The owners of real estate units in The Pearl, a luxury residential island under construction in the capital of Qatar, include Brazilians. The information was obtained yesterday, during a visit to the project by the construction sector mission from Brazil to the Gulf. The group sought information on how to supply construction material to the works on the island, which is receiving investment of US$ 13.9 billion.
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The Qatari Businessmen Association is going to promote, in October next year, a conference for Arab businessmen and descendents living away from their region of origin. The aim is to exchange experiences. The information was supplied by the general director at the organisation, Bassam Massouh, who met with Arab Brazilian Chamber representatives yesterday in Doha.
This statement was made yesterday (22) by the president at the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), Alessandro Teixeira, at the National Foreign Trade Meeting (Enaex). The agency should have the emirate and Egypt among its priority markets for 2008. The executive secretary at the Ministry of Development of Brazil, Ivan Ramalho, pointed out that trade with the Arabs has been growing above the national average.
The time for Qatar to invest in Brazil is coming. This opinion was disclosed to ANBA by Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kuwari, member of the executive committee at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Arab country, after meeting the Brazilian trade delegation visiting Doha. Qatar has invested US$ 60 billion around the world in two years.
Real estate company Malbanee, from Kuwait, is building the second phase of shopping centre The Avenues, and is open to buying construction material from Brazil. Construction sites were visited by the Brazilian trade delegation in the sector that was in the Arab country. The manager at the shopping centre, Abdulaziz Alhomaibi, claimed that he would also like to house Brazilian fashion stores.
The statement was made by Abdulwahab Mohammed Al-Wazzan, director at the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry and president at the Kuwait International Bank. He believes that trade between Brazil and his country has a prospect of rapid growth.
Bioessens intends to expand its client list next year. Among the markets to be prospected are the Arab countries. All varieties of propolis made by the brand are picked in wild areas to avoid contamination. Apart from that, the company has its own laboratory equipped to do microbiological and physical and chemical analysis for the development of the products.
The activities of the trade mission to the Gulf, organised by the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency, will begin today in Kuwait. The group of 20 Brazilian companies and sector organisations will also visit, until the 30th, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In Dubai, the companies on the mission and another 21 Brazilian companies will exhibit at the Big 5 Show, which should generate US$ 33 million in business.
The Pernambuco State Gypsum Industry Union (Sindusgesso) and the Civil Construction Industry Association of Northwestern Paraná are two of the organisations to participate in the trade delegation that the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency and the Arab Brazilian Chamber are going to promote to Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar starting next Sunday. The representatives of Sindusgesso are going to proceed with talks for the establishment of a joint venture i
The statement was made by the ambassador of the Arab country in the Brazilian capital Brasília, Yousuf Ali Al Usaimi, alluding to the opportunities that Brazilian companies might find in the civil construction field. The Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency will promote a mission to the Gulf from the 18th to the 30th of the current month.
Induscabos, a producer of electric flexes and cables from the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, wants to enter the Arab market after participating in the trade delegation that the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion agency are going to promote to the region this month. The company products are for low- and medium-tension.
