Alpargatas S.A.
Alpargatas S.A. is one of the largest Brazilian manufacturing company in the footwears and canvass business. Its main product is ''Havaianas'', one of the largest Brazilian brands of rubber flip-flops, since 1962. History It was founded in 1907, under the original name of ''Fábrica Brasileira de Alpargatas e Calçados'', by Robert Fraser (from Scotland and Argentina), in association with an English company. Fraser had also established Alpargatas factories in Argentina and Uruguay. It started production in the Mooca district of São Paulo (city). Already in 1909, the company - under the name ''São Paulo Alpargatas Company S.A.'' - found success in selling its products thanks to the use of sandals and canvas in coffee production. In the 1930s, shareholding control of São Paulo Alpargatas was transferred to the Argentine company. However, in 1982, after a gradual process of nationalization of capital started in 1948, São Paulo Alpargatas ceased to have Argentine participa ...
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Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ...
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