Lafico, the company that takes care of the Libyan government investment abroad, is studying the establishment of a holding to prospect and administer business in the country. The state-owned company has already shown interest in applying funds in irrigation projects in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia and signed an accord with construction company Norberto Odebrecht for the execution of a viability study regarding the enterprise.
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Maringá Soldas has already shipped cylinder heads for tractors to the Arab country twice and will ship again this month. The Arab market offers a great potential to the sector, stated Cássia Imai, a company director who also sells to the United Arab Emirates and Syria. In November, the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) is going to promote Brazilian company participation in Saudi Motorshow, a sector fair that takes place in Saudi Arabia.
Producer Nazca, located in the city of Diadema, in greater São Paulo, has been exporting to the Arab market for three years. Among the products sold to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are strawberry, melon, paw-paw and peach scented shampoos, conditioners and creams, for the infant public.
Three importers from the Emirates and Jordan visited 11 furniture factories in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. They ordered five containers of products, for the value of US$ 50,000. For the next 12 months, at least another US$ 200,000 are expected.
Piloto, a company from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo that produces brakes and components for heavy-vehicle clutches, intends to establish direct contacts in the region and make exports regular. The company, established in 1953, has been selling on the foreign market for over 30 years.
Company Travel Comfort Amenities, from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, participated in the international fair for the first time. Horeca is turned to the hotel sector and ended last Friday, in Beirut. The company, which participated in the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) stand at the fair, made around 70 contacts, some with large hotel chains, at the fair.
In two years the sector will invest US$ 1.7 million to participate in international fairs, qualify and certify the products. Brazil currently occupies the eighth place in the ranking of shrimp producers worldwide and has France, Spain, the United States, Holland, Japan and Portugal as the main importers.
Charles Rizk recalled yesterday, during his visit to the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) stand at the Horeca, the hotel product and service fair, that Brazil has a great presence of Lebanese immigrants. Company Travel Comfort Amenities, a maker of products for personal hygiene for hotels, based in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo, made 11 contacts on the first day of the fair.
The 16 medical and hospital product producers from Egypt, who participated in the Hospitalar fair in São Paulo, believe that the Brazilian market has potential to import their products. They intend to return next year, not only to export. They also want to establish joint ventures with Brazilian companies.
Brand Patachou, signed by stylist Tereza Santos, and female shoe producer Spatifilus plan to establish partnerships with local distributors to expand their exports to the Arab countries. Gem and jewel industry Empire, in turn, believes that the Jewellery Arabia fair, to take place in Bahrain, may be a good start for the first contact with the region.
Fahion Rio presents the 2005-2006 spring/summer collections (for the southern hemisphere). The event began on Tuesday (14) and ends on Sunday (19), in the capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. In the sidelines of the parades, there is a jewellery exhibition, where jewels made by 26 designers are being shown, and a business fair.
The president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB), Antonio Sarkis Jr., presented yesterday, to businessmen from Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, the sectors in which the Arabs are potential suppliers, among them cotton, fertilizers, gum Arabic and food products, like sardines. The secretary general of the organization, Michel Alaby, was in charge of showing economic figures about the 14 Arab countries that have diplomatic representation in Brazil.
The southeastern Brazilian state currently has 130 companies that export to the Arabs, but they want to expand this figure promoting missions to the Middle East. This information was provided yesterday by the president of the Fiemg, Robson Braga, during a meeting with Arab ambassadors who live in Brazil. They are in Belo Horizonte, the state capital, to learn about the economic potential of Minas Gerais. Yesterday they met authorities from the state like governor Aécio Neves and the mayor of Bel
