Minerva Foods, the largest beef exporter in South America, announced it became the first company in the segment to monitor 100% of its cattle suppliers in Paraguay. In the Paraguayan Chaco, Minerva claims to have more than 3,000 supplier farms. In the region, it already has 11.8 million hectares mapped through the SMGeo system, developed […]
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 […]