Votorantim Group

Grupo Votorantim is a Brazilian company headquartered in São Paulo.

For Grupo Votorantim include companies cement, cellulose, paper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, steel beams, films of polypropylene, products, specialty chemicals and orange juice manufacture.

History

The company was founded by the Portuguese immigrants Antônio Inácio Pereira 1918 in Votorantim. His son José de Morais led Ermirio and further increases the company. As the grandson is currently Ermirio Antônio de Moraes Member of the Board of Grupo Votorantim.

Part of the conglomerate is also the Banco Votorantim (BV) and its subsidiaries BV Financeira. These currently occupy third place in the ranking financing and operating in a market with banking and financial services, which have been established by foreign investors or even longer time in the market. The BV was granted last three consecutive times the price of the Revista Exame as the best finance company of the country.

The group is multinationalisiert. Grupo Votorantim ' acquired, among other things, an aluminum plant in Canada to which the Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio heard ( CBA).

The newest branch of the group, which was founded four years ago Votorantim Ventures, an investment fund with $ 300 million in capital, which is pursuing a strategy diversified investments in future technologies and potential growth sectors such as biotechnology, bioinformatics, data and call center, e-commerce and Biodiversity.