|
The First International Business Roundtable of the International Dentistry Congress of São Paulo (Ciosp) is going to take place between January 25 and 27 in the city of São Paulo, the largest business center in Brazil, located in the southeast of the country.
Promoted by the Association of the Manufacturers of Medical and Dental Products (Abimo), the meeting is going to count on the participation of 45 Brazilian and 22 international companies, among them importers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
The objective of the event, in partnership with the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency (Apex), is to provide incentives to Brazilian products made by companies that produce dentistry products, like chairs, machinery, resin and implants.
"The Arab market is currently very important for the sector," stated Hely Audrey Maestrello, the executive director of the Abimo.
According to him, the Arab market as a whole has gained in importance as a Brazilian medical and dentistry equipment export destination after 14 companies from Brazil participated in the Arab Health fair, which took place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, last year.
"If we repeat the experience that we had at the fair in Dubai, it will be a great success," stated Maestrello.
The event generated US$ 3.9 million for the Brazilian companies participating.
This year, the director of the Abimo believes that around 40 domestic companies are going to visit Arab Health, and the forecast is to generate US$ 11.5 million in business, an increase of 194.8% with regard to the previous fair.
"We have reached very positive results with the Arab market. It has exceeded all our expectations," stated Maestrello.
According to him, apart from Brazilian company participation in the fair in Dubai, in February this year the Abimo is going to promote a mission to Saudi Arabia in May.
The mission will include the main Brazilian exporters. Up to the moment, around 15 Brazilian companies are already confirmed.
The mission should take place some days before the Saudi Health Care fair, which is supported by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB).
According to Maestrello, Saudi Arabia is one of the Arab countries that import the largest number of medical and hospital products in Brazil, and that is why the event is being organized there.
With regard to the business roundtable in São Paulo - which will also include importers from South Africa, Australia, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Vietnam -, Maestrello believes that it will generate US$ 1.9 million in business and generate over 700 commercial contracts. The event is going to take place at the Anhembi Exhibition Pavilion.
Balance
Maestrello believes that in 2004, the medical, dentistry, hospital and laboratory article and equipment sector exported the equivalent to US$ 250 million. For this year, the Abimo target is to grow 10%, reaching US$ 275 million.
The director of the Abimo stated that the companies in the sector that have partnerships with the Apex had a 42% increase in their exports in the last two years.
For 2005, the partnership between the Abimo and the Apex has been renewed and the forecast is that there should be 41% growth in the number of exporters, increasing the total to 200 companies.
Another sector forecast is the entry in new markets, such as the Chinese, South African, Angolan and Turkish, and consolidation of markets from the Middle East, Russia, India and Mexico. This may increase exports by 22% in the next two years, says the Abimo.
Still according to the association, the dentistry segment is the only one in the sector that generates a surplus and in which, in 2004, foreign sales of the products and equipment rose 15% when compared to 2003, reaching US$ 39.7 million. Of total dentistry sector sales, 21% are turned to the foreign market.
ANBA – Brazil-Arab News Agency
 |
Subscribe to this comment's feed
Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country's ascension to the ranks of one of the world's most important countries. Now, as it finally takes its place on the world scene, there has been a great deal of concern about what kind of image Brazil hopes to project, now that the world is really paying attention. 
The only good thing to say about the visit to Brazil of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday November 23, is that it was mercifully short and lasted less than 24 hours. Ahmadinejad had his picture taken being hugged by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who gave him a warm welcome and said Iran had every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose.