Tag: Expo Prado Rural Show

• Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 09:05 UTC

  UK embassy in Uruguay readying for Expo-Prado 2017; Falklands will also attend

  

  Following the previous edition’s success, the British Embassy in Uruguay will be present for the fourth consecutive year at the agricultural show, Expo Prado, from 6 - 17 September, with a Pavilion centered on business, education, culture, gastronomy and entertainment, including a Falkland Islands stand.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2016 - 09:55 UTC

  “If beef is not included”, there won't be no Mercosur-EU trade agreement, warns Uruguay

  

  “If beef is not included, there won't be any agreement”, said Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa in anticipation of next week's meeting of European Union and Mercosur coordinators to adjust the list of goods and services the two blocks will formally exchange in mid October, the first formal meeting of its kind in fourteen years.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2016 - 03:49 UTC

  UK with a Great Pavilion will be present at Uruguay's main agriculture show

  

  With just a month to go until Uruguay's main agro show, Expo Prado, the British Embassy in Montevideo announces that for the third consecutive year it will be present with a Great Pavilion focused on business, education, culture, tourism, gastronomy and entertainment. British brands such as JCB Machinery, Polo Club clothing, FCR-DAS who specialise in quality management certification, fire extinguishers from Noblex, Brompton and other bicycles courtesy of Muvin will all be taking part.

• Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 07:46 UTC

  British Pavilion at Uruguay's main agriculture show, Expo Prado, next September

  

  At a breakfast at the residence of Ambassador Ben Lyster-Binns on May 25th, the British Embassy in Montevideo and the Rural Association of Uruguay (ARU) presented the proposal for the British Pavilion at Expo Prado 2016. Representatives of several companies that have ties with the UK, many of which already formed part of the pavilion in 2015 and 2014, attended the event.

• Saturday, September 19th 2015 - 07:32 UTC

  Falklands stall at the Prado rural show “a great surprise and greater success”

  

  The UK GREAT pavilion at Uruguay's main agri-business exhibition in Montevideo received the top prize for its category while a stall from the Falkland Islands, tended to by Islanders, is estimated to have been visited by 10% of the more than half million visitors that attended the week-long Expo-Prado.

• Saturday, September 19th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Falklands: “thank you” to the people of Uruguay for being so warm, welcoming and supportive

  

  A business delegation from the Falkland Islands participated in Uruguay's main agri-business show at the Prado grounds with a stall in the British GREAT pavilion. The week attendance was described as 'surprising and successful' and Falklands lawmaker Gavin Short addressed an open letter thanking all those involved in helping with the Islands' presence.

• Saturday, August 15th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  UK present at the Prado agriculture show to promote business and education

  

  The British embassy will be present at Uruguay's Prado agriculture show with a pavilion geared to promote business, education, culture, tourism, gastronomy and entertainment. The 110th edition of the Prado event, Uruguay's main agri-business display will take place in Montevideo, between September 9 and 20.

• Monday, September 1st 2014 - 10:43 UTC

  Uruguay's main agro-business show opens on Wednesday at the Prado greens

  

  Next