For the seventh year running, magnate Alwaleed Bin Talal tops the ranking of richest Arabs published by ArabianBusiness.com. Of the 50 main Arab fortunes, 32 are Saudi.
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In the third week of the month, exports reached US$ 4.309 billion and imports, US$ 3.979 billion. The accumulated result in the year was US$ 1.776 billion.
Finance market analysts approached by the Central Bank of Brazil estimate economic growth of 7.61% for the country’s economy in 2010.
Ana Carolina Vaz made a need – nappies for her dog – into a business. The idea became a company, gained sustainability, and is now on the foreign market. Dog’s Care revenues grow 100% each year.
The city, whose port received thousands of immigrants, among them Arabs, grows at the rhythm of new oil discoveries, national and foreign investment and Petrobras works.
The Middle East accounted for US$ 4.3 billion, or 4.5% of the total. There is a perspective of growth for the whole of 2010.
Cocamar Industrial Cooperative, from Paraná, plans to double exports of industrialized products, like non-alcoholic drinks, next year. Target markets are Libya, the Emirates and Oman.
The figure shipped to the Arab world by companies that count on support from Apex, the government’s export and investment fostering agency, accounted for 41% of sales from the country to the region.
The discovery was made offshore, 140 kilometres away from state capital Vitória. The Brazilian company owns the concession to the well alongside the Norwegian Statoil.
Consultancy firm Serasa Experian pointed out that 85% of Brazilian entrepreneurs, out of 1,015 interviewees, hope for greater earnings in the first quarter next year.
The positive result is a consequence of people hired and dismissed from January until November. Last month, Rio de Janeiro was the state that had the most new jobs.
The embassy of Brazil to Beirut is going to promote a party at Ajami Square, on Sunday, at Beirut souk. The event should have Brazilian music and dance.
High commodity prices, including sugar, meats and ores, influenced the greater Brazilian export revenues to the Arab market. Up to November, the growth was 33%.
‘Na Senda das Noites,’ by Christiane Damien, will be released on Thursday (16th), in São Paulo. Evening will include a lecture by Mamede Mustafa Jarouche, translator of the Thousand and One Nights.
