The president of company Double M Engineering, Rafieg Faig Obied, who was in São Paulo last week, is seeking partners for the reconstruction of Juba University, in southern Sudan. The university should have a capacity for one thousand students and over 15,000 square metres in area.
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A group comprised of 11 Brazilian companies is going to participate in the Expo Riva Middle East, a trade fair for the shoe sector to be held in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. This is going to be the first time that Brazilian shoe companies participate in a fair in the Arab country by means of the Brazilian Footwear programme for encouraging exports.
Hamam International, which is responsible for the development and implementation of hotel infrastructure, already has projects in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia. According to the development director at the company, Gustavo Hamam, the opening of the new office also brings opportunities to Brazilian suppliers.
The volume of deals closed during the Big 5 Show was US$ 28 million, with another US$ 24 million expected for the next 12 months, according to the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency, which organised the Brazilian participation in the exhibition along with the Arab Brazilian Chamber. Both the fair and the construction sector trade mission to the Gulf ended yesterday.
The company, which owns industries in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, was one of the organisations that closed deals at the fair, as was the case with SBC Pierres, of granite, and Mosarte and Pamesa, both tile manufacturers. Other companies have deals in progress, as is the case with WK, which sells wood, and Braseco, a exporter of glass, both of which hope to export in the near future.
The company already has an office in the emirate. The first container to enter the warehouse, whose management is outsourced, is scheduled to arrive in the country in a fortnight. The organisation has already managed to make its knives popular in the region and now wants to do the same with other kinds of products it makes.
The estimate was presented yesterday by the president at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Antonio Sarkis Jr., during a dinner promoted by the organisation in Dubai for Brazilian and Arab businessmen. Ambassador Flávio Sapha claimed that the number of executives travelling between the two countries is on the rise.
Tiling manufacturers, like Parmesa and Mosarte, closed deals at the fair in Dubai. Others, like Brasilit and Cony, are about to do so. The president at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Antonio Sarkis Jr., wants to expand Brazilian participation in 2008. To the director of the Big 5, the greater presence of Brazilian companies in fairs in the emirate is evident.
Artist Marilza Ramos sold the 38 pictures she took to Index, the largest furniture and decoration fair in the Middle East. Now the company is studying the possibility of establishing a warehouse in Dubai. Formanova closed deals of US$ 60,000. Sarquis Sâmara, in turn, will have a shop at Ibn Batuta shopping centre.
Jebel Ali Free Zone, in the United Arab Emirates, already houses offices and distribution centres for three Brazilian companies. Another three will be present by the end of the year. Companies in the ornamental stones, auto parts and dental equipment fields will start using the premises owned there by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency, which were visited yesterday by the business mission currently in the Gulf.
The mission promoted by the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency visited real estate developer Sorouh, in charge of large real estate enterprises in the emirate. The director at the company, Adnan Salhi, stated that it is open to materials from Brazil, as long as they have good quality and pricing.
Brazilian granite manufacturer Guidoni is going to conclude, during the trade show in Dubai, a sale of 3,500 cubic metres of the product to a buyer from the Emirates. WK Trading has received a quotation request for 20 containers of woods. Yesterday, several companies began setting up deals at the fair.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The balance of trade surplus (exports minus imports) stood at US$ 139 million in the fourth week of November, the lowest weekly surplus in the month. From November 19th to 25th, foreign sales totalled US$ 3.5 billion, and foreign purchases stood at US$ 3.361 billion. According to data disclosed today (26th)
Yesterday, during the opening of the Big 5 Show, the minister of Finance and Industry of the Emirates, Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, visited the Brazilian stand. The Arab sheikh expressed admiration for Brazilian construction material, a sector that is the focus of the trade fair. At the Brazilian stand, 29 companies are showcasing their products.
