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The chairmen: Brazil looks for help from its neighbors in conquering the world's furniture...

By Rapoza, Kenneth
Publication: Latin Trade
Date: Saturday, January 1 2005

BENTO GONCALVEZ, BRAZIL

Todeschini, a US$73 million furniture company in Rio Grande do Sul, owns an ll,000-hectare forest. Thanks to fast-growing pine and eucalyptus trees, which generate raw material at lower-than-market price for the furniture plant, Todeschini also has built a $400,000 export facility, gunning for Mercosul and overseas markets. Todeshini pumps out 8,000 pieces of furniture a day, making it one of the biggest plants in Brazil.

"It's our raw material investment we made over 20 years ago that makes this possible," says Niri Basso, industrial

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