by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Agribusiness & Food, Brazil Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRJBS is the world’s largest meat and protein company — built from a 1953 Anapolis butcher shop by the Batista family into a global machine slaughtering across four continents, feeding hundreds of millions daily through brands from Swift to...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRPrio — born PetroRio — built Brazil’s leading independent oil company on a contrarian model: buy mature offshore fields the majors abandon, slash costs, drill smart tie-backs and squeeze decades of profitable life from ‘dead’...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRCosan is Rubens Ometto’s infrastructure-energy holding: from a family sugar mill in Piracicaba to controlling stakes in Raizen (bioenergy), Compass (natural gas), Rumo (railways), Moove (lubricants) and farmland platform Radar — capped by an...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DREletrobras is Latin America’s largest electricity company — the state holding created in 1962 that built Brazil’s continental hydro-transmission system, then starred in the country’s boldest privatization: the R$33 billion...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRRaizen is the world’s largest sugarcane processor and ethanol producer — a 50-50 joint venture created in 2011 by Brazil’s Cosan and Shell, combining vast cane mills with Shell-branded fuel stations. It is Brazil’s bet that...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRSamarco — the Vale-BHP iron ore joint venture — caused Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when its Fundao dam collapsed at Mariana in 2015; Vale’s own Brumadinho dam followed in 2019, killing 270. Together the tragedies produced...
