by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Consumer Brands & Beauty
⚡ TL;DRNatura &Co is Brazil’s beauty pioneer — Luiz Seabra’s 1969 belief that cosmetics sell wellbeing and relationships built a direct-selling giant, the world’s largest B Corp and Amazon-sourcing standard-setter. Its audacious...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Consumer Brands & Beauty
⚡ TL;DRAmbev is Latin America’s beverage colossus — born from the 2000 merger of century-old rivals Brahma and Antarctica, engineered by the Garantia trio of Lemann, Telles and Sicupira, and the corporate DNA source of what became AB InBev, the...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSLC Agricola is the world’s reference listed farmer — the Logemann family’s Rio Grande do Sul machinery dynasty turned cerrado mega-producer, farming three-quarters of a million hectares of soy, cotton and corn across seven states. Its...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRAmaggi is the Maggi family’s private grain empire — Brazil’s largest homegrown soybean group, built from Andre Maggi’s 1977 seed business into a vertically integrated machine of farms, silos, river barges, ports and trading desks...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMarfrig is Marcos Molina’s beef empire — founded in 2000, only the third-largest Brazilian meatpacker for years, until a sequence of contrarian bets (National Beef in the US, BASF-grade discipline at home, the patient conquest of BRF) made its...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRBRF was born in 2009 from the shotgun merger of Sadia and Perdigao — Brazil’s two beloved food brands, one wrecked by derivatives in the 2008 crash. It became the world’s top chicken exporter and halal-market leader, stumbled through...