Industries from the country sold a 90% greater volume of chewing gum to the Arab countries between January and November this year, when compared to the same months last year. Brazil shipped 647 tonnes of chewing gum to 14 Arab nations. The Arab appreciation for sweeter products is one of the factors generating the increase in consumption of the Brazilian product.
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Brazilian jewel and gem producers should have revenues of US$ 766 million from exports up to the end of this year. The value means an increase of 3.3% over 2004, when the sector had revenues of US$ 741 million on the foreign market. Domestic companies are investing in design to add value to new products.
The carmaker is going to build a 20-storey business building in the Arab country and wants to receive offers from Brazilian construction companies. Representatives of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Brazilian ambassador in Qatar, Sérgio Caldas Mercador Abi-Sad, met yesterday in Doha with executives of an organization responsible for hiring companies to execute the project.
The importance of investing in the Middle East and North Africa, as a way of helping emerging countries in the region, was the object of talks during the Arab Business Forum, which began yesterday, in Doha. Kuwait, for example, has invested US$ 30 billion in six Arab countries since 2000. Around 1,000 people, among them representatives of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, are participating in the forum.
The theme will be the main topic at the 9th Arab Business Forum, which takes place between tomorrow and Wednesday, in Doha, capital of Qatar. Some 600 participants are expected, amongst businessmen and political officials. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce will be represented at the meeting by the secretary general, Michel Alaby, and director Mustapha Abdouni.
Company Casas Paraná, from the southern Brazilian state of Curitiba, started selling low-income houses to Angola in 1997 and is currently sending high standards holiday houses to the African country. The company plans now include entry into new foreign markets.
A city in the west of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná intends to establish in its outskirts factories to transform agricultural produce. Three companies have already announced that they will invest US$ 17 million in the construction of plants: Lecibrás, wheat mill Moinhos de Trigo do Paraná and meat packing plant Frangobrás. The state and the city of Campo Mourão provide incentives to companies interested in establishing units there.
This is the forecast for the next 12 months. The 38 Brazilian companies that participated in the largest furniture and decoration fair in the Middle East made 2,500 commercial contacts. The fair, which took place in Dubai, ended on Friday and Brazilian company presence was organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, the Brazilian Furniture Industry Association (Abimóvel) and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex).
The group made up of seven companies that are members of the Brazilian High-End Furniture Manufacturers Association (Abimad) is going to ship over 15 containers of products to the Arab market. The deals were closed during the Index, the largest furniture and decoration sector fair in the Middle East.
Hélcio Hernandes, representative of Kofar, which manufactures steel structures for constructions, and of Astic, association of companies in the sector, participated in the mission headed by the Brazilian minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Furlan to the Arab country. The company is also negotiating partnerships with local companies to meet the market in North Africa.
The first step for a partnership between the two countries was taken yesterday, during the meeting between representatives of the Brazilian mission that was in Tunis and Habib Ben Yahia, advisor to the Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The idea is for companies in the Arab nations and Brazil to exploit together markets in the Mediterranean region.
Yet another company related to the Brazilian High-End Furniture Manufacturers Association (Abimad) closed deals at the fair taking place in Dubai. Mac Design received an order for 40 deck chairs from an importer in Jordan. Up until the end of the event, the company hopes to settle US$ 150,000 in contracts.
The government of the Arab country is going to open a bidding process for the sale of the Tunisian Lime Society (STC), company that acts since 1986 in the production of the substance used in civil construction. The company has an annual production capacity of 180,000 tonnes of hydraulic lime and 10,000 tonnes of quicklime.
The company Americanflex will export between 4,000 and 6,000 coloured dismountable armchairs to a shopkeeper in the United Arab Emirates. The order was made during the second day at the largest furniture fair in the Middle East, which goes on until Friday in Dubai.
