Press Release: Brazil Means Business Symposium - Amsterdam, 29th March 2010

Brazil Means Business Symposium
A 360 View of an Emerging Economy

AMSTERDAM – March 23, 2010/  Entrepreneurs, investors, market analysts, and technology startups interested in going to market, forming partnerships, and investing in Brazil will be attending the Brazil Means Business Symposium, in Amsterdam on March 29^th, to better understand how the emerging economy is poised for growth.

Online M&A Brazil Deal Book, a new information service for M&A professionals that works around a simple concept, an Internet-based Deal Book of blind profiles for access by professional investors, will be presented by Mr. Thierry Larose, who is the founder and CEO of InBelFlu Investment, a M&A-Advisory/Investment boutique based in Brazil, that specialises in Venture Capital fundraising assistance, and in acquisition of ownership interests in local small and medium businesses. InBelFlu works also as a gateway for international clients seeking to invest in Brazilian domestic markets - e.g. government debt securities, private companies, and real estate.

Brazil has become an attractive market to do business in the last decade, according to the President of the Banco De Lage Landen, in the South of Brazil, Porto Alegre, Mr. Maarten Viskaal: "Brazil is economically developing very well. Huge investments are planned for infrastructure, energy and oil extraction. The middle-class is upcoming and pushing domestic demand for consumer goods and housing.”, and “more and more there will be a push into high-tech solutions".  In Brazil, De Lage Landen provides vendor finance services to the agricultural, construction, healthcare, and technology sectors.

Internet startups found fertile ground in Brazil too. Nimbuzz, the three year old Dutch mobile applications startup that went to market in Brazil in 2008 is doing very well. The 200 million strong nation and its burgeoning middle class are downloading Nimbuzz applications and services faster than you can say Brazil.

As the host of the World Cup in 2014, the Olympic Games in 2016, and with major investments being made in infrastructure by the government, Brazil presents a unique opportunity for foreign companies in the infrastructure, banking, biotechnology, and mobile technology sectors in the next decade. 

For tickets:  https://www.regonline.com/brazilmeansbusiness

About Conversion Communications: The Brazil Means Business Symposium is organised by Conversion Communications, a producer of independent, strategic events for senior executives and management of Fortune Global 500 and Global 100 companies, investors, entrepreneurs and SMEs in the high-technology sector. Its partners have more than 25 years experience organizing and promoting international, high-level conferences, product launch events, symposia, and seminars for the United Nations, the Brazilian government and the third sector in Europe, Brazil, and the US.

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Mayara Fagundes: mayara at conversioncommunications.com +31 20 893-2858

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