Brazilian Products

09/11/2009
 The president of the Brazilian Agency of Promotion of Exports and Investments (Apex-Brazil), Alessandro Teixeira, jointly with the management of the Brazilian Institute of the Wine (Ibravin) commemorated the reach of the mark of US$ 5 million in exports of Brazilian fine wines in the last year and they already fastened a new goal of US$ 7,5 million. The goal of 2009 was conquered by the participant companies of the project Wines From Brazil. A bottle of wine Fills 43, of five liters, was opened in the commemoration.   
 
Teixeira detached that the goals are being reached a long time before the expected. “With that project, we want to put the Brazilian wine in the position that it deserves. Our wine has quality and it will be in the shelves of stores around of the world”, he affirmed.  
 
The project Wines From Brazil had beginning in 2003 with six wine-producing participants. Today they are 38, and 21 executed exports. In six years of work, the exported value increased more than 20 times, arising of US$ 231 thousand in 2003 for the US$ 5,23 million until May of this year, an increment about 2.250%. The manager of commercial promotion of WFB, Andréia Gentilini Milan, commemorates the obtained results. “We advanced in one year the goal foreseen until the end of 2009”, she celebrates. “Our largest pride is providing access to the world market to the small wine-producing”. Today, 75% of the companies that integrate the WFB are small and medium companies. 
 
“The international market has been showing a demand tendency for wines of newer production areas, as it is the case of Brazil. In Canada, for instance, SAQ (Société give Alcools du Québec) has just selected four Brazilian labels for sale in their 441 stores installed in the province of Quebec”, informs the president of Apex-Brazil. In Sweden, System Bolaget, monopoly responsible for the commercialization in the retail of  alcoholic beverage, has just included the foamy "moscateis" Brazilian wines in its auction of purchase of new labels. “We struggled for us to have specify auctions to Brazil and now we are finally conquering our space, with the recognition of countries as Sweden and Canada”, affirms the executive-director of Ibravin, Carlos Raimundo Paviani.

03/23/2010
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