Editora Abril has two potential buyers. According to columnist Lauro Jardim, of the newspaper O Globo, a group formed by São Paulo businessmen, including Guilherme Leal - one of the partners of the cosmetics company Natura - made an offer for the company. Another proposal was made by Fabio Carvalho, shareholder of Casa & Vídeo and controller of Leader Magazine. Nearly 70 years old, Editora Abril publishes, among other titles, magazines Veja and Exame. The company has been in judicial recovery since August, when it declared a debt of R $ 1.6 billion.
Informality hits record and reaches four out of 10 Brazilians. Of a total of 92.6 million people employed between June and September 2018, about 39.7 million had no formal contract, according to a new survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography (IBGE). The percentage of informality - 43% - is the highest ever recorded in a quarter since 2015. In the same period, unemployment fell by 0.5%, strongly driven by the entry of workers into the informal market. According to Tendências, of the 1.3 million people who returned to work in the period, 601 thousand worked in the private sector without a formal contract.
Smart Fit will invest R $ 572 million in 2019. The network of academies plans to open 84 own units next year. According to the Fitch rating agency, 55% of these inaugurations will be in Brazil. Currently, there are 340 academies in the country and another 260 abroad. The investment will happen despite the debt of the Bio Ritmo Group, controller of Smart Fit, to be R $ 2.5 billion. The company's revenue in the first half was R $ 478.4 million.
Older caregiver is the fastest growing occupation in ten years. The number of professionals in the area dropped from 5,263 in 2007 to 34,051 in 2017. The 547% increase is the highest of the 2,600 occupations surveyed by the National Confederation of Trade in Goods, Service and Tourism, which used data from the Ministry of Employment and Work for the survey. Despite growth, occupation has not yet been regulated as a profession, so there are no clear rules on minimum labor training. He processes in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate different projects that aim to determine the attributions of the function.
Coca-Cola develops universal bottle for its soft drinks. The beverage company will present in Latin America a returnable packaging that can be used by different brands that it produces, such as Sprite and Fanta. The project that started in Brazil now spreads to Chile and Argentina. Mexico should receive the bottle in 2019. The standard chosen for Brazil is the returnable 2 liter bottle. Before the project each beverage had a distinct pattern of packaging. In up to two years, all the bottles of the company will be in this new format in the country.
Idea of the day: Do you often disagree with your boss's ideas? Probably not. According to Karen Machado, the executive manager of Banco do Brasil, there is a strong tendency towards agreement in the corporate world - especially if the opinion is of someone who is above you in the company hierarchy. Most people also tend to follow what the group says, even when the view of the majority is visibly wrong. It is the old desire to be accepted and not to create conflicts. The problem with this compliance trend is that we end up perpetuating inefficient practices. To produce truly innovative solutions, we need to start disagreeing with each other:
"Conflicts of opinion are opportunities to learn ... We need to fight daily against the will to conform to the expectations of others, with the status quo"
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