São Paulo – The merger of food manufacturing companies Perdigão and Sadia, concluded last evening (18th), will be announced today (19th), in the city of São Paulo, by the chairmen of the new company’s Board of Managers, Nildemar Secches and Luiz Fernando Furlan. To the technical advisor at the Brazilian Consumer Protection Institute (Idec), Marcos
Apart from meats and commodities, the main products exported by Brazil to the Arab market, the country wants to sell processed food and to attract investment to the agro industrial sector.
Sector mergers and acquisitions grew 52% last year. Transactions involving iron ore were the main contributing factor. Worldwide, the business volume has decreased, according to a survey by PwC.
The enterprise exported more to the region in the first quarter. The Middle East bought 23.3% of what the company sold abroad. The export performance to Africa was also good.
The Brazilian Stela Grisotti and Paschoal Samora released documentary ‘A Chave da Casa’ (The Key to the Home). The film tells the story of five Palestinian refugees who left Jordan for Brazil.
The Argentinean crop reduction expanded the market for Brazilian soy in the Arab world. Brazil posted US$ 50 million in revenues from sales of commodity to the region between January and April.
Brasília – Researchers with the National Institute of Science and Technology for Climate Change (INTC-MC) are going to map out the vulnerabilities of ten Brazilian megacities in the face of the impact of climate change. According to the coordinator of the institute, Carlos Nobre, the aim is to identify problems in order to set the
Brasília – The trade balance surplus (exports minus imports) in the second week of May 2009 was US$ 505 million. In the period, exports totalled US$ 3.026 billion and imports, US$ 2.521 billion. This information was disclosed by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. In the accumulated result for the month, with ten
The state is also developing a program through which it plans to renew its Arabica coffee crops in 49 cities. The idea is to gain in quality, productivity and to increase the crop.
The Arab country purchased US$ 3.7 million in Brazilian cement in the first quarter of the year. The total is equivalent to 10.7% of all Mauritania imported from Brazil.
Six companies from the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain are in São Paulo to participate in the Apas fair, in the supermarket sector, which starts today and ends on Thursday.
In meetings with the Saudi king and the GCC secretary general, Lula made a proposal for cooperation in oil as a means for minimizing the impasse on petrochemicals, which hampers the process.
The president of the Saudi Arabian Investment Authority, Amr Al Dabbagh, will travel late this month to talk to businessmen about projects in his country and look into opportunities in Brazil.
The Brazilian president prompted king Abdullah Al Saud to seek reciprocal investment opportunities. According to him, the countries must be ‘brave enough to dare’ and come out of the crisis stronger.
