The company submitted a bid to the Exchange Commission for a public offering of 2.174 billion new ordinary shares and 1.585 billion new preferred shares. The funds will finance its investment plan.

A project to promote social inclusion through embroidery turns into a cooperative and awakens to foreign market opportunities. Items produced in Itaperuna, in Rio de Janeiro, are already in Paris.

Get ready to be transported to another time at the beautiful Penedo, the most charming city in the interior of Alagoas, by the São Francisco River. The tour includes history, baroque art and cuisine.

The director at Sahloul group, Taleb Ali Alrawi, is in São Paulo and wants to import from 20,000 to 25,000 tonnes of sugar a month. The company already buys from Egypt and Dubai, and distributes.

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture forecasts that 651.51 million tonnes of sugarcane should be processed during the 2010-2011 crop cycle, as against 604.5 million in the previous season.

Importers from Oman and the United Arab Emirates are going to participate in Fruit&Tech, from September 27 to 29, in São Paulo. The fair should include roundtables with buyers from eight countries.

Private equity fund Mercatto Alimentos purchased part of the capital of Villa Germania, the largest duck meat producer in Brazil. The company exports 70% of produce to the Middle East.

The municipality will take businessmen to the Middle East’s leading construction fair, in Dubai. The attendance was confirmed by the Secretary of Trade, Industry, Services and Tourism, Rui Rabelo.