Pasta and biscuits industry Invoice R Bi $39.2

The categories of cookies, pasta, breads and cakes had revenue of industrialized R $39.2 billion in 2017, indentation of 0.6% compared with the previous year, according to industry association's balance sheet, the Abimapi. "Brazil has purchased smaller value-added products," said the Chief Executive Officer of the entity, Claudio Zanão. In volumes, sales reached 3.5 million tons, retracting 3% on the same basis of comparison. The survey pointed out, too, that industries showed growth of 34% in sales and 4.5% in volume when compared with the results of the last five years. The cookies and the masses are present in 99.6% of households, while the industrialized breads and cakes in 76.2% and 50.7%, respectively. Biscuit industries billing cookie industries was pretty close to that of 2016, reaching the mark of R$24,054 billion. In relation to the volume, 1,820,000 tons were sold. Pasta pasta market moved R $8.751 billion. National production registered a fall of 2.87% in 2017, with the total number of 1,208,000 tons. The dried pasta were the most consumed with revenues of $5.443 billion and 989,347 R tonnes in volume. Breads the scenario of the so-called "loaves" remained stable, with 0.46% growth in turnover in relation to 2016, reaching R $5.606 billion. By volume, falling 4.53%, reaching 433,911 tons last year.