Brasilinvest Group -
Brazil
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ian
company, established in 1975 by
Mário Garnero, Headquarters in
São Paulo
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.
Over its 35 years of history, the Brasilinvest Group has consolidated the assembly of dozens of economic projects and entrepreneurial management, from the transference and nationalization of
ITT-Standard Electric SA and
NEC
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, in the 1980s, to the assessment, in the 1990s, of the new partnership structure of
Cofap and
Bombril. It also assisted the stock-option restructuring of
Fiat, the creation of
Volkswagen
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’s leasing unit, as well as
Varig
VARIG (acronym for Viação Aérea RIo-Grandense, ''Rio Grandean Airways'') was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927. From 1965 until 1990, it was Brazil's leading airline, and virtually its only international one. In 2005, Varig went ...
and Volkswagen's rent-a-car units.
In the
agribusiness sector, it has assisted the process of industrial installation of
Boehringer in
Suape,
Pernambuco
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, and taken part in enterprises such as
Celupa (Paper and Cellulose Industrial Company Guaiba) and
Mellita.
In addition, the Brasilinvest Group has and important international profile, with partners in 16 countries and prominent representatives from all around the world who are part of the group's Board of Advisors. Brasilinvest has been a pioneer in discussing themes such as globalization and its effects on the Brazilian market, with the planning, along with the Forum of the Americas, of important conferences and events aiming to promote investment opportunities in Brazil, with particular distinction to the
Salzburg
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Conference in,
Austria
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(1975), and events in the
Principality of Monaco
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(2000),
Paris
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(2003),
Rome
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(2004),
London
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(2005), and in
New York City
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(2007-2008). It has led equally important business initiatives in the Asian market, with the increase in commercial and capital exchange through the establishment of the first Brazilian representation office in
Beijing
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,
China, back in 1981.
Brasilinvest has also a strong history in
real estate
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projects, being responsible for the development of over 3.7 million square meters of edifications in the State of
São Paulo
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alone, as well as important real estate projects in the
United States of America
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and
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.
The Brasilinvest Group currently ranks number 128 on the annual report of Brazil's largest corporations, published by Brazilian financial magazine Gazeta Mercantil.
[Balanço Anual 2008.Gazeta Mercantil Magazine. p 38.]
In 1985 the
Central Bank of Brazil
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The bank is not linked to any ministry, currently being autonomous. Like other central banks ...
liquidated Brasilinvest. The irregularities found led the then Minister of Finance,
Francisco Dornelles, to seek the preventive detention of Mário Garnero . The Communications Minister
Antônio Carlos Magalhães
Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães (4 September 1927 – 20 July 2007), also known by his initials ACM, was a Brazilian politician. He served as Governor of Bahia three times and represented Bahia in the Senate of Brazil three times.
Magalhãe ...
suspended the payment of a debt of equivalent US$30 million from a contract to supply equipment already delivered by
NEC Brasil to
Telebrás
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. The transfer of NEC Brasil 's shareholding control from entrepreneur Mário Garnero to publisher
Roberto Marinho was consummated in October 1986.
References
External links
Brasilinvest WebsiteThe Hour of the Nightmare: So You Want to Invest in Brazilian Real Estate?*
Beyond Citizen Kane
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