Category: Business

Brazilian beer Skol is the most valuable brand in Latin America for the second consecutive year, according to the BrandZ™ Top 50 Most Valuable Brands in Latin America, in its fifth annual edition. The region faced significant political changes and high inflation that affected budgets and consumer confidence in 2016, resulting in a 22% drop…

Organized for over a decade, the Summit Brasil is one of the most important events on the annual calendar of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce. Government officials, business leaders, members of the international financial community, and academia will have the opportunity to discuss and assess the key developments affecting the Brazilian economy, as well as…

tinyB chocolate, a recently established manufacturer of fine Brazilian chocolates known as brigadeiros, was recently featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. tinyB chocolate has recently expanded its facilities to meet the growing demand. “We are thrilled to be featured in San Francisco and share our values with the community. Renata and I are excited to…

The new production office in Porto Alegre complements and strengthens the iDISC team in Brazil, establishing a distributed and local management and production strategy to meet the growing demand for translation services in Latin American languages. The iDISC Information Technologies was founded in 1987 to help companies publish and distribute their content in any language,…

NeoSpeech Inc., one of the leading providers of text-to-speech solutions, has launched two new high-quality text-to-speech voices in Brazilian Portuguese. Rafael (male) and Helena (female) are the first Brazilian Portuguese voices from NeoSpeech, bringing the total number of languages offered by NeoSpeech to 10. Rafael and Helena can instantly convert any length of text into…

Franchising is considered one of the least costly ways to expand businesses. It is a lucrative opportunity in Brazil. Below, we list 10 franchises from the USA available in the country.• Rex’s Chicken: Rex’s Chicken – Small pieces of chicken. Huge opportunity! Minimum capital required: $75,000.• Birds Eye Global Tracking: Join a multibillion-dollar annual and…

The legend of Brazilian soccer Ronaldo — three-time FIFA World Player of the Year and former player for clubs such as Barcelona, Inter Milan, and Real Madrid — will participate in the groundbreaking ceremony on March 31 for his latest academy R9, at the new vacation home resort Balmoral Resort Florida, in Haines City, near…

A cement bunk bed, a shower, a cold water shower, and a hole in the ground as a toilet. This is a cell in Bangu 9 prison, in the humble neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Eike Batista (60), the Brazilian businessman who became the seventh richest man in the world, with a fortune of about…

Brazil won the bid to host the World Congress of Chambers of Commerce, an international event dedicated to leaders and executives of chambers of commerce from around the world. The 11th edition of the international event will take place in Rio de Janeiro in 2019. The capital of the Brazilian state had cities like Bogotá…

Volkswagen announced that it will invest R$ 1 billion in its bus and truck production line in Brazil over the next five years. This is 50% more than the last four five-year plans developed by the company for Brazil. After presenting the plan to President Michel Temer, the CEO of MAN Latin America, Roberto Cortês,…