President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov meets with top management of JBS Company
15 August 2011, Monday
President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov offered top management of JBS Company (Brazil) to visit Republic and assess the possibility of creating a joint enterprise for producing beef.
Tatarstan delegation met with executives of JBS in São Paulo city. During negotiations Rustam Minnikhanov introduced agro-industrial complex of republic and expressed interest towards cooperation with Brazil agricultural giant. “Tatastan offers to foreign investors a developed industrial, transport and innovative infrastructure, high scientific and technical potential”, - Rustam Minnikhanov emphasized.
“JBS is not only a global leader in meat production. You are leaders on all stages of commercial and industrial network. Thus we are particularly interested in cooperation in order to promote interests of entrepreneurs in both countries, their interaction in developing joint production”, - RT President said.
Members of JBS executive board Mr Marcus Pratini de Moraes was also interested in prospects of industrial cooperation with Tatarstan for the purpose of company expansion and entering global markets.
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JBS is one of the largest companies around the world in the sphere of beef production. The company is still managed as a minor family enterprise. It was founded in 1953.
Today the company is a global leader in beef production, and one of the largest producers of poultry meat in the world with plants, farms and branches all over the world, from Argentina to Italy, from Asia to Central America.
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