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.
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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.
This statement is by Mohamed Fahmy Ibrahim, Public Relations of Cairo International Fair, in which Brazilian companies and associations are participating. According to him, Brazil may grow on the Egyptian market if it occupies an intermediary position between European industries, which make quality products at high prices, and Asian companies, with low quality and prices.
National industries participating in Cairo Intentional Fair, which began on Sunday, are optimistic about the meetings that have taken place. Tangará, a maker of powdered milk, has already made around 25 contacts. Starrett, a maker of saws, will have a meeting today with an Egyptian distributor in the area.
In the first two days of Cairo International Fair, 50 commercial contacts were made at the Brazilian stand, organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. The Abiec promoted yesterday a promotional barbecue at the Egyptian capital.
A delegation with officials in the civil aviation sector from the Arab country was in Brazil between the 15th and 18th of March to see the Brazilian airports. Sudan plans on building four new airports.
The company NY Looks, based in the city of Mogi Guaçu, in the interior of São Paulo, SE Brazil, invested US$ 778,000 in the new unit, created in partnership with the Egyptian company International Projects & Investment. With a production capacity of 70,000 units per day, the plant produces hair gels and creams.
Apart from companies Tangará and Starrett do Brasil, the stand organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce will also include organizations that represent the meat sector in the country. The multisector fair, which begins on Sunday, is one of the most important in North Africa.
Egyptian lawyer Abdel Hamid Mamdouh, director of Trade at the Service Division at the WTO, is one of the international authorities participating in the World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs, in São Paulo. Yesterday, at the opening of the event, he discussed the opportunities that globalisation presents to young entrepreneurs.
This was the value invested last year by investors from Saudi Arabia in the international financial market. For the head of the Brazilian National Association of Financial Market Institutions, Paulo Sampaio, who participated in the mission to the Arab country during the weekend, it is possible to attract Saudi capital to Brazilian securities in the medium term.
J.Macêdo, from the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará, is the second largest mill in Brazil and produces an ample line of food products. The group also has factories of electric transformers and paint and had revenues of R$ 1.1 billion (US$ 517 million at current exchange rates) in 2005. Despite the size, only now has the company decided to start exporting in a continuous manner.
