Companies of Brazil Companies of Brazil Acesita S.A. is a major Brazilian manufacturer of specialty steels headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The company is a supplier of stainless, silicon and special carbon steels. Acesita's steel market share in Brazil is estimated to be 90%, and it is the only stainless steel maker in South America. Acesita's main plant, at Timóteo in Minas Gerais, has an installed production capacity is 850,000 tons of steel per year. The company also mines iron ore. Acesita was founded in the 1940s, and got into the stainless steel business in the late 1970s. It was privatised by the Brazilian government in 1992. The French steel maker Usinor, now part of Arcelor, took a controlling stake in Acesita 1998. Acesita's stock is traded on Bovespa, where it is part of the Ibovespa index. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acesita"
Albuquerque & Takaoka is one of the most significant and active architecture, civil engineering and real state development private companies of São Paulo, Brazil. It is mostly known for its role in creating the innovative Alphaville concept of business and gated residencial condominia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albuquerque & Takaoka"
AmBev is a major Brazilian brewing company headquartered in São Paulo and more formally known as Companhia de Bebidas das Américas. The company was created in 1998 by the fusion of the two largest Brazilian brewers, Antarctica and Brahma. It was the largest brewery in Latin America, and the fourth largest in the world. Eighty percent of the company is now owned by InBev of Leuven, Belgium, following the company's 2004 merger with Belgian brewing company Interbrew. ...more on Wikipedia about "AmBev"
Aracruz Celulose S.A. is a major Brazilian manufacturer of pulp headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aracruz"
(Avibras) Avibrás Indústria Aerospacial is a diversified Brazilian company which designs, develops and manufactures defense products and services. Its range of products encompasses artillery and aircraft defense systems, rockets and missiles. Examples of those products are air-to-ground and surface-to surface weapon systems, including artillery saturation rocket systems; 70mm air-to-ground systems and fiber optic multi-purpose guided missiles.It makes armoured vehicles as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avibras"
(Bob's) The company called Falkenburg Sorvetes used only to sell vanilla ice cream. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob's"
Bradespar S.A. is a Brazilian investment company headquartered in Sao Paulo. The company was formed in 2000 by Banco Bradesco in order to allow the bank to spin out some of its industrial investments. As at May 2005 the company owned major stakes in the iron ore miner Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, as well as in CPFL Energia, which is the largest private company of the Brazilian electricity sector. Bradespar's stock is traded on Bovespa, where it is part of the Ibovespa index. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bradespar"
Brahma is a Brazilian beer, originally made by the Companhia Cervejaria Brahma which was founded in 1888. The brands are now owned by the Company InBev; formed by a merger between Companhia de Bebidas das Américas AmBev; and Interbrew. It is famous for its innovative advertising which has won many awards at festivals such as Cannes. Its brands include: ...more on Wikipedia about "Brahma (beer)"
Brasil Telecom S.A. is a major Brazillian telecommunications company headquartered in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia. The company is one of three fixed line telephone companies in Brazil that emerged from the break-up of Telebras. Originally the company was called Tele Centro Sul, because its service covered the states in the central and southern parts of Brasil, namely Acre, Rondônia, Goiás, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, as well as the Brazilian Federal District. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brasil Telecom"
Braskem S.A. the largest Brazilian petrochemical company with head office in Sao Paulo. The company was formed in 2002 as part of a major restructuring of the Brazilian petrochemical industry which saw Copene merge with petrochemical companies controlled by Odebrecht, a heavy engineering and construcution company owned by the Odebrecht family, and another family-owned conglomerate, the Mariani Group. ...more on Wikipedia about "Braskem"
Caemi Mineracao e Metalurgia S.A. is a major Brazilian mining company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company owns iron ore mines in the so-called 'Iron Quadrangle' region of the state of Minas Gerais, and kaolin mines in the northern states of Amapá and Pará. The company also owns a stake in MRS Logística, which owns a railway network in southeastern Brazil. Caemi's's stock is traded on Bovespa, where it is part of the Ibovespa index. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caemi"
Celesc, or Centrais Eletrica de Santa Catarina S.A., is the electricity utility for the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. In 2004 the company had around 1.8-million customers and sold around 12.9 TWh of electricity. It generates power from 12 plants, all of them hydroelectric, with installed capacity of around 83MW. The company also owns some 4,000 km of transmission lines and a 90,000 km distribution network. Celesc is headquartered in the Santa Catarina capital of Florianópolis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celesc"
