Brazilian Market Shows Resilience

The Brazilian graphics market will be a wild card in 2002, industry analysts say, with growth estimated anywhere between 1 percent and 5 percent, depending on national, regional and global economics. “For 2001, we expect that the Brazilian graphics market will show sales growth of 1 percent in reals (the national currency), although that would translate into a drop of 20 percent in dollar terms to $5.4 billion from $6.7 billion the year before, because of the devaluation this year,” said Antoni...