The exports manager and assistant at Buettner will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait in February and hopes to come back with new orders. The region represents 5% of the foreign sales made by the company, which exports 40% of their production to 40 countries. Located in Santa Catarina, Buettner manufactures 800 tonnes of products per month and employs 1,900 people.
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The factory from the city of Rio de Janeiro created the brand Orion to sell in countries where they do not have a licence to export the Aladdin products. M. Agostini manufactures and distributes thermos bottles of the Aladdin brand in Latin America. The brand Orion was created a year ago and is already sold in Europe and North America. In 2005 the focus will be the Arab market.
A group of artisans from the interior of northeastern Brazil who work with goat and cattle leather, have established a cooperative to join efforts and grow. Participation in fairs guarantees the sale of products to various states and the shipping abroad of the first samples. The Arab countries are also considered potential markets.
The Economic Development Secretariat of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo has created three programs to increase the number of companies that export, which currently total 8,400. These projects include sponsorship so that small exporters may participate in international events, a catalogue of products and companies and the organization of seminars.
In the first ten months of the year, the Port of Santos, the largest port in Brazil, located in the southeastern state of São Paulo, had a throughput of 57.5 million tonnes, a growth of 15.3% when compared to the same period in 2003. In the case of Paranaguá port, in the southern state of Paraná, throughput was 30 million tonnes. In the northeastern state of Pernambuco, cargo loaded and offloaded rose 12%. Throughput totalled 4.832 million tonnes in the ports of Suape and Recife, against 4.314 m
Galileia is one of the various examples, in Brazil, of small businesses that opened the doors to foreign trade. So as to answer to the demand, the company has doubled production in three years. Nowadays, 50% of all that the factory produces is destined to the foreign market.
The largest chain of language schools in Brazil has established a daring expansion plan for 2005. Wizard already has six franchisees on the foreign market, in Japan and the United States, and the plan is now to go to Europe and to the remaining countries in Latin America. Three franchises have already been opened in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina and they teach Portuguese and English. The target is to have at least 20 schools outside Brazil up to the end of next year.
Company Zen, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, exported 135,000 starter drives to the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, as well as Israel and Iran. The shipping of parts to the region represented around 1.65% of total company sales. The Zen target is to increase this percentage to 3% in 2005. The company is a national leader in the sector and exports to over 50 countries.
Fanem, the Brazilian leader in the neonatology sector, products for newly born babies like incubators and special cribs, is studying the installation of an assembly line in one of the 22 Arab countries. The intention is to simplify product sales in the Middle East and North Africa, the second largest market for the company on the foreign market, losing only to Latin America. Of all Brazilian export in the sector, 93% are credited to the company.
The Brazilian Agency for International Business represents companies in sectors such as food, cosmetics, slaughterhouses, and agriculture commodities when prospecting new markets for exports. The mineral water company Ouro Fino, for example, is represented by the agency and wishes to sell to the Arab market.
Various companies from Morocco that participated in the meeting with Brazilian companies on Friday, at the offices of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, want to establish joint-ventures to invest in the Arab country and in Brazil. Various contacts were made in various sectors, like tourism, agriculture, food industry and transport.
The leader of the delegation of Moroccan businessmen who visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) for a business roundtable, said that the trade relationship between the two countries should go beyond buying and selling. Mourad Cherif spoke to the group who attended the opening of the meeting about the fields that are growing in his country and that could take Brazilian investments. Amongst these are the tourism, telecommunications, construction and agriculture sectors.
Yesterday (25) Transpetro released the edict for the construction of 42 vessels. The tender is strategic for Brazil, which has a great demand for ships, and for Petrobras, which uses around 110 tankers, 60 rented from foreign companies. The tender is going to generate investment in shipyards and should revitalize the Brazilian naval industry. The companies have up to the end of January to deliver their proposals.
