Businessman and designer Jorge Guimarães established brand J.Wlad in 2001,aimed at the foreign market, and currently exports 20% of production to the United Arab Emirates, England, the United States, Russia, Belgium and Japan. His shoes are different from others as they are embroidered with stones, strass and crystals.
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Factories in the region of Arapongas, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, participated in the furniture fair Index in 2005. Based on the contacts made, they forecast an 8% increase in shipments during the first semester of this year.
Agência Brasil Brasília – In an ongoing effort to expand trade with Central American countries and identify investment opportunities, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade is sending a commercial mission to Panamá, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras at the end of May. Some 50 business leaders will be part of an
Importers from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Syria are going to participate at the end of the month of May in business roundtables with Brazilian suppliers of sector products, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. The meetings, to include micro and small companies on the Brazilian side, should generate US$ 3 million in immediate business.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazilian industries will be able to count on a distribution centre in Portugal, in Europe, starting in May. The centre is an initiative by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex) and will be located in Lisbon, 20 kilometres away from the port and 15 kilometres away from
The group of Tunisians who participated in the Fimec, the shoe component sector fair that ended on Saturday (08), were surprised with the quality of the inputs produced in Brazil for production of shoes. Brazilian factories in the sector are scheduling a mission to the Arab country to follow through with the ties established.
The annual meeting of the Joint Arab-Foreign Chambers of Commerce ended yesterday in Saudi Arabia. To the secretary general of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, events like this make way for participation in business fairs and trade missions. He suggested greater exchange of information among the institutions located within and outside the Arab world.
Egyptian trading company Akbar Group intends to open, by the end of the year, an exhibition space for Brazilian raw material in Cairo. The company manager, Hesham Akbar, is participating in the Fimec leather and footwear sector fair after potential suppliers for the project.
Brazil should start selling components for shoes to the Tunisians after the Fimec, a fair in the leather and shoe sector that takes place in the city of Novo Hamburgo, in southern Brazil, and that includes the presence of four businessmen from the Arab country. This should be one of the results of an agreement for cooperation and closer commercial ties made official yesterday between business organizations from both nations.
The businessman Mustapha Abdelhedi, from Tunisia, started talking yesterday with a Brazilian leather producer about a partnership that involves supplying raw materials and joint exports. Mustapha is in Brazil to participate at the Fimec, fair of components for shoes and leather, which takes place in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
These are the events that will have participation of the Arab Brazilian Chamber. The news this year is Automechanika Gulf, a fair turned to the auto parts sector, to take place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Among the traditional fairs are the Fairs in Algiers and Damascus, which are multisector fairs, Index, of furniture, and Big 5 Show, of construction material.
This is the evaluation of the secretary general of the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, considering the performance of Brazilian companies that participated in the event. Slaughterhouses have strengthened their relations with clients, Tangará, which produces powdered milk, hopes to close deals with a large Egyptian company and Starret, a maker of saws, has hired a distributor.
Dairy product maker Tangará, which is participating in Cairo International Fair, visited the offices of one of the main dairy producers in Egypt and has perspectives of closing deals with the company. The shipment of samples has already been agreed. Saw producer Starret has also managed to find a distributor for company products in Egypt.
