PRESS RELEASE - Cachaca

UNIT has just concluded a commercial agreement with Industria de Bebidas Pirassununga (IBP) with the purpose to market the brazilian sugar cane distillated called "cachaca" all over the world. Since 1999 UNIT has been exporting bulk cachaca for various countries where local liquor companies bottle their own products.
Now, in partnership with IBP, UNIT expects to double its cachaca sales in the next 2 years.
According to John Laurino, UNIT's CEO : "the brazilian cachaca is gaining market all over the world mainly in the US which is already the biggest cachaca importer and, despite the impact of the economic crisis in all segments, the prospects for our product are very good in the long term" .
In fact, a couple of big american liquor bottlers have been investigating the possibility to launch cachaca labels in North America for at least 3 years and if such plans take off there will be a big jump on volumes in a very fast way, adds John Laurino.
IBP is one of the major cachaca players in Brazil and it has been in the market for almost 100 years. With its main facility located in Pirassununga (state of Sao Paulo), IBP sells various cachaca brands such as "21", "Vila Velha" and "Cambraia" . IBP is also a leading vodka bottler with nationwide sales force.

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Unit to Market Amazon Oils

Unit Brazil, a brokering company headquartered in Sao Paulo, has just been hired as the export agent to market amazon oils and butters produced by Engefar, a qualified cosmetics raw materials supplier located in the state of Para. Engefar's products are oils and butters extracted from exotic fruit pulps and seeds of the rain forest region such as : buriti, acai, copaiba, muru-muru, andiroba, etc, raw materials that have functional elements which are desirable to upgrade formulations.

For example, the acai oil, extracted from the acai berry pulp can add antioxindant power to moisturizing creams and shampoos. The buriti oil is widely used as a solar filter for sking protection while pracachi is a new finding for pregnant skin repair.

The amazon oils and butters may be an interesting raw material to any cosmetics maker all over the world.

According to John Laurino, Unit's CEO : "we are amazed to see such fast positive feedback from major cosmetics ingredients distributors all over the world, it is like we are offering them a golden raw material , capable to upgrade their product's profile".

John Laurino is a 14 years background international broker and according to him, the amazon oils he just added to his portfolio may represent a USD 20 million/year business in a couple of years.