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.
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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.
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 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.
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.
This was one of the main conclusions of the seminar on business opportunities between the two countries, which took place yesterday in Tunis. For the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Antonio Sarkis Jr., Brazil may sell more foodstuff, furniture, medicines, building materials, vehicles and plastics. Tunisia in turn may offer more foodstuff, textile products, electric cables and mechanical equipment.
The largest furniture fair in the Middle East began yesterday in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Four companies connected to the Brazilian High-End Furniture Manufacturers Association (Abimad) received orders that may generate up to US$ 200,000. The stand organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce was visited by Dubai Crown Prince Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Rich in oil, but lacking in a series of fields, the country shows opportunities in the areas of construction and exports of products such as foodstuff and capital goods. The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, was in Sudan during the weekend to participate in an Arab-European economic forum.
From today until Wednesday, a group of Brazilian officials and entrepreneurs will be at the capital city of the Arab country to discuss actions for bringing Brazil and Tunisia closer together. They will participate at the fourth reunion of the Business Council of the two countries and discuss the establishment of a partnership in the shoes and leather sector.
Thirty-eight companies and associations from the country will participate at Index, the largest furniture fair in the Middle East, until next Saturday, in the Emirates. The Brazilian space, which covers an area of 850 square metres, almost double the size last year, was organised by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Brazilian Furniture Industry Association.
