Several Brazilian companies which participated at the Big 5 show declared the show a grand success.

Casagrande, a maker of ceramic tiles from the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, closed deals worth $500,000 during the show.
According to a company spokesman, the company is going to export to buyers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Oman.
“Our main objective at the Big 5 show was to promote our range of products,” says export manager, Raquel Casagrande. “Our aim was to make us better known, but we are happy that it has been possible for us to strike deals as well.”
Casagrande makes between 680,000 and 700,000 sq m of ceramic floor and wall tiles a month and exports between 20 per cent and 25 per cent of the total.
Main export destinations for the company’s products in the Gulf include: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Yemen.
SBC Pierres, a specialist in quartzite from the state of Minas Gerais, also in southeastern Brazil, was another company that closed deals during the fair.
Samuel Mangia, in-charge of international sales, says although the number of contacts made was small, they were quite significant, since they were all from the construction sector. The company produces on average 20,000 sq m of quartzite a month for the domestic market and another 150 containers a month for export.
SBC Pierres has been active in the Gulf for two years. The company started selling to the region after contacts were made during participation at The Hotel Show, which takes place each year in the UAE.
Among the companies that also closed deals at the Big 5 Show were Mosarte, a manufacturer of special tiles from Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, and Pamesa, a Spanish tile maker that has operations in Recife, capital of the north-eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Other exhibitors made important contacts and prepared future deals. Several of them received quotation orders for products.
The Brazilian stand also received several people interested in representing and distributing products in the Gulf, especially the UAE.
WK Trading, from Parana, is also on the verge of clinching several deals following its participation at the Big 5. According to company director Igor Erhard Kaufeld, deals for the sales of between 30 and 40 containers of wood, had been entered into at the show.  “There are great chances of closing deals,” he said.
Braseco, which exhibited glass at the fair, believes that sales should total between 10 and 15 containers, around $150,000 over the next six months, due to contacts made at the fair.
Both Braseco and WK Trading intend to participate in the Big 5 show later this year.