Corporations in Brazil Shed Stay-at-Home Tradition
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Many of Brazil's biggest companies riding high at home are increasingly flexing their muscles on the international stage.
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SANGRADOURO INDIAN RESERVE, Brazil -- When the sun sinks behind the palm and mango trees, candlelight flickers throughout a tiny village of thatched huts where about 100 Xavante Indians live.
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Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., the company whose founder created the low-carbohydrate diet craze, is reorganizing and laying off employees as it faces growing competition and a slowing market.
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A growing number of Brazilians are finding it increasingly difficult to get good jobs in big metropolitan areas like SÃ£o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and are looking elsewhere.
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A batch of contaminated Brazil nuts forces a confectionery firm to close production lines at a plant.
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Conservation only starts at home. Now businesses are trying to do something about wasted energy at work too
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's president often gets  criticized by his old leftist friends for being conservative at  home. But globally he has reshaped the debate on intellectual  property rights to reflect the needs of poor nations.
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The company is a second-string wholesaler no more.
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With more people having high-speed connections at home, there will be less holiday shopping at work.
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The company that put power consumption on the map is thinking of getting out of the expensive business of making chips.
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Although mobile phones have long been a part of the business community, they are quietly becoming entrenched in personal lives.
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Business & money: Roulette wheels and huge hotels have replaced the car industry with mixed results.
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Gone perhaps are the days when a corporate tycoon could put a $6,000 shower curtain on the company tab. But being an executive in the Washington area last year still had its fringe benefits.
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The forests on Brazil's agricultural frontier will disappear without international financing to provide alternatives to slash-and-burn farming, the farm secretary of Brazil's leading soybean state said.
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More on the disappearing-public-companies phenomenon.
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Increasingly, companies are disappearing from stock exchanges.
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Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago.