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.
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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.
Yesterday at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works, Brazilian businessmen on a mission to the Gulf got to know some of the projects that the country’s government aims to implement in up to ten years. According to Ministry representatives, Brazilians can be suppliers to the projects, provided that they have a local partner.
Daniel Schnorr, a consultant at the Brazilian Association of Shoe and Leather Components Industries (Assintecal), the organization that represents factories of leather inputs and shoes, is going to visit companies in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Sudan between the end of February and beginning of March. The intention is to find new business for Brazilian industries in the sector and to invite the Arabs to participate in a sector fair in Brazil in April.
A partner at the International Company Trade, Anis Kanzari, from Tunisia, is currently in Brazil to have a closer look at the local shoe industry. Kanzari is one of the foreign visitors attending Couromoda, a trade show for the shoe sector being held in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo. Before coming to Brazil, Kanzari had already bought a container of shoes made in the notheastern Brazilian capital of Recife.
Store owners from seven Arab countries will participate in the Brazilian Contemporary Furniture and Home Décor fair, to be held between February 9th and 12th at the Imigrantes Exhibition Centre. The fair will bring together 174 exhibitors and 50 importers from various countries.
To the organization, among the factors boosting trade with the Arabs are commercial promotion events, like trade delegations and participation in fairs. This year the Chamber is studying the possibility of participating in 16 fairs in Brazil and in the Arab world and in four trade missions.
Furniture company Móveis WW, based in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and with more than fifty years of existence, wants to sell dining room and bedroom furniture to Arab and African countries. This year, the company has already sold furniture to Angola.
The largest shoe and leather product fair in Latin America and the fourth largest in the world, the International Shoes, Sportsgoods and Leathergoods Fair (Couromoda) is going to open the season for shoe business, accessories and garment manufacturing in Brazil. The fair is scheduled to take place between January 15 and 18 at the Anhembi exhibition centre, in the southeastern Brazilian capital of São Paulo.
The Amazon Hands company, from Tocantins, manufactures handicraft products, such as purses and lampshades, using certified wood. The pieces have been exported to France, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The work generates income and development for the region.
Five craftsmen from the outskirts of São Paulo make a living out of the art of marquetry, using pieces of wood found on the streets, and donations from furniture stores and carpentry shops. The result is boxes, lampshades, and even tables that are already for sale in the city. In addition to selling their pieces, the group has created a workshop to form new artisans in the community.
