Thinking of Brazil: Soccer and volley-ball.. Girls and beaches… Amazon forest… Sunshine and caipirinha… Carnival and samba… Coffee… and many dreams more!

Thinking again when doing business: financial sector (high profit margins), industrial segment (broad and robust plants), oil (current source of energy) and biodiesel / ethanol (future source of cleaner fuel), telecommunications (big yet fast growing market), on line networking (after only the US market) and more!

Did you know that:

- Brazil accounts for a large bottom line profit from one of the largest international telecom groups (Telefonica)
- The wealthiest man on Earth (soon richer than Bill Gates) reached this level mostly because of his investments in 2 countries, Brazil being one of them (Mr. Carlos Slim, from Mexico)
- Google, Skype, Microsoft, MSN, Yahoo, IBM have all reached high valuation entering in the Brazilian market sooner than later (Brazil is ranked Top 3 or Top 5 market for these corporations)
- The second largest fleet of private jets and helicopters are based in Brazil (only after the USA)
- The Brazilian branch of a Dutch bank is a key asset under one of the largest deals in the financial industry (ABNAmro in Brazil is a clear target of Santander)
- Very large international banks get nice return on their assets from Brazil when compared to other markets (Santander, Citigroup, HSBC) §

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