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Ultrapar
The Ultra Group is a Brazilian conglomerate operating in the industry segments of energy and logistics infrastructure through its subsidiaries Ipiranga (company), Ipiranga, Ultragaz and Ultracargo. These subsidiaries are fully controlled by the holding company Ultrapar. The Group's shares are traded under the name Ultrapar on B3 (stock exchange), São Paulo (B3) and on NYSE American, New York (NYSE) stock exchanges. Based on its financial statements, the Ultra Group, in 2022, was one of the 10 largest business groups in Brazilwith a net revenue of R$147 billion Furthermore, the group was included in thFortune magazineranking of the 500 largest global business groups published for 2019 and in 7th position in the Value 1000 ranking of the largest Brazilian business groups. History The origins of Ultrapar Participações SA (Ultra) date back to 1937 with the founding of the company “Empreza Brasileira de Gás a Domicílio” by Ernesto Igel. This was the first Brazilian company t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extrafarma
Extrafarma is the drugstore chain owned by Ultrapar. The company is among the top 10 largest pharmacy chains in Brazil, with stores located throughout the north, northeast and southern regions of the country. The company has more than 400 stores in 10 States and more than 7000 employees. History Pedro de Castro Lazera founded the company Imifarma on 2 December 1960. It was initially focused on the drug distribution market. In the 1990s, Imifarma started to operate in the retail market through its own network of pharmacies under the name Extrafarma. The store chain began in the city of Belém and expanded to other areas in the state of Pará and in the neighbor state of Amapá. Later, it expanded to the states of Maranhão, Ceará, Piauí and Rio Grande do Norte. In 2013, Extrafarma was acquired by Ultra Ultra may refer to: Science and technology * Ultra (cryptography), the codename for cryptographic intelligence obtained from signal traffic in World War II * Adobe Ultr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultracargo
Ultracargo is Brazil's largest bulk liquids storage company, primarily operating in the storage of chemicals, petrochemicals, biofuel, and vegetable oil. Ultracargo operates under the Ultra group along with Ipiranga, Ultragaz, Oxiteno and Extrafarma. Ultracargo is the only operator in its sector with a presence in all major ports of Brazil. It has facilities in the Port of Santos, Port of Rio de Janeiro, Port of Paranaguá; Port of Aratu in Bahia; Porto do Itaqui in São Luís, Maranhão and Suape Port in Pernambuco. Additionally, they have terminals in Paulínia, state of São Paulo. History The company began in 1966 as Transultra, which operated in both road transport and chemical storage. In 1978, Tequimar Chemical Terminal was founded in the Port of Aratu. When Transultra and Tequimar eventually merged into one logistics operation, it was rebranded as Ultracargo. In 1986, Ultracargo began the construction of a 45,000 m² storage unit at the Suape Terminal in Pernambuco. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultragaz
Ultragaz is a Brazilian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution company. It originated as part of the company Empresa Brasileira de Gás a Domicílio, created by Ernesto Igel, founder of Ultra Group. Ultragaz is the largest LPG distributor in Brazil, with 46 percent market share. It provides gas to about 15 million households in the bottled LPG segment and more than 90,000 customers in bulk. History Austrian entrepreneur Ernesto Igel moved to Brazil from Vienna in 1920, and founded Empresa Brasileira de Gás à Domicílio in 1937. The company was the first in Brazil to distribute household gas. Empresa Brasileira de Gás à Domicílio started small with three delivery trucks and less than 200 customers. By the early 1960s, operating as Ultragaz, the company served a customer base of 1 million users. In 1997, Ultragaz introduced UltraSystem, the LPG bulk delivery system. In 2003, Ultragaz acquired Shell's LPG distribution business in Brazil, Shell Gas. Ultragaz also intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipiranga (company)
Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo S.A, commonly shortened to Ipiranga (), is a Brazilian fuel company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is a subsidiary of Ultrapar, Ultra. It is the second-largest Brazilian fuel distribution company, and the largest in the private sector. The company has about 6,500 gas stations across the country and 1,400 convenience stores. Ipiranga owns the Brazilian operations of the ampm chain of convenience stores, Jet Oil oil change services, Km de Vantagens loyalty program, and ConectCar prepaid system for electronic payment of tolls and parking. Etymology ''Ipiranga'' combines the indigenous Tupi words ''‘y'' (river) and ''pirang'' (red) to mean "red river". History Destilaria Rio-Grandense de Petróleo S.A., the first Brazilian refinery, was founded in November 1934 by Brazilian and Argentinian investors in Uruguaiana, state of Rio Grande do Sul. The refinery produced full-scale gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil, and fuel oil. In August 1936, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxiteno
