North American company MDC is going to open up to July this year a shop in the United Arab Emirates and will show upholstered furniture and other products made by companies Mannes, from the state of Santa Catarina, and Artesian, from Paraná, both states in southern Brazil. Representatives of both companies are participating in the Abimad 2007 fair, which also includes a stand by the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
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Retailers from Arab countries who are participating in the Brazilian Contemporary Furniture & Home Décor Exhibition in São Paulo believe that they are going to close deals. The fair will be open to the public today and will end on Monday. In total, 15 buyers from the Middle East were invited to the event.
The government of the Arab country reduced the import tariffs on a series of semi-manufactured products and consumer goods, like household appliances, textile products and garments, and inputs for the food industry. The measure may represent new business opportunities for Brazilian exporters.
Postcards, school material and diaries featuring the ant Smilingüido and The Cherub Crew started being exported to Egypt last year. The characters are the themes of printed products manufactured by the Light & Life Publishers Corp., based in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. The products are known in Brazil for their messages of love and friendship.
Company Iso Marble, one of the main Egyptian producers of marble, closed orders with six buyers on the first day of Vitória Stone Fair. Eight companies from the Arab country are exhibiting at the 23rd International Marble and Granite Fair, which began yesterday in Espírito Santo, in southeastern Brazil.
In total, 34 Brazilian companies in the medical and hospital sector participated in a fair that took place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, last week. According to the executive director at the Abimo, Hely Audrey Maestrello, over 2,500 contacts were made, which may generate US$ 11.23 million in business over the next 12 months.
A delegation of seven Egyptian companies in the ornamental stone sector is going to participate in Vitória Stone Fair, to begin tomorrow and end on Friday, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. This is the second time that the fair is going to count on an Egyptian pavilion.
Sudanese authorities are contemplating the possibility of sending a delegation to Brazil to have a closer look at the Brazilian industry, and also to offer products manufactured in the Arab country. The information was given to representatives of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, who travelled to Sudan to attend the 24th Khartoum International Fair.
Construction materials are among the products sought by importers at the 24th Khartoum International Fair, in which the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce has a stand. The Arab country is developing several projects in the field, including the Araak City, a residential condominium that already has 350 houses, and will have another 400.
Afra Shopping Centre is the greatest shopping complex in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Apart from spaces for leisure, it also includes a supermarket that imports products from various regions in the world. According to the operations coordinator at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Rodrigo Solano, who is at Khartoum International Fair, the supermarket may be a good site for Brazilians to offer their products.
The Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association is going to participate in two events in the emirate in February. One of them is food sector fair Gulf Food and the other is a workshop with business roundtables and barbecues with Brazilian cattle beef with halal certification.
Located in the city of São José dos Pinhais, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, the industry, which has two thousand shops all around Brazil, wants to open another six establishments and five kiosks in the Middle East in 2007. They already have three shops in Saudi Arabia. In 2006, O Boticário revenues with sales to the region grew 20%.
An importer from Beirut, from store Al Houssami, and another from Dubai, from Etoile, are going to accompany the week of parades in the southeastern Brazilian capital of São Paulo, scheduled to begin tomorrow and end on January 29. They were invited by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency and the Brazilian Clothing Designers Association to visit the showroom of some Brazilian factories that are going to exhibit their collections to foreign buyers.
