Dubai – Company Al Ghurair Foods, in the Al Ghurair Investments group, from Dubai, is eyeing machinery from Brazil. To manage to increase its egg production capacity from 500,000 to 1.5 million a day, the business manager at the company, Firas Rabah, should visit poultry sector fair AveSui, which focuses on solutions and information for the poultry and pork sectors, to take place in April, in São Paulo.
"We already import maize, soy and wheat from Brazil. Now we want to learn more about the Brazilian machinery and equipment," said Rabah, who has a stand at the Gulfood, in hall 4, the same area in which the Brazilian pavilions at the fair in Dubai are. According to the manager, his main interest is in cages for the hens and in machinery to separate and pack the eggs.
Currently, the machinery of the seven units of Ghurair Foods is imported from the Netherlands and Belgium. Apart from eggs, the company produces instant noodles, soy oil, flour and animal feed, among others. The raw material is imported from several countries, like Argentina, the United States, Canada and Brazil.
With over 100 years on the market, the group is present in over 50 countries and employs around 20,000 people. With annual turnover of over US$ 1 billion, the group operates in several areas like banking, insurance, maritime shipment, electric and mechanical products, education, trading, building, cement, aluminium, energy and marble, among others.
Further business at the fair
On the second day of Gulfood, more Brazilian companies closed deals. Docile, in the sweet sector, closed a deal for the sale of one container with 25 tonnes of sweets, chewing gum and powdered drinks with a distributor in Syria. "This should be the first time we export to Syria," stated the company’s commercial director, Alexandre Heineck.
According to him, the group has already exported to Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, among the Arab nations. Around 20% of company revenues come from Exports. In the first two days of the fair, Docile has already made 60 contacts. The main objective at the event is to find a distributor for the Arab market.
Another company that closed orders on Tuesday (24) was Serlac, a trading company in Itambé group, in the dairy sector. According to the commercial manager at the trading company, André Campos, three orders were closed to Yemen, Libya and Sudan. Together, all three totalled 15 containers of powdered and evaporated milk. "We are expecting more clients, and they should certainly close new orders," said Campos.
The eggs of poultry farm Santo Antonio were also very successful at the fair. The company closed a deal to export a container with 1,248 boxes of eggs to Yemen. According to the financial director at the organisation, Aulus Assumpção, the company already has clients in three Arab countries, but this was a new contact. "He is also interested in importing a container a month," said the director. To him, the partnership between the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture in organisation of the stand was very good for the poultry farm.
Apart from these companies, there are another nine at the Chamber stand. The fair, which began on Monday, ends on Thursday (26).
*Translated by Mark Ament
