SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Brazil, known as South America’s gateway to the Korean Wave, hosted an exclusive event to promote Korean webtoons. The Korean Cultural Center in São Paulo held a Webtoon Night Exhibition on Monday. Famous webtoon artists including Kwon Hyuk-joo and Song Rae-hyun were present at the opening ceremony, giving an [...]
ATLANTA, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CP Kelco, a global leader of nature-based ingredient solutions, is announcing a new distribution agreement with IMCD Brasil to serve the Brazilian market in Latin America. Effective January 1, 2020, IMCD Brasil will be the company’s strategic distributor in Brazil for CP Kelco’s pectin, gellan gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum and diutan gum for [...]
London, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Avenir LNG Limited (“Avenir”) wishes to announce that it will collaborate with Golar Power Limited (“Golar Power”) in developing the small-scale LNG market in Brazil. Avenir’s second 7,500 cbm LNG Carrier will be used to deliver LNG to various ports across Brazil upon delivery. The vessel will also offer [...]
Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Sinch AB (publ), a global leader in cloud communications for mobile customer engagement, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TWW do Brasil S.A. for an enterprise value of BRL 180.750 million. Using today’s SEK/BRL exchange rate of 2.43, this corresponds to SEK 439 million. Founded in [...]
NOVA LIMA, Brazil, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Afya Limited, or Afya (Nasdaq: AFYA) today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 15,805,841 Class A common shares at a public offering price of $19.00 per share. Afya issued and sold 13,888,887 shares of Class A common shares, which includes the full exercise of [...]
London, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) - IVECO, a brand of CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI /MI: CNHI), kick-started the initiative at its annual Gincana do Caminhoneiro, a skills and driving competition for professional truck drivers, in Campo Largo, Paraná state where the participating drivers were invited to donate toys. They were joined by an IVECO customer in [...]
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Brazilian association Dakila Research, represented by its president Urandir Fernandes de Oliveira, received in October a congratulatory motion of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) in recognition of the importance of the scientific studies conducted in different areas of knowledge such as mathematics, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An event called ‘K-Food Night’ was held in São Paulo, Brazil on December 12 to introduce local recipes using Korean agricultural products. The Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corp. (aT) office in Brazil organized the event to promote Korean produce and help stimulate local demand. Before the event, Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop is rapidly becoming an established genre in Brazil’s pop culture scene. An annual K-pop contest was held in downtown Sao Paulo at the Mart Center on Friday evening. Previously, 71 teams from across Brazil took part in the preliminaries with 16 teams making the cut to perform live [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Mubeat, a new K-pop video streaming service, has opened its service in Brazil, according to the company Friday. The app developed by Vlending, a joint entertainment venture formed by MBC and SBS Contents Hub, started its service in the South American country this month, the company announced. The service [...]