2014 World Cup Highlights Brazil Business Growth
The upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil brings the eyes of the world to Brazil and its business growth opportunities. Your business can profit from Brazil business growth by using toll free call forwarding.
Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2016 summer Olympic Games. Development needed to host these two massive events will require intensive economic investment to improve urban areas and Brazil’s transportation infrastructure.
The first World Cup match takes place on Saturday, 14 June with an England-Italy match in Manaus, followed by a match featuring Ivory Coast v Japan in Recife. Note that the matches take place around the country, including Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. A total of 12 cities in Brazil will host matches. This provides more access to matches for devoted Brazilian fans, but it’s also enabling economic development that’s distributed more evenly across all populated regions of Brazil.
Projected Business Growth in Brazil
The World Banks states that Brazil has a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $2,223 trillion (US), making it the seventh wealthiest economy in the world. Brazil is the largest country in its region by population and land area.
Brazil’s 2014 economy is expected to grow by 2.3 percent. This compares with 2.6% for the United States, 1.3% for the European Union, 6.2% for India, 7.5% for China, and 3.9% for South Korea.
Cautious Voices See Slight Delay in Economic Boom
In a copyrighted story on 17 December 2013, Reuters reported that between distractions for actual matches and existing Carnival events, there’ll be little time for actual work in 2014. Reuters wrote:
A tongue-in-cheek “Brazilian 2014 Calendar” making the rounds on Facebook jokes that, because of the soccer World Cup, an unusually late Carnival, other holidays and a presidential election, real work will only be possible during three months next year.
The article goes on to quote one economist who forecasts a worst-case one-time 0.3 percent dip in Brazil’s 2014 GDP, now forecast at between 2.3% and 2.6% for 2014.
Toll Free Numbers Let You Reach Brazilian Markets
VoIP enabled toll free numbers let you share Brazil business growth
Your company can take advantage of Brazil business growth. You can reach customers in Brazil with toll free numbers that let customers in Brazil, either businesses or consumers, make toll-free calls for sales and service to your offices nearly anywhere in the world, including the US, Australia, China, India, or Europe. In fact, you can have the toll free calls from Brazil forwarded to nearly any location in the world, including land lines, mobile numbers, or SIP connections (soft phones).
A simple explanation of how call forwarding works shows that you can advertise your toll free number in Brazil, including its major cities where World Cup matches will take place. You can use time-of-day routing to direct calls to the right location at any hour of the day. So, if you have an office in New York City and an office in Singapore, you can route calls to the office that’s open at the time you receive the call.
CallForwarding.com offers a first month of service free, so that you can sign up at no initial cost and pay only for actual minutes used.