Shopping centres obtained 71 billion reals (US$ 38.3 billion) in revenues from sales in Brazil last year. There was growth of 9% over 2008 and 16 new units were inaugurated.
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In the state of Acre, wheat middling is replaced with cassava or rice for cooking kibbeh. The food is named ‘quebe’ and is successful in the region, which has a strong presence of Arab immigrants.
The industry’s revenues from foreign trade remained stable in January compared with the same month of 2009, but grew 28.8% in terms of volume. Exports totalled 17.5 million pairs.
Exports from Brazil to the League of Arab States rose 25.6% in January, as against the same month in 2009, after having dropped for some months last year. The tendency for 2010 is for growth.
The volume of recoverable oil found by the company in the Santos Basin is estimated at 25 million barrels. Production at the site should start before the end of the year.
The figure was disclosed by the Central Bank. The year-to-date sum of dollar inflow and outflow is positive by nearly US$ 3 billion.
A bulletin issued by the Confederation of Industries today shows revenues in December 2009 exceeded by 0.2% the results for September 2008, which preceded the worsening of the international crisis.
The Brazilian construction company should provide services to Irtibaat consortium, competing for expansion, financing, operation and maintenance of a highway. The group competes with another two.
The organisation plans to expand its operation with the establishment of committees. One of them should attract Arab capital to Brazil and take Brazilian investment to the Arab world.
The US$ 172 million negative balance last week was the result of exports of US$ 2.928 billion and imports of US$ 3.1 billion, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Automobile manufacturing dropped by 3.7% in Brazil in January, compared with December last year. A total of 243,000 units were made.
The industry posted US$ 3.4 billion in revenues in December, representing growth of 0.6% over the same month of 2008. Annual revenues, however, decreased by 18%.
Over seven years, the country went from 5,000 to 10,000 kilometres of pipelines. Yet another one will be inaugurated this Wednesday: Cabiúnas-Reduc III, South America’s largest in diameter.
The number of passenger arrivals at Brazilian airports last year was the largest ever recorded by the country’s Airport Infrastructure Company. Domestic arrivals totalled 56 million.
