The Brazilian food industry, which produces meats and dairy products, exports to nine Arab countries and sees in the region a market that is becoming more and more promising. The fair, which begins today, in Dubai, is the largest in the food sector in the Middle East.
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Omani group Khimji Ramdas signed a US$ 30,000 order with company Niroflex during the Abimad Fair, which ends in São Paulo today. Group representative Praveen Kapoor visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber offices on Friday, together with another importer, Mohammad Qatoush, from Kuwaiti company Areek.
In total, 23 companies and sector organizations are going to participate in the fair, the largest in the food sector in the Middle East. Gulfood is going to take place in Dubai between February 19 and 22. This will be the first time that three associations – the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association, the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association and the Brazilian Fruit Institute – are going to exhibit at the event, in partnership with the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agenc
Mac Design has 26 items, among them armchairs, tables and chairs for external environments, in six houses in a condominium in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The project developed by Emaar Properties will have 10,000 houses. The Brazilian company is awaiting new orders.
The GPS company, which controls food manufacturers Sasse and Bretzke, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, willl own an office and a warehouse in the United Arab Emirates, aimed at facilitating trade with the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The company is willing to conquer up to eight new markets in the Arab world.
Brazilian companies participating in the Abimad 2007 fair, which ended yesterday in São Paulo, received order from buyers based in Dubai and Jordan. Dining tables and chairs, racks, coffee tables and decorative objects were the main products ordered. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce participated in the event.
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.
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.
