O Casulo Feliz (The Happy Cocoon), which started with a wooden distaff and production of six kilograms of thread every month, currently produces 2,000 kilograms a month and employs 140 people, all residents of a poor neighbourhood of the city of Maringá, in the state of Paraná. The company already exports silk thread and finished products, among them carpets and curtains, to Spain, Portugal, Italy and Argentina. The company owner recently travelled to Morocco and offered the products to business
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Graduated in mathematics and the production supervisor of a mining company in the city of Cajati, in the Ribeira Valley, in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, José Amado Alves, is after investors to produce the flour. He has already transformed various fruit into flour, among them banana, guava, apple, pineapple, paw-paw and passion fruit. The process consists of dehydrating, drying and grinding the peel or the pulp of the fruit, or both together. The flour is colourful and tast
The minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, was invited by his Egyptian counterpart, Rachid Mohamed Rachid. The business event, one of the most important in the region, will take place in March and will have a Brazilian stand sponsored by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and by the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency. Also in March, Rachid may come to Brazil accompanied by businessmen from his country.
Based in the city of Frankfurt, in Germany, the company has four branches and 15 subsidiaries, apart from 49 representation offices on four continents. In 2004, the group had revenues of 364 million Euros and organized 110 fairs. Messe Frankfurt has been on the market for 750 years.
The Brazilian company is going to participate in the Idex fair, turned to the defence sector, for the third time. The event will take place in Abu Dhabi between February 12 and 17. There, the company is going to present the Super Tucano, a turboprop for training and light attack and their light aerial, land and maritime vigilance jets.
The event, which took place in São Paulo last week, gathered together buyers from 22 countries, amongst them Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – Brazilian shoe manufacturers will start in February the activities of the Brazilian Footwear, programme for the promotion of exports in the sector, planned for this year. From the 6th to 8th there will be the showroom for Brazilian Shoes, in Argentina, and from the 5th to 8th the
Research carried out by the World Economic Forum with more than 40 companies show that nine in ten business leaders consider that the public-private partnerships should have some participation, if not the main role, in surpassing challenges facing development. Brazil was mentioned as one of the most important emerging markets in this scenery.
The designer develops articles inspired on her trips around the world. The theme of one of her last collections is Morocco. Despite not being an Arab descendant, Adriana identifies herself with the Moroccan culture and travels to the country about three times a year. "I always say that my soul is Moroccan," she said. The Brazilian has just set up a showroom in London, and it should help increase sales to the Arab countries. Among those who appreciate her jewellery are top models like Gisele Bünd
Rimco International is to represent the Brazilian Global Guiders in the Arab countries as of March. The company from the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the southeastern Brazilian state that goes by the same name, was founded two years ago and exports from wood and refrigerators to coffee. The sales are turned exclusively to the Arab countries. The activities, however, are only beginning. Last year the company sold US$ 250,000 in goods. This year they expect to trade more than US$ 300,000.
One of the five largest companies in the shoe sector in the world, Azaléia is going to inaugurate its seventh unit on the foreign market this year, the first in an Arab country. The person responsible for the store, in Saudi capital Riyadh, will be the company representative in the Arab country. According to Paulo Santana, Azaléia marketing director, the new brand released by the company yesterday, Funny, which is turned to pre-teens, should also be sold to the Arabs, who have been purchasing pr
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.
