The company owns some of Brazil’s best-known coffee brands, like Pilão and Café do Ponto. Its Brazilian unit ships product to ten different countries and is about to start selling to the Arab market.
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A commercial and cultural event will take place at Yas Mall from February 22 to 25, 2018 to celebrate Brazil-United Arab Emirates relations.
Such is the estimate from the organizers of the food industry expo which ended this Thursday in Abu Dhabi. The Brazilian pavilion in the event had backing from the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
The bulk of domestic demand is met by foreign-made product, with some 52,700 tons imported from January to October. Arab countries account for less than 1% of this.
The possibility that the revocations of tariffs, detailed in the Mercosur-Egypt free trade agreement, can be implemented sooner, was discussed in a forum at the Arab Chamber this Friday.
A delegation from the Arab country is holding a seminar on the Mercosur agreement this Friday in São Paulo. On Thursday evening, the group met with Arab Chamber’s directors.
The agency will work alongside the embassies’ trade offices in the development of sector projects. In a review of 2017, Apex’s president said that Apex-supported companies accounted for 28% of Brazilian exports.
Brazilian medical technology association Abimo and export promotion agency Apex-Brasil have renewed their commercial promotion agreement, with plans including going to four expos in Dubai, as well as having a mission to the region in 2018.
The Dubai construction industry show featured five enterprises from Brazil at a stand organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. They discussed deals and made promising contacts.
The group will be in São Paulo on December 7 and 8, and will attend a seminar and business matchmaking at the Arab Chamber. They want to explore the opportunities created by the free trade agreement signed with Mercosur.
Five Brazilian companies are taking part in the construction expo in Dubai in the Arab Chamber’s stand. PPA has made some promising contacts to go into the Arab countries and Tigre is trying to gain other markets in the region.
Oman Cement Company wants to attract companies that add innovations to a project in the country of the Arabian Peninsula. The company’s executives visited the Arab Chamber.
Six editors from Brazil took part in business matchmaking in Sharjah, UAE, and earned USD 106,000 in sales of Brazilian books copyrights that will be published in Arabic.
Founded by Jorge Omati, who was born in Damascus, Syria, Tecidos Fiama has begun a project to import yarn and export fabrics to Egypt.

