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Recently we’ve added new events and again new seminars to our calendar. Have a closer look!
Our seminars will be held in at our new location in Stuttgart. We focus on small groups with a max. no. of 6-8 persons. Please feel free to contact us for further information.
We proudly present – we have changed our location to a new and better office. The new location is situated around the court quarter in Stuttgart East near Kerner Platz. Please note the address as follows:
Koeninger & Partner UB
Urbanstrasse 72, 70182 Stuttgart, Germany
Phone. +49-711-504-7738-0
Please feel free to call and visit us for a coffee break.
Recently we’ve updated our sales seminars and added new topics and dates. If interested you can contact us very easily using the contact form below the 2013 seminars – not just for booking, but also for getting information or simply getting in touch with us. Please have a look at our seminars!
The end of the year is often a period to have a view at our trash boxes, our article collections and other stuff run ashore over the last year. Here is a small collection of worthy articles … the majority unfortunately in German:
Recently I’ve found also new developments in mobility, which are again worthy to have a look at. In 2007 I already read about a sportscar from TESLA, as you can see here. This producer will now present the car of the year 2013 with a range of unbelievable 480 kilometers (!!) – who is telling us stories about hybrid technology?. Please have a look at a recent video MOTOR TREND car of the year 2013 (English). By the way, the TESLA investors Mercedes Benz and Toyota are going to use part of the innovations in their new products.
Considering the ethanol technology used in Brazil and the All-In-One engines, one might think „OK this will not be of importance in Brazil for the next 10 years“ – read here about actual developments in Sao Paulo. Even innovations in the hybrid technology are under consideration.
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We thank you for your confidence and trust in 2012 and your ongoing activities in 2013.
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According to the newspaper „Estado de Sao Paulo“ Brazil again lost rank 6 in the list of the strongest economies in the world to Great Britain due to the weak real and world economic crisis. Brazil will gain it back only in 2016, according to the EIA – Economist Intelligence Unit.
Some months ago officials supported a weaker currency, as they argues about benefits for the increase of production factors. Considering the statement above, no one wonders that in the meantime officials from the central bank of Brazil argues that the Brazilian Real weakened too much (Businessweek – Bloomberg)
Organized by BW-International (Read more and/or apply)
The North-Eastern part of Brazil is by far the fastest growing business area in the country. Cities like Recife, Joao Pessoa and Fortaleza are facing an so called industrial spring in industries of energy, construction & building, textile and tourism.
Besides touristic flavour and the vision of the two megaevents „Copa del Mundo 2014“ and „Olympic Games 2016“, Rio de Janeiro is the industrial base to some of the largest companies in Brazil, like Vale and Petrobras – a very good idea to participate this excellent event and gain actual market information.
Applications can be done til 14.12.2012 – so hurry up!
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As already announced on the German-Brazilian-Economic Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, 2011, the local authorities has decided to redesign the prot area and to demolish the port highway „Perimetrial“ – it will disappear in near future, the reconstruction is already going.
The following video of O Globo (Redesign Perimetral) gives a vision of the new port area and the surprising possibilities for urban life. Worthwile looking !
In particular, a very inconspicuous detail in this video is very cool – a new city train, metro, up-way (call it as you like). In former times the old (no, very old!) „bondinha“ in Santa Teresa was used from citizens and tourists as well . Since some years it became closed due to an accident, this new idea seems to be a real innovation in the public transport concept.
A more detailed view on the present situation and on some details concerning the activities can be viewed here (Construction details).
Source: Alexander Koeninger, 2011
Sustainable and energy efficient building is an often discussed topic and of general interest in the Brazilian construction industry and the public sphere. In particular for gaining a certificate according to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) or Aqua (Alta Qualidade Ambiental) the number of applications between 2009 and 2010 increased to 75%. Nowadays, Brazil is ranking on place 4 (!) worldwide with 371 buildings in the certification process.
Baden-Württemberg International, Handwerk International Baden-Württemberg and the Ministry of Economics and Finance of Baden-Württemberg are organizing an official business trip with representatives of German companies of Baden-Württemberg. The visit from 15.-24.04.2012 will include Curitiba, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
This trip is an excellent opportunity and platform for companies in the area of building and construction to present their products and services to an interested Brazilian attendance. Application can be done til 29.02.2012. Read more about about the trip and details for applying.
Yesterday TV had a quite surprisingly report about the longest bus trip in Europe. From Germany about Austria the busses hit finally the Turkish border – almost 2.650 km. The report in Abenteuer Leben/KabelEins titled „bustrip for hard-boiled travellers“ , selling the trip as something completely extraordinary.
1986 as a student and on my fourth trip to Brazil I took the bus from Rio de Janeiro to Recife. Almost 40 hours on the road I spent about 3 days along 2350 km. Nowadays, this long distance busses are still working and used to be a very common and first and foremost working (!) public transport throughout Brazil. Did you ever try to get ahead and pass one of them? Using a speed of about more than 100 km/hour under „Brazilian conditions“, this giants of the road are almost invincible.
(Source: Packtours )
Taking the example in Abenteuer Leben – of course in Brazil noone would think about something extraordinary. Look at the following schedule – an even three times longer trip. Starting at Porto Alegre in the South towards Sao Paulo (1150 km), Sao Paulo – Rio de Janeiro (430 km), Rio de Janeiro – Recife (2400 km), Recife – Fortaleza (844 km), Fortaleza – Sao Luis (1070 km), and finally towards Belem in the North (810 km), the whole trip takes 6704 km and about 5 days. And I am afraid there are even longer ones.