S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Starting in July this year, Cal\u00e7ados Bibi, a children\u2019s shoe manufacturing company based in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, will have a representative in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The company expects its sales to the Middle East to rise from the current figure of 60,000 pairs a year to 100,000 pairs in 2010, and then on to 300,000 pairs per year.<\/p>\n
Cal\u00e7ados Bibi began exporting to the Arabs approximately 10 years ago, by means of contacts made at international shoe fairs held in Brazil and Europe. Presently, the company sells its products to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Syria and Lebanon, the latter being its main buyer in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Arab market has a huge potential to be tapped. This year, we should start working with a local partner, because they (the Arabs) prefer a more personal contact. This is going to be our bet in order to increase our business volume there,\u201d says Magnus Oliveira, the man in charge of exports to the Middle East.<\/p>\n
In the last three years, sales to the Arabs have generated revenues of around US$ 780,000, equivalent to roughly 10% of Cal\u00e7ados Bibi\u2019s overall export revenues.<\/p>\n
According to Oliveira, the differential of the shoes that the company sells to the Arabs is the design, the technology and the material used: leather is the basis of Bibi\u2019s product. \u201cThese are truly attention-grabbing factors,\u201d he believes.<\/p>\n
Headquartered in the city of Parob\u00e9, in Rio Grande do sul, Cal\u00e7ados Bibi employs 3,000 people and has annual revenues of US$ 100 million.<\/p>\n
Contact<\/b>
Cal\u00e7ados Bibi
Tel: +55 51 3512-3344
e-mail: magnus@bibi.com.br<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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