The Syrian minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Amer Lutfi, made a proposal on Thursday during a visit to the Economic Development Secretariat of the State of São Paulo. At the Fiesp, he discussed the economic reforms that are in progress in his country and said he would prepare a list with the ideas of Syrian businessmen for joint investment.
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Agência Sebrae* Fortaleza – Around 30 companies from the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará are going to participate in the Cape Verde International Fair (FIC), to take place between November 16 and 20. The companies will count on the support of the Ceará state Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae), the State Government,
Judge Deirdre Hyde, from Abu Dhabi, is going to participate in the National Arabian Horse Exhibition, scheduled for November 10 to 15 in the city of Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo. Members of the Saudi royal family are also expected.
The company, a maker of taps, mixers, showers and bathroom fittings, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, is going to participate in the Big 5 Show, the largest fair in the civil construction sector in the Middle East, to take place in the United Arab Emirates. The company hopes to have good acceptance of products that help economize water.
Brasília Export, established in the Brazilian capital in 2002, wants to sign a contract with a local distributor to return to sales to the Arab market. The partnership may be signed during the Index, the sector fair that is going to take place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, between November 28 and December 02.
Exports by company Pegada (Footprint in Portuguese) to Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman and the United Arab Emirates grew 120% in four years. The company ships 20% of its daily production of 5,000 shoes abroad. As the company target is to increase sales by 10% in 2006, they are going to invest in participation in foreign fairs, like Motexha, in Dubai.
The Brazilian government is going to promote between November 20 and 22 a business mission to Algeria. The objective is to reduce the trade balance deficit with the Arab country, which reached US$ 1.8 billion in the first nine months of 2005. Large companies like Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and Randon, a maker of trailers and semi-trailers, have already confirmed their presence in the delegation.
Abirochas is going to participate in the Big 5 Show, the largest construction material fair in the Middle East, to take place in the United Arab Emirates in November. According to the president of the organization, the Arab market has potential to import the products. "It is a promising market with high buying power," stated Sérgio Azeredo.
So as to stimulate exports to the Middle East and North Africa, industries in the furniture hub in Arapongas, in the interior of the state of Paraná, are going to participate in the Index fair, in Dubai. Eighteen companies connected to the Conex-Furniture Brasil consortium, plus companies Moval and Poquema, have already confirmed presence at the fair.
Ruette Spice, an exporter from the city of Campinas, in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, supplies black pepper and clove to Arab countries like Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Mauritania and Lebanon. The company works exclusively with the foreign market and traded 7,400 tonnes of pepper and 2,200 tonnes of clove in 2004.
Laura Marchi developed rings and necklaces using Brazilian stones to exhibit at Jewellery Arabia, the fair to take place in Bahrain, in November. This will be the first time that Deca Comercial, which owns brand Laura Marchi, is going to participate in a fair in the Arab world.
Accompanied by businessmen, the minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, is going to be in the Arab country between November 20 and 22. This week the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) is going to organize a preparatory workshop for the trip.
The first business of the Jaci furniture factory in the Middle East took place in 2003, but sales to the region only took off after participation in Index, the furniture fair in the Emirates, last year. The company is therefore going to participate in the fair again in November this year, and it hopes to multiply exports.
Estobel, a maker of sofas and armchairs, exports 7% of production to the countries in the Mercosur and Central America and to Portugal and Greece. The company target is to increase foreign sales to around 20%. One of the strategies is participation in the Index furniture fair, to take place in the United Arab Emirates, in November.
