Sadia, Brazil’s Main Food Brand, Gets New Home and US$ 65 Million Cash Infusion

In 2006, Brazilian foodstuff company Sadia is going to have a new address. The company is transferring to Curitiba, capital city of Brazil’s southern state of Paraná, their administrative center, thus joining the planning, supplies, purchases and engineering areas.

The move, together with expansion and modernization in the industrial park installed in the state, will demand investments worth US$ 64.5 million.

The announcement was made last week in Curitiba by the president of the company’s Management Council, Walter Fontana Filho. According to the executive, the investments in the new administrative center and in the industrial area will implicate the opening of 250 work positions. Currently, the company’s headquarters are located in the Lapa neighborhood of the city of São Paulo.

Sadia is one of the largest companies in the meats sector in the country. Between January and September this year their gross revenue reached US$ 2.6 billion, which meant an increase in 15% in relation to the US$ 2.28 billion registered during the first nine months in 2004.

The company has an important activity base in the state of Paraná. Of the 13 industrial units spread across the country, five of them are located in the state, in the cities of Ponta Grossa, Paranaguá, Francisco Beltrão, Toledo and Dois Vizinhos.

The three latter execute halal slaughtering, in other words, their production meets the religious and sanitation demands for consumption in the Muslim countries. Other Sadia units that make the Islamic slaughtering are in Uberlândia, Brasí­lia, Lageado and Concórdia.

In 2005, the Middle East took the position of Sadia’s greatest client, representing 26% of their exports, which represented revenues of approximately US$ 347 million.

In second place was Europe, with 24% (US$ 320 million), followed by Eurasia, with 23% (US$ 307 million), Asia, with 15% participation (US$ 200 million) and the Americas, with 12% (US$ 160 million).

As well as the halal slaughtering, the products exported to the Muslim countries have the Green Stamp, which certifies that the poultry have not been confined and were fed only on vegetable animal feed.

Omar Nasser works for the Fiep (Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná).

Anba – www.anba.com.br

Tags:

You May Also Like

It’s Brazilian Hélio’s day! A Cinderella Story at the Indy 500

On a day that could never have been imagined the very foundation of Brazilian ...

Monsanto Stops Collecting Royalty After Brazilian Farmers’ Uprising

US-based company Monsanto, world’s largest seed company, suspended collection of royalties for its Roundup ...

Rio Police Kill One for Every 23 Arrested, in US There is One Death for 37,000

A report by Human Rights Watch a non-governmental organization (NGO)  reveals that many killings ...

US Lawyers Sue TAM and Airbus in Case of Brazil’s Worst Air Disaster

Families of the passengers killed in Brazil, last year, in the country's worst air ...

Campaign in Brazil Promotes Shoes as Special Gift

The Brazilian Association of Shoes and Artifacts Shopkeepers (Ablac), from the southern Brazilian state ...

Brazil Today Is Yesterday’s Venezuela

Perhaps no other Latin American political leader has received as much attention from Brazilian ...

Brazil Cuts Interest Rates by 0.5%. Largest Reduction in 2 Years.

Brazil’s Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of the Central Bank (BC) decided Wednesday, October 19, ...

World’s Largest Floating Tree Up in Rio for 14th Year

Once again the traditional inauguration of the largest floating Christmas tree in the world ...

Brazil Lives Under a Blackout Threat and an Ultimatum by Organized Crime

Urban buses are back to the streets of Brazil’s major city São Paulo today, ...

July Shaping Up as Another Record Breaking Month for Brazilian Exports

Brazil’s Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, stated today that ...