Executives increase performance and profits in Brazil

The more robust socio-economical environment and stronger institutions for corporate governance and capital markets, have been promoting the reduction of the cost of debt with the country's reference interest rate (SELIC) currently under 12% down from its shattering values and volatility in the 90's. In the last decade, investment levels climbed to 20,4%, the credit market increased 50% -and still growing- both in relation to GDP which itself grows twice as much the world average.

As a result, developing or recovering business in Brazil is becoming increasingly attractive for/in companies of all sizes. Beyond the numbers, entrepreneurs, investors, and corporations are also capitalizing cultural affinity with Brazil's good-natured ethos and increasingly qualified and globalized business setting. For managing company investments and affiliates in Brazil, credibility and professionalism are now more readily available to international players willing to review their priorities in Latin America's giant.

A good example is Perform Management & Consulting, a boutique for management services founded in 2003. Its founding partners and associates originated from Andersen and Accenture with strong competencies in business strategy, processes, IT and change management. The company today operates through a wider network of executive associates to assume interim management or consulting assignments in client organizations or projects with a unique blend of "executive hands-on" and "consulting best-practice" approach. Perform approaches its management assignments with both client-facing interim manager or executive team and internal Management Council elected from its prominent Board of Councilors and associates which enriches on-site allocated executives with strategic relevance, commercial network and performance effectiveness. Perform's executives facilitate access to funding, strategic and commercial partners, suppliers and clients in many specialty areas and industries necessary to start-up, grow or turn-around businesses in Brazil. They sum experience in 30 countries and work and report in English, Italian, Spanish, French and, of course, Portuguese.

For more information, visit www.perform.com.br or contact +55 11 3013-3201.