Businesswoman from the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo creates a brand of T-shirts bearing slogans about respecting differences and the need for strengthening ties between Eastern and Western peoples. Claudia Saad seeks socially responsible ideas aimed at creating a better world.
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Around 15% of the revenues of Truss Hair Therapy, a maker of cosmetics, come from foreign sales. For 2008, the company plans to reach 30%. In less than one year operating on the foreign market, Truss has already won the United States, Angola and Ecuador. Currently, the company is negotiating with the United Arab Emirates.
Agência Brasil* Manaus – Starting next year, at least 40 micro and small companies based in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas should be directly benefited by funds of up to 150,000 Brazilian reais (US$ 82,000) each, for the development of technological innovation projects. A 6 million real (US$ 3.3 million) agreement was signed yesterday
The flow of foreign direct investment to the region reached US$ 60 billion in 2006, an increase of 44% over 2005. In North Africa, investment totalled US$ 23 billion, growth of 72%. Brazil, in turn, has become the 12th largest world investor. This information was disclosed yesterday by the Unctad.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – From January until September this year, 1.607 million formal job positions were created in Brazil. The number of hirings is second only to the figure recorded in the same period of 2004, which was 1.666 million. The information was taken from the report of the General Records Office for Employment and
Agência Brasil* Brasília – From January until September this year, 1.607 million formal job positions were created in Brazil. The number of hirings is second only to the figure recorded in the same period of 2004, which was 1.666 million. The information was taken from the report of the General Records Office for Employment and
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazilian exports totalled US$ 3.010 billion last week, a 9.6% drop as against the sales in the previous week. However, imports were much lower, reaching US$ 1.950 billion, with even greater reduction, of 31.82%. The values were disclosed today (15) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. The table
In the first nine months of this year, the total exported by the state of Paraná to the Middle East and North Africa grew 25%, rising from US$ 365.3 million to US$ 455.5 million. Paraná state imports from the region rose 315%.
This was the value of additional orders that the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer received in the third quarter of this year. With this, the company ended the month of September with orders of US$ 17.2 billion. This year, the company has already delivered 108 aircraft, mostly commercial.
