Archive for the ‘Company Profiles’ Category

Diagnosticos da America SA Company Profile

Diagnosticos da America SA is a Brazilian company, which offers health services to businesses, insurance companies, hospital and medical aid entities, and other individual and legal entities. The Company offers clinical analysis, either directly or of a supplementary nature via contracted laboratories; Read more: Diagnosticos da America SA Company Profile

Cosan SA Company Profile

Cosan S.A. Industria e Comercio is a producer of sugar and ethanol. The Company cultivates harvests and processes sugarcane – the main raw material used to produce sugar and ethanol. Read more: Cosan SA Company Profile

Companhia Petroquimica do Sul – Copesul SA Company Profile

Copesul-Companhia Petroquimica do Sul is a Brazil-based company that is engaged in the production and sale of basic petrochemicals and allied products. The Company processes mainly naphtha condensate and liquefied petroleum gas so as to generate basic products that feed downstream industries of the petrochemical chain. Read more: Companhia Petroquimica do Sul – Copesul SA Company Profile

Companhia Paranaense de Energia COPEL SA Company Profile

Companhia Paranaense de Energia-COPEL (COPEL) is an electric power company engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in the Brazilian State of Parana. As of December 31, 2004, COPEL generated electricity from 17 hydroelectric plants and one thermoelectric plant, with a total installed capacity of 4,550 megawatts. Read more: Companhia Paranaense de Energia COPEL SA Company Profile

Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais SA Company Profile

Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais’s main activities comprise the planning, preparation, execution, expansion, remodeling and provision of water supply and sanitary sewage services. Read more: Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais SA Company Profile

Contax Participacoes SA Company Profile

Contax Participacoes S.A. is engaged in the provision of outsourcing contact center services to commercial and civil companies and its only controlled company, TNL Contax S.A. in Brazil. Read more: Contax Participacoes SA Company Profile

Confab Industrial SA Company Profile

Confab Industrial S.A. is a Brazil-based company that is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of welded steel pipes for the Energy, petroleum, gas and sanitation industries. The Company’s plant is located in Pindamonhangaba, in Sao Paulo, and has an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons of welded steel pipes. Read more: Confab Industrial SA Company Profile

Companhia de Gas de Sao Paulo Comgas SA Company Profile

Companhia de Gas de Sao Paulo (Comgas) is a distributor of piped natural gas in Brazil. Comgas is a public utility company, which was privatized in 1999 and operates a concession area encompassing the state of Sao Paulo, the Paraiba Valley, the southern seaboard of Brazil and the Campinas region. Read more: Companhia de Gas de Sao Paulo Comgas SA Company Profile

Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo CESP SA Company Profile

Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo (CESP) is an energy company in Brazil. The Company has an installed power total of 7,455.3 megawatts. It has six hydroelectric plants, three located along the Parana River, one at the Tiete River and two in the River Paraiba do Sul basin. Read more: Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo CESP SA Company Profile

Celesc SA Company Profile

Centrais Eletricas de Santa Catarina S.A. (CELESC) is an Energy services company in Brazil. The Company’s controlling shareholder is the State of Santa Catarina, which, as of December 31, 2005, held 50.2% of voting capital stock. Read more: Celesc SA Company Profile

Companhia de Concessoes Rodoviarias (CCR) SA Company Profile

Companhia de Concessoes Rodoviarias (CCR) is a holding company with interests in private interstate highway concessions in Brazil. The Company controls 11 subsidiary concession holders, through which it works a public-private business model for the operation of toll-roads, aiming to centralize the management of a portfolio of toll concessions and service companies. Read more: Companhia de Concessoes Rodoviarias (CCR) SA Company Profile

Caemi Mineracao e Metalurgia SA Company Profile

Caemi Mineracao e Metalurgia S.A. is a brazilian holding company that is engaged in iron ore and kaolin exportations. The company also operates in railroad transportation in Brazil. Caemi owns the subsidiaries CADAM S.A. and Mineracoes Brasileiras Reunidas S.A. (MBR). Brasileiras Reunidas operates as an iron ore mining and processing company in minas Gerais, a former brazilian state. Read more: Caemi Mineracao e Metalurgia SA Company Profile

Braskem SA Company Profile

Braskem S.A. is a brazilian thermoplastics manufacturer and petrochemical cracker. The company produces and distributes a diversified portfolio of petrochemical products. Four business units form the operations of Braskem S.A.: Read more: Braskem SA Company Profile

Brasil Telecom Participacoes SA Company Profile

Brasil Telecom Participacoes S.A. is a holding company that conducts substantially all of its operations through its only and wholly owned subsidiary Brasil Telecom S.A. The Company provides fixed-line telecommunications services and a variety of data transmission services through various technologies, and means of access. Read more: Brasil Telecom Participacoes SA Company Profile

Banco do Brasil SA Company Profile

Banco do Brasil offers a large range of banking and financial related products and services in Brazil. Main activities (among others) are: the provision of loans, provision of deposits, commercial loans and loans to the agricultural sector, including retail loans, commercial loans and loans to the agricultural sector, the provision of foreign exchange services, the trading of securities, the provision of foreign exchange services, and other banking activities. Banco do Brasil has it’s own credit card brand and is an underwriter of domestic bonds in Brazil. Read more: Banco do Brasil SA Company Profile

Bradespar SA Company Profile

The Brazilian Sao Paulo based investment holding’s strategy is to invest and participate in mature and established segments of the Brazilian economy, which offer steady and long-term return on investment. The company also focuses on possible investments in mid-sized or Mid cap companies that are expected to bring in accelerated growth and huge returns. Read more: Bradespar SA Company Profile

Banco Bradesco SA Company Profile

Banco Bradesco is a private non-government owned bank located in Osasco in the state of Sao Paulo. The bank provides banking and financial products to individuals and companies as well as to international or major local corporations and institutions. Read more: Banco Bradesco SA Company Profile

Arcelor BR SA Compny Profile

With Arcelor BR three companies have been merged: Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarao, Vega do Sul and Companhia Siderurgica Belgo-Mineira, which are spezialised and heavily participating in the flat and long steel production.
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Aracruz SA Company Profile

Aracruz is a brazilian company based in Rio de Janeiro that manufactures and exports bleached hardwood kraft pulp. The Company manufactures eucalyptus pulp, which is a hardwood pulp used by paper manufacturers to produce products such as tissues, writing and printing papers, specialty papers and liquid packaging boards. Read more: Aracruz SA Company Profile

Alpargatas SA Company Profile

The Sao Paulo based Alpargatas S.A. is primarily manufacturing and selling footwear and components in the retail business. The company also distributes clothes, textil products, resins, and natural or synthetic rubber articles and sporting articles. A few well known labels and products are Topper, Mizuno, Rainha sporting articles; Read more: Alpargatas SA Company Profile