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Centrais Electricas Brasileiras (ELETROBRAS) SA Company Profile
Centrais Electricas Brasileiras SA (ELETROBRAS) operates in the electric power sector in Brazil. The objective of ELETROBRAS is to perform activities involving studies, projects, construction and operation of electric power plants, transmission and distribution lines as well as underlying trade operations arising therefrom. Full Story
Energias do Brasil EDP SA Company Profile
EDP – Energias do Brasil SA is mainly active in the generation, distribution and supply of electricity. In the electricity distribution area it has a 96.5% shareholding in Bandeirante Energia S.A., and holds 100% of IVEN, S.A., which controls Escelsa Espirito Santo Centrais Electricas, S.A., Full Story
Duratex SA Company Profile
Duratex S.A. is a manufacturer of wood products based in Brazil. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, the Company has nine industrial units in Brazil and two in Argentina, with branches in the main Brazilian cities and commercial subsidiaries in the United States and Europe. Duratex operates through two divisions: Full Story
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; Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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.: Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story
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. Full Story