CEMIG, short for Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais S.A., is a Brazilian power company headquartered in the Minas Gerais capital of Belo Horizonte. The company is the largest combined power generator and distributor in Brazil, with around 50 power plants in operation, most of them hydroelectric. The company owns around 6,000 MW of generation capacity. Cemig also owns a cable television, internet and telecommunications business called Infovias which uses the company's transmission and distribution lines. Meanwhile a business called Gasmig supplies natural gas in Minas Gerais. Just over half of Cemig's stock is owned by the state of Minas Gerais. The stock is traded on Bovespa, where it is part of the Ibovespa index. It is also traded on the New York Stock Exchange. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cemig"
(Comgás) Comgas is a Brazilian gas distributor focused on São Paulo (state). It is Brazil's biggest gas distributor, with around 420,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in 2004, who receive gas through some 3,900 kilometres of pipelines. Comgas was founded in 1872. The company had been wholly owned by the São Paulo state-owned power generation utility, Companhia Energética São Paulo until April 1999, when CESP's stake was sold to the British company BG Group and to Royal Dutch Shell. Comgas sells gas under a 30 year franchise, with a potential for a further 20 years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comgás"
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional is the major siderurgical and metalworks company in Brazil. Its main plant is located in the city of Volta Redonda, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. ...more on Wikipedia about "Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional"
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) is a global diversified mining company and is also the largest logistics operator in Brazil. The Company is the number one market leader in production and exportation of iron ore and pellets and is also a world-class producer of manganese, ferroalloys, copper concentrate, bauxite, potash, kaolin, alumina and aluminum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Companhia Vale do Rio Doce"
Datasul is a Brazilian software provider for company solutions. The company was founded in 1978 by Mr. Miguel Abuhab and since then, it has built a network of 3000 professionals, a customer base of 2200 clients with more than 180 thousand active users. In addition to Brazil, the company has operations in almost all of Latin America, the US and Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Datasul"
Founded in 1971 - with the purpose of supplying the Brazilian refrigeration industry which, up until then, relied entirely on imported compressors - EMBRACO began production in 1974. It was in this same decade when it began to export to markets in Latin America, the USA and Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Embraco"
Embratel - Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações S.A. ( Portuguese for "Brazilian Telecommunications Company") is a major Brazilian telecommunications company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company was the long distance arm of Telebras until it was bought by the U.S. company MCI Communications for 2.65 billion reais during the 1998 break-up of Telebras. Since 2003, it is owned by Telmex. ...more on Wikipedia about "Embratel"
Furnas Centrais Elétricas is a major state-owned company in electricity generation and transmission business in Brazil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Furnas (Company)"
Habib's is a Brazilian fast food chain. Specialising in Middle Eastern cuisine, it has more than 260 outlets across the country and has recently begun expansion into foreign markets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Habib's"
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Klabin S.A. is a major Brazilian pulp and paper company based in Sao Paulo. The company produces around 1.5 million tons of paper products annually, with a focus on packaging paper, cardboard, corrugated box and multiwall sacks. Klabin has around 17 plants in Brazil. The Klabin family owns around 60% of the company's common shares, while another 20% is owned by the investment company Monteiro Aranha. Klabin's stock is traded on Bovespa, where it is part of the Ibovespa index. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klabin"
Light Servicos Eletricidade S.A. is an electric company based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company was privatized by the Brazilian federal government in 1996 when it was bought by a consortium of Houston Industries, AES Corp, and Électricité de France for US$1.7bn. Light's stock is traded on Bovespa, where it is part of the Ibovespa index. ...more on Wikipedia about "Light Servicos Eletricidade"
This is a list of companies from Brazil. See lists of companies for lists of companies from other countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Brazilian companies"
NET Serviços de Comunicação S.A., or 'NET Services and Communications' in English, is a major Brazilian pay television operator based in Sao Paulo. The company's NET pay television service is the largest in Brazil, with around 1.4 million subscribers. NET Serviços de Comunicação also operates a broadband internet service called VIRTUA that has around 200,000 subscribers. ...more on Wikipedia about "NET (company)"
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