The government of the Arab country opened the sector to private exploration and the president of state-owned mining company Maaden, Abdallah Dabbagh, was in Brazil to begin negotiations with domestic companies. In an interview to ANBA, he said that talks are promising. The privatisation involves four exploration areas: precious metals, phosphates, bauxite and industrial minerals.
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Group GPS, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, is going to send a trader on a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Egypt. He is going to seek distributors for products like lollipops, coffee, chocolate drinks and powdered drinks. This year the company intends to promote four trips to the Middle East and North Africa with the objective of guaranteeing entry into markets in the region.
According to information obtained by Brazilian company Plasvale, which is participating at the 23rd Khartoum International Fair, the Sudanese government offers benefits on the imports of products made with local raw materials. Plasvale is going to evaluate the acquisition of polyethylene and polypropylene from Sudan. The company is using the Arab Brazilian Chamber stand at the fair to promote their products.
The executives of the great state-owned companies in Saudi Arabia who are visiting Brazil started conversations on partnerships to ensure the supply of inputs for steelworks in the Arab country and petrochemical products for the Brazilian industry. Yesterday they went to the Arab Brazilian Chamber and spoke also of opening certain sectors of the Saudi economy to foreign investments.
Omar Hassan Al-Bashir was at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce stand during the opening of the exhibit yesterday, in the capital city of the Arab country. According to the Brazilian consul in Khartoum, Mustafá Abbadi, who received the Sudanese president, the local government is interested in a greater participation of Brazil in investments in the country.
The meeting is going to take place between February 28 and March 02 in Dubai. Abdul Salam Al Madani, a director at Index, the company that organizes the event, participated in the 24th International Dentistry Congress in São Paulo, which ends today. According to him, the Middle East has 98,000 dentists who need to import all kinds of equipment and material.
Executives from Dubai Properties, the real estate development company, are in São Paulo (SE Brazil) to promote undertakings that are being developed in the emirate. According to Fahad Al Gergawi, a company director, enterprises to be built over the next 10 years should generate a turnover of US$ 110 billion. With the sector expanding significantly, Dubai also offers opportunities to construction companies.
Four executives from important companies from Saudi Arabia in the sectors of investment, mining and the petrochemical industry should arrive in the country on Sunday. They are going to visit 11 companies in four capitals, as well as two banks and the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. The group also has meetings scheduled with the Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, and with the country minister of Mines and Energy, Silas Rondeau.
Brazilian shoe factories sought inspiration in the exuberant style of Queen Victoria, who governed the United Kingdom as from 1937 to 1901, to create the autumn/winter collection. The shoes that started being offered by industries in Brazil to retailers include shine and stones, as well as dark and strong colours. Boots should be the great success of the season.
The agreement that allowed for the sales of a series of products of animal origin was signed this week by government representatives of the two countries. With this was opened a new market for the Brazilian companies. According to the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, shipments should start already in the first quarter of the year.
Couromoda, the International Shoes, Sportsgoods and Leathergoods Fair that presents the autumn/winter shoe collection of Brazilian factories begins today at Anhembi Exhibition Centre, in São Paulo, the largest business centre in Brazil. The organizers of the event hope that 63,000 visitors, among them 4,500 foreign retailers. The fair will go on up to Thursday and will bring together the creations of 3,000 Brazilian brands of shoes and artefacts.
Clothes and garments for babies made by producer Torcida Baby – Baby Fan, from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, with the colours and logos of Brazilian football teams, may reach the market in the United Arab Emirates this year. The company was invited to exhibit its products in the office set up by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex), in Dubai. The company is licensed by 17 of the main teams in the country and already exports to Germany, France and Italy.
Couromoda, international shoe fair in Brazil, starts next Monday in the city of São Paulo. About 1,200 exhibitors are going to present the shoes they created for the cold season. The fair organisers expect the visit of 4,500 importers from 70 countries.
