the company plans to enter the United Arab Emirates in the near future. In February, the company agent in Europe is going to participate in food sector fair Gulfood, in Dubai.
The owner of oyster farm Fazenda Marinha Ostravagante, in the city of Florianópolis, capital of the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, Paulo Constantino, is counting down the days until he starts making foreign sales. According to him, people from all over the world are interested in his produce. The mollusk produced in the state is the Crassostrea gigas, known as the Pacific Oyster. The state is responsible for 95% of national production of the species.
The main fair in the food sector in the Middle East, which takes place in Dubai, will include a stand set up by the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil, with 12 companies. Another 23 – in the sectors of cattle beef, chicken and fruit – will have their own spaces or are going to exhibit with sectorial associations.
Geometric forms, live colours and symmetry in the designs. These are the similarities of the canvases and panels painted by artist Susana Barros using the millenary Egyptian and Islamic art. The fascination for Arab culture took the artist to Egypt to study and understand this art better. Nowadays she aims at taking her work outside the country.
To the director at Couromoda, the International Shoes, Sportsgoods and Leathergoods Fair, Jeferson Santos, the sector needs to work with medium and high end products to compete on the foreign market and cope with the appreciation of the Brazilian real against the dollar. One of the markets with purchase potential is the Arab.
Companies Via Uno and Piccadilly hope to receive Arab clients during the 35th Couromoda, the shoe sector fair that began in São Paulo yesterday (14). Of the exports by Piccadilly, 10% go to the region. Via Uno, in turn, which has five shops in the Emirates, sees the market as more and more promising.
Meetings will be held in the United Arab Emirates and in Algeria to discuss business and investment opportunities, counting on the participation of public and private sector representatives from several nations. Both countries have ambitious investment plans for the coming years.
Ceratti, a traditional Brazilian maker of mortadella, has developed a light mortadella that, since 2005, has been certified halal by the Muslim Federation. The stamp has already guaranteed growth of 35% in the volume of company sales of the product.
Brazilian companies interested in the Arab market of North Africa will have an opportunity this month. From January 23rd to February 1st, Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, will host the 25th edition of the Khartoum International Fair. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce will have a stand for companies interested in sending promotional material or small samples.
The idea of the organisers of the Revestir tile fair, the largest in Latin America, is to promote an architecture and construction forum about the emirate. Anfacer, the organisation responsible for the event, aims at bringing representatives from Jebel Ali Port, in the United Arab Emirates, to the fair.