Oxiteno is a Brazilian multinational manufacturer of surfactants and chemicals. The company develops and supplies raw materials to industries in over 30 sectors including cosmetics, personal care, household cleaning and industrial, agrochemicals, paints and varnishes. Oxiteno operates in nine countries throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. It has three research and development centers, twelve industrial plants in Brazil, the United States, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well as commercial offices in Argentina, Belgium, China, and Colombia. According to research conducted by Info Exame magazine in partnership with ESPM, Oxiteno was appointed as the ninth most innovative company in Brazil in 2014. On April 4, 2022, the company was acquired by Indorama Ventures. History Founded in 1970 by Paulo Cunha, Oxiteno was the first company to produce ethylene oxide and derivatives in Brazil. Its first plant was installed at the Mauá Petrochemical Complex, in the outskirts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Igel
Ernesto Igel (27 November 1893 – 24 January 1966) was an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of the company Empresa Brasileira de Gáz a Domilicio Ltda, the first Brazilian gas distribution network of fuel for cooking equipment (LPG). In 1938, the company changed its name to Ultragaz S.A. Through Ultragaz's growth and the creation of new companies, Ernesto Igel founded Ultra, also known as Ultrapar. Early life Born to a family of merchants in Vienna, Austria, Igel was the eldest of five children. At 15, he got his first job at an import-export company. At 21, he was drafted to the Austrian army to fight in World War I. He was sent to Romania, where he served as a management assistant. Career After the war, Igel moved to Brazil in 1920, when he was 26 years old. He then established the company Ernesto Igel & Cia., an importer of tableware, sanitary metals, stoves and heaters for use with pipeline gas. During his trips to Europe, Igel got to work with the then-new gas bottling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NYSE American
NYSE American, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and more recently as NYSE MKT, is an American stock exchange situated in New York City. AMEX was previously a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX on October 1, 2008, with AMEX integrated with the Alternext European small-cap exchange and renamed the NYSE Alternext U.S. In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U.S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities. On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC. Following the SEC approval of competing stock exchange IEX in 2016, NYSE MKT rebranded as NYSE American and introduced a 350-microsecond delay in trading, referred to as a "speed bump", which is also present on the IEX. History The Curb market The exchange grew out of the loosely organized curb market of curbstone brokers on Broad Street in Manhattan. Efforts to organize and standardize the market started ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is the List of stock exchanges, largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, exceeding $25 trillion in July 2024. The NYSE is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, an American holding company that it also lists (ticker symbol ICE). Previously, it was part of NYSE Euronext (NYX), which was formed by the NYSE's 2007 merger with Euronext. According to a Gallup, Inc., Gallup poll conducted in 2022, approximately 58% of American adults reported having money invested in the stock market, either through individual stocks, mutual funds, or 401(k), retirement accounts. __FORCETOC__ History The earliest recorded organization of Security (finance), securities trading in New York among brokers directly dealing with each other can be traced to the Buttonwood Agreement. Previously, secu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BM&FBOVESPA
B3 S.A. – Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão (in English, ''B3 – Brazil Stock Exchange and Over-the-Counter Market''), formerly BM&FBOVESPA, is a stock exchange located in São Paulo, Brazil, and the second oldest in the country. Its current form can be traced back to May 8, 2008, when the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) and the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) merged, creating BM&FBOVESPA. On March 30, 2017, BM&FBOVESPA merged with CETIP, creating ''B3''. It also has offices in Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, and London. The benchmark indicator of B3 is the Índice Bovespa, more commonly known as ''Ibovespa''. There were 475 companies traded at Bovespa as of October 2022. On June 7, 2021, the Ibovespa index reached its record market closing above 130,776 points. History Founded on August 23, 1890, by Emilio Rangel Pestana, the "Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo" (São Paulo Stock Exchange, in English) has had a long history of services provided to the stock market and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of Santos
The Port of Santos (in Portuguese: ''Porto de Santos'') is in the city of Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. As of 2024, it was thsecond busiest container port in Latin America.In 2022, it was considered the 40th largest port in the world for container handling, and the 35th per ton, according to the AAPA - American Association of Port Authorities ranking, being the busiest in Latin America. It possesses a wide variety of cargo handling terminals—solid and liquid bulk, containers, and general loads. It is Brazil's leading port in container traffic. The terrestrial access system to the port is made up by the Anchieta and Imigrantes highways and by the railroads operated by Ferroban and MRS. It was once considered the "port of death" in the 19th century due to yellow fever, and ships often avoided docking at the wood plank port. The floods in the city's area provoked illnesses. Today it is Latin America's largest port. Its structure is considered Brazil's most modern. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
