Ceramic tile manufacturer Gabriella Revestimentos Cerâmicos, based in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, specialises in decorative items such as listels, fillets and mosaics. It already sells to customers all over the Americas and in South Africa. Now, the company will take part in the mission to the Gulf organised by the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency.
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In November, the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency will take more than 20 Brazilian businessmen in the field of construction material on a trade mission to Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Ongoing projects in the Gulf region total US$ 1 trillion. The trip will end in the Big 5 Show, the main fair for the sector in the Middle East.
This week, a group of artisans from the city of Canoas introduced to the public their first collection of purses, lighting fixtures, costume jewellery, and panels made of petroleum residue. The pieces are manufactured using materials that otherwise would be disposed of by the oil industry, such as rubber.
The Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency and the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq) are going to invest 17.2 million Brazilian reais in a new project for commercial promotion of Brazilian capital goods. The agreement, the 16th of the kind, forecasts a series of activities in Brazil and abroad and the objective is to expand the sales of participating companies to US$ 142 million.
In an interview to ANBA, the manager of the OrganicsBrazil Project, Ming Liu, speaks about the potential of the emirate for Brazilian exports of organic products and about the results of the program, established in 2005 with the objective of promoting products free of pesticides and chemicals on the foreign market.
The line of organic cookies launched by brand Native at Biofach Latin America 2007, is going to be added to the coffees, juices and chocolate drinks produced by the main Brazilian producer and exporter of organic sugar. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon are among the 57 countries that imported products made by the company.
Biofach Latin America 2007, which began yesterday in São Paulo, confirms the rising trajectory of the organic sector, which has a turnover of US$ 40 billion a year worldwide. A space at the fair that is calling the attention of buyers and specialists is the Northeast & Savannah-Eco-Productive Communities, which includes investment from 14 Brazilian states.
This will be the fifth edition of the organic product fair in Brazil and it will count on 300 exhibitors from 12 countries. In the sidelines there will be the ExpoSustentat, the International Fair of Sustainable Goods. Among the highlights of Biofach is the OrganicsBrazil Project, established to promote national production abroad.
The president at the group, Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, said yesterday that, in addition to the flight between Dubai and São Paulo, the company might develop other businesses in the country, especially in the hotel and airport services fields.
The Association for the Development of Real Estate and Tourism in northeastern Brazil, which brings together construction companies operating in the region, intends to organise a mission to the United Arab Emirates in order to attract investors. The value of apartments, hotels, and resorts currently under construction reaches 3 billion Brazilian reais (US$ 1.65 billion). Approximately two thirds of the capital invested is foreign, according to the organisation.
The statement was made by the secretary-general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby. The organisation conducted a survey to show the current Brazilian economic investment environment to Arab businessmen. Floating exchange rates, a regime of inflation targets, and the Growth Acceleration Programme of the federal government are among the main incentives for foreigners to invest in Brazil.
