Entities associated with Apex-Brasil participate in the 2022 Strategic Alignment Workshop

The president of the Brazilian Center for Dimension Stone Exporters (Centrorochas), Tales Machado, the vice-president, Fabio Cruz, and the manager of the sectorial project It’s Natural – Brazilian Natural Stone, Rogério Ribeiro, participated in the opening of the 2022 Strategic Alignment Workshop organized by the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) for partner entities.

Held in São Paulo, the workshop was attended by the agency’s president, Augusto Pestana, who highlighted the need for everyone to unite and form partnerships to maximize sectors. “It is fundamental that we explore our convergences more and more”, he said, reinforcing the importance of the presence of Brazil and national products in the world market, in addition to the need to evolve the management tools and execution of agreements in these new times of pandemic.

Apex-Brasil’s director of corporate management, Roberto Escoto, presented the digital transformation the agency has undergone. “The pandemic has enhanced the importance of digital transformation in all companies and, for us, it was no different, not least because the agency needs to lead certain movements”, he pointed out before detailing the processes that were modernized.

The importance of entities as replicators of actions and the importance of Apex-Brasil was exalted by the agency’s business director, Lucas Fiuza, who also addressed the power of integration ‘exports and investments’ and union between public and private sectors. “Brazil has changed, we live in a totally different business environment. We are no longer the country of the future, but of the present”, he pointed out.

When presenting Apex-Brasil’s intelligence planning for 2022, the market intelligence manager, Igor Celeste, reinforced the integration of all in the coordination of efforts to share information and knowledge. “This union is fundamental because we have big challenges. Our intelligence planning spans 15 focus countries. Some of these locations have Apex-Brasil offices and are commercial hubs, but the fact is that sectorial projects are of great importance in the development of this productive value chain”, he detailed.

In his speech, the Chief of Staff of the Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joaquim Penna, spoke about the new structure that divided the sectors into similar areas and reinforced President Pestana’s words about the need for unity ‘ public versus private’. “We need to increase exports and increase the added value of Brazilian products”, he stressed, completing the importance of using commercial intelligence and integration with local entities when working with the foreign market. “The world does not know the energy matrix of Brazil’s production chain, which is the best among the 20 main economies”, he pointed out.

The president of Centrorochas, Tales Machado, was one of the associated entities to demonstrate. In addition to thanking the national agency for its partnership, he pointed out the lack of containers that has been affecting the sector. “First, I would like to thank Apex-Brasil for all the partnership and work it has been carrying out with the national productive sectors. The Brazilian rock sector ranks first in the world in terms of geological diversity. We are the fifth largest producer and exporter in the world and we want to go further. We rely on this partnership to further promote our products and contribute to Brazil’s image abroad. We have been suffering from the lack of containers that has been affecting the shipment of our materials abroad, but despite this difficulty, the sector managed to increase exports. We had, this year, the best first semester of the last five years”, he concluded.

About It’s Natural – Brazilian Natural Stone

It’s Natural – Brazilian Natural Stone is an export incentive program developed by the Brazilian Center for Ornamental Stones Exporters (Centrorochas) in partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil). This program aims to increase exports of Brazilian ornamental stones, through a set of strategic internationalization actions with promotion actions, strengthening the image and development of the sector in the world market.

About Centrorochas

The Centro Brasileiro dos Exportadores de Pedras Ornamentais acts directly in the procedures related to the presence of Brazilian businessmen abroad combined with commercial and operational activities related to the development and evolution of Brazilian companies.

About Apex-Brasil

Apex-Brasil acts to promote Brazilian products and services abroad and attract foreign investment to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy. To achieve these goals, the Agency carries out diversified trade promotion actions aimed at promoting exports and adding value to products.and Brazilian services abroad, such as prospective and commercial missions, business roundtables, support for the participation of Brazilian companies in major international fairs, visits by foreign buyers and opinion makers to learn about the Brazilian productive structure, among other business platforms that also aim to aim to strengthen the Brazil brand.