Investment mission targets Brazil’s World Cup prospects

The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Thandi Tobias-Pokolo, is spending this week in Brazil with a delegation of 45 South African companies on an Investment and Trade Initiative. It’s is the third ITI to Brazil organised by the dti and its focus is South Africa’s World Cup legacy. The ITI will span three host cities of the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil, namely Sao Paulo, Curitiba and Porto Alegre.
It will offer emerging exporters an opportunity to learn about the export process and related logistics; get insight into the Brazilian market; and to leverage opportunities from 2014 Soccer World Cup projects.
“ITIs create an excellent platform to showcase South Africa’s manufacturing and export capabilities as well as investment prospects in the markets in which they are held, which are targeted high growth markets,” said Tobias-Pokolo.