The Mater Dei hospital network is buying 95% of Emec, the largest private hospital in Feira de Santana (state of Bahia), for around R$200 million. This is the group’s second acquisition in the first 40 days of the year. In January, the network disbursed almost R$250 million for Hospital Premium, in Goiânia (state of Goiás). […]
At the age of 14, Celso Athayde’s task was to help his mother take other children from the Favela do Sapo, in Rio de Janeiro’s west zone, to the beach in exchange for payment. The informal business, called “Mãe Praieira”, gave parents the tranquility to go out to work without the fear of leaving their […]
President Jair Bolsonaro early January signed into law the legal framework for local energy generation, the so-called distributed generation. It generated urgency in the development of new projects in Brazil. The sector foresees a “gold rush” this year to guarantee the use of the distributors network, the so-called Tusd. The haste is explained because the […]
NOOA Science and Agricultural Technology will invest R$42 million to expand the capacity of its bio-inputs factory, located in Patos de Minas (state of Minas Gerais). Founded in 2016, the company has already invested R$100 million in research and currently delivers biological solutions for the cultivation of corn but intends to launch biological solutions for […]
The acceptance of Central Bank´s instant-payment system Pix as a means of payment in the largest online stores in the country reached a record level of 64.4% in January, according to a study by consultancy Gmattos, obtained by Valor. A year ago, this percentage was only 16.9%. If the growth rate is maintained, it is […]
The merger between health plan operators Hapvida and NotreDame Intermédica (GNDI) will generate a R$1.4 billion increase in the combined company’s EBTIDA until 2024. Of this amount, 40% of synergies will be captured this year, and most of the gains will come from the increase in revenue with the creation of a medical plan with […]
The government intends to inject credit into micro and small companies in 2022, special advisor to the Economy Ministry Guilherme Afif Domingos told Valor. He expects volumes to continue growing. From April 2020 until now, R$146.9 billion have been released, according to data from Portal do Empreendedor, a gateway to small independent businesses. “It will […]
Cash transfer programs are taking up more space in the government’s welfare budget. The change gained strength with the pandemic and tends to continue at least this year, with cash transfer program Auxílio Brasil. At the same time, some public policy experts warn that the federal government has paid less attention to social programs that […]
In the mid-1990s, a 21-year-old boy approached the management of chocolate manufacturer Lacta offering the use of bacteria as a solution to a problem in the production line. “You’re crazy,” was what he heard. Sometime later, however, the then tie salesman Luiz Chacon heard a very different reaction from the same executives. “Set up a […]
While the trade balance as a whole ended 2021 with a record surplus, the manufacturing industry saw its deficit deepen to $53.3 billion, the worst result since 2014. In the pre-pandemic period, in 2019, the negative balance was $42 billion, according to data from the Institute for Industrial Development Studies (IEDI). In another type of […]