ANBA Bulletin, May 7, 2018

This Monday (7) in your ANBA Bulletin: Arab countries accounted for 5% of all food and beverages imported to Brazil in the last six years. The information was conveyed by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce to Middle East and North Africa executives exhibiting at APAS Show, held by the São Paulo Supermarkets Association (APAS), which began today. The top-selling items are fish, fresh and dried vegetables, aniseed, dates, olive oil, molasses, fruits and nuts. Morocco is the leading Arab supplier of food to Brazil. The APAS Show will run until next Thursday (10), with 19 Arab businesses featured in a pavilion organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber. .

International cosmetics expo BeautyWorld Middle East begins this Tuesday (8) in Dubai, featuring 42 Brazilian companies offering toiletry items, perfume, cosmetics, hair products, knives, etc. The companies are affiliated with the Beautycare Brasil project, a tandem effort of the Brazilian Cosmetics, Toiletry and Fragrance Industry (Abihpec) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil). The Arab Chamber will once again partner up with the program to take beauty industry influencers and bloggers to the event.

Also featured is the launch of São Paulo’s Syrian Sports Club’s 100^th anniversary landmark. The club was established in 1917 and had its centennial last year. It launched a commemorative monument this weekend: an 8.4-ton stone taken from the same site as the stones used in building the historical city of Palmira, in Syria.

Brazilian brands take their beauty products to Dubai

Syrian Sports Club launched centennial landmark

Lebanon, São Paulo universities to cooperate