Meet Brazil’s cooperatives
Based on high potential within Brazil’s cooperatives, EKF is working on
establishing shopping lines to selected cooperatives.
Project based delegations to Brazil. Delegation 1: week 23, Delegation 2:
week 25 and Delegation 3: week 35
A new initiative builds bridges between Danish exporters within agriculture and food
processing equipment and some of Brazil’s largest cooperatives. Join and meet with
Brazilian cooperatives that each year invests millions into new products and solutions.
Confederation of Danish Industry, the Danish Agriculture & Food Council, EKF Denmark’s Export
Credit Agency and the Danish General Consulate in
São Paulo invite you to join this initiative, consisting
of an export catalogue, a financing seminar
and a delegation visit to Brazil.
The objective of the initiative is to match you with
relevant Brazilian Cooperatives such as LAR, C. Vale,
Coamo and Frimesa that invest into both agriculture,
food production, ingredients, and food. EKF is working on establishing credit lines to the targeted Brazilian Cooperatives that can be utilized when buying
technology and equipment from you.
General Consulate in São Paulo. By joining you will
get:

A profile in the export catalogue presented to the
cooperatives

Access to the financing seminar, where the commercial opportunity and financial focus will be
presented and discussed

Based on the cooperatives screening of the export catalogue, you will be invited to join a project delegation.
Meanwhile, EKF will be working on offering credit
lines to the cooperativestogether with international
banks in Brazil.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
Joining a project based delegation to Brazil will give
you targeted B2B meetings with 4-5 cooperatives already visited and screened by EKF and the Danish
WHO SHOULD JOIN?
Any company supplying the agriculture and food
processing sector. The cooperatives invest in solutions and new technology.
INVITATION
Export Catalogue
– Financing
Seminar – Delegation Visit
Meet
Brazil’s
cooperatives
THE PROCESS
DRAFT PROGRAM:
1. CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
Registering for this business delegation does not ensure your participation. To make sure that the meetings are relevant for both you and the cooperatives,
there will be a screening process after your registration. You need to fill in a company profile using the
attached template. When you register, please send
your company profile and up to three high resolution
product pictures to Market Advisor Kathrine LysterClausen, [email protected]
2. BACKGROUND
EKF and the Consulate General have identified and
established a dialogue with 8 large Brazilian cooperatives within dairy, grains, chicken, fish, and pork
production, as well as corn and soya. All 8 cooperatives have shown a great interest in the Danish innovative solutions. Together with international banks
in Brazil EKF is working on offering credit lines to
the targeted cooperatives. Next step is to introduce
the cooperatives to the Danish companies.
3. EXPORT CATALOGUE
To gain the opportunity to meet the most relevant cooperatives for your company, you need to fill in a profile. The catalogue forms the basis for the cooperatives’ selection process. See further comments under
conditions for participation. It is free to have a profile
in the catalogue.
4. FINANCING SEMINAR
On 26th of April there will be a pre-meeting and financing seminar hosted by Confederation of Danish
Industry. At this meeting you will learn more about
the business potential at the cooperatives, the offered
financing solution, the program details, next step
and key notes to give you a solid background needed
for your preparation.
5. JOIN THE DELEGATION VISIT
The cooperatives select the companies they wish to
talk to about their investment plans. Therefore the
text in the Export Catalogue is very important. The
delegation will be divided into smaller groups of 5-6
companies. The cooperatives are interested in
smaller groups to allow them to be detailed and to
give you time to make a proper presentation.
Every visit will include visits with 4-5 cooperatives.
Wednesday 26 April
· Financing Seminar at DI – program will follow
For each of the three weeks (week
23, 25 and 35):
Monday
· Arrival
· Welcoming seminar
· Dinner at own expense
Tuesday
· Meeting with the first cooperative including:
an introduction to the cooperative and its investment plans and B2B meetings
· Transportation to next cooperative
· Dinner on own expense
Wednesday
· Meeting with the second cooperative including: an introduction to the cooperative
and its investment plans and B2B meetings
· Transportation to next cooperative
· Dinner on own expense
Thurday
· Meeting with the third cooperative including: an introduction to the cooperative and
its investment plans and B2B meetings
· Transportation to next cooperative
· Dinner on own expense
Friday
· Meeting with the fourth cooperative including: an introduction to the cooperative and
its investment plans and B2B meetings
· Transportation to the next large city with international flights
· Dinner on own expense
INVITATION
MARKET INFORMATION
In spite of a Brazilian recession, the Brazilian agriculture and food production industries has continued to grow,
and is forecasted to reach a total value of sales of USD 213.5 billion in 2017.
As the production shifts from the local mar-ket to focus more on exports the Brazilian producers of both animal
protein and grains are expanding, optimizing and enhancing their production facilities, focusing on among
other things more automatization, food safety and more value-adding processed products.
Brazilian consumers are also seeking better and safer products and with the economic outlook looking better in
2018 the wheels of the 208 million people large Brazilian con-sumer-market is also slowly setting in mo-tion.
Packed foods were valued at USD 90.8 billion in 2015, and is expected to continu-ously grow rapidly and reach
USD 140.1 billion by 2020.
Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse, and was the world’s fourth leading exporter of agri-food and seafood products in 2015. Today Brazil is dominating the poultry, bovine, soy, sugar, coffee and orange juice markets while
also being among the World leaders in pork and corn. The Brazilian agricultural sector employs 15.7 pct. of the
total Brazilian workforce. Parana state where all the target-ed cooperatives are located has fastest growth of the
28 Brazilian states.
COOPERATIVES INFORMATION
To plan the project delegations, please write in your registration which cooperatives you wish to meet with. The
8 Brazilian cooperatives include
· LAR: works within poultry, pork processed food products, animal feed, wood, egg-production and they have
15 supermarkets.
· C.Vale: works within poultry, fish, animal feed, processed foods and pork.
· COAMO: works within grains and wood.
· Frimesa: works within pork, poultry, diary and processed foods.
· Copacol: works within poultry, fish, processed food, vegetables and they have 6 supermarkets.
· Copagril: works within poultry, pork, fish, animal feed, processed foods, and they have 5 supermarkets
· Cocamar: works within grains and wood.
· Frisia: works within grains, animal feed, diary, pork, bovine and wood.
Read more about the cooperatives project pipeline in the Cooperatives Overview Page
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
PRICE (eller THE BASIC PACKAGE INCLUDES)
Full participation: DKK 15,500 excl. VAT per participating company (2 participants
per company)
The price is calculated on a basis of 15 participating companies, 5-7 companies per project
delegation and approved 50 per cent subsidy by The Danish Trade Council. Local transportation mentioned in the tentative program are included in the price. Flights and hotels are
not included in the price.
NOTICE: In order to maximise business potential please rank the cooperatives according
to your business interests, and equally rank the delegations weeks (week 23, 25 and 35).
HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION
Flights and hotel are not included in the price. Upon registration, you will receive a travel
proposal from BCD Meetings & Events.
HOW TO REGISTER
Please register by filling out the online registration form. Deadline for binding registration
is Friday 31 March 2017.
Registration conditions are in accordance with Confederation of Danish Industry’s terms
of participation in Export Promotion Events Download here.
REGISTER HERE
CONTACT
Confederation of Danish Industry
Kathrine Lyster-Clausen
[email protected]
+45 3377 3375
Danish Agriculture and Food Council
Susanne Zwergius Teilmann
[email protected]
+45 2045 7626
EKF
Marek Lyngbye Zandberg
[email protected]
+45 3546 2682
Consulate General in São Paulo
Poul Erik Bligaard
[email protected]
+55 (11) 99449 9254