Ouro Verde Amazônia, a small company with a factory in Alta Floresta, in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, produces and trades organic products derived from Brazil nuts. After receiving organic certification from Ecocert, the company started contacts with the foreign market. The first shipments will be to France, Australia and Malaysia.
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The volume shipped by air rose from 2,200 tonnes in 2006 to 3,400 tonnes in 2007. To the Emirates, to which a direct flight from São Paulo was inaugurated, exports by air grew 169% and reached 2,000 tonnes.
Agência CNI* Porto Alegre – Industrial activity in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul grew 6.2% in 2007 and was the fourth greatest in 16 years of the Rio Grande do Sul state Industrial Performance Index (IDI-RS) developed by the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Fiergs).
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – General Motors Brazil is going to establish a second shift and to hire 44 new employees for their Industrial and Commercial Automotive Complex in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. This information was disclosed by a spokesperson for the carmaker.
Exports totalled US$ 13 billion, imports stood at US$ 12 billion and bilateral trade was US$ 25 billion. All of the figures are the highest ever recorded for the month of January. The trade surplus, however, had a significant reduction.
A regional bulletin by the Brazilian Central Bank, disclosed in Curitiba, shows that in 2007 the region had low inflation, high credit, growing foreign trade and expanding job generation.
The Brazilian bank had net income of over 8 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 4.5 billion) in 2007, an increase of 58% over 2006, and a new record for the sector, which previously belonged to the state-owned Bank of Brazil. In Brazil, only oil company Petrobras and mining giant Vale do Rio Doce had already posted greater results.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Brazil stood at US$ 886 million last December, having totalled US$ 34.616 billion in 2007. FDI reached US$ 2.487 billion in December 2006, and US$ 18.782 billion in the whole of 2006. The data were disclosed today (28th) by the Brazilian Central Bank. The annual FDI
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Foreign sales of Brazilian products totalled US$ 3.284 billion last week, at a daily average value of US$ 656.8 million, whereas national purchases of foreign products stood at US$ 2.932 billion, at a daily average of US$ 586.4 million. The balance of trade ran a surplus of US$ 352 million between
A group of artisans from the city of Samambaia, in the Federal District of Brazil, where the country capital is located, uses leaves from the savannah, sisal and crochet to make handbags, panels, curtains, stoles, jerseys and skirts. The articles are successful in Brazil and in countries like the United States, Italy, France, Spain and New Zealand.
The discovery was made in Santos Basin, where the state-owned company found Tupi field, one of the largest oil reserves in the country, in 2007. Although there are not yet exact dimensions regarding the production capacity of the new area, named Jupiter, it is already believed that the country may reach self-sufficiency in gas.
In the market for three years, stylist Renata Mahaz, from the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, has already won the markets in São Paulo (SE), Brasília (MW), Manus (N) and Aracaju (NE) with her dresses. Now, her target is to take her creations to the foreign market. The stylist, who visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber offices yesterday, will have a showroom in São Paulo until Friday.
For the first time, the sector sold more than 1 billion litres in a single year. Revenues totalled 4.7 billion reals (US$ 2.6 billion). The civil construction boom, the record-high vehicle production and the growth of Brazilian industry as a whole contributed to boost paint sales.
