The company already exports on average 15,000 tonnes of chicken to the region every month, around 40% of total exports. Yesterday the company main plant, in the city of Montenegro, close to Rio Grande do Sul state capital Porto Alegre, was visited by the group of Arab ambassadors who are in the state. The meeting should generate a series of new deals.
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Between January and August, shipping from the state to the Middle East and North Africa has already generated US$ 337 million, against US$ 184 million in the same period last year. The intention of the government and of local companies is to further increase this trade. This is so true that Thursday this week there will be, in state capital Porto Alegre, a meeting between 11 Arab ambassadors and businessmen from the state.
Agência Brasil Rio – The director of Exploration and Production at Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, Guilherme Estrella, reports that the company expects to have its best second half ever with average daily production at 1.57 million barrels and a peak of over 1.7 million barrels daily. "That will be a record high in Petrobras
Company sales to the Middle East and North Africa rose after they started prospecting the market, around one year ago. Most of the purchases in the region are made for Ramadan. Garoto produces 30,000 tonnes of chocolate a year and exports 30% of production to over 50 countries.
The Brazil-Arab News Agency celebrates its first anniversary. Created by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) with the intention of promoting trade initiatives between Brazil and the Arab countries, the site has become an important source of information for Arab businessmen who export to the region. In the month of August, ANBA registered 19,980 hits, 15% more than in the previous month.
Ashraf El-Attal, coordinator of the Brazil-Egypt Business Council and Brazilian Honorary Consul in Alexandria, recounts that the trade balance between the two countries is unfavourable towards the Arab country. For him, it is important to promote more Egyptian products on the Brazilian market.
Abdessalem Loued is a member of the Brazil-Tunisia Business Council and a director of Lexi Olive Oil, one of the main olive oil producers and exporters in the Arab country. He participated in the 34th Expo Abras, a fair in the supermarket sector that finished yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil, and he spoke to ANBA.
The company, a traditional chicken supplier to the Middle East, should start selling greater added value products, including sausages and hamburgers, next year. They will be made with halal chicken so as to answer to religious demands. Perdigão also announced yesterday (14), during Expo Abras, investment of around US$ 82.5 million in the construction of an agro-industrial complex in the midwestern state of Goiás.
There was an optimistic ring to the speeches today (13) at the opening of the supermarket trade show in Rio de Janeiro, in relation to Brazilian economy and increase in sales.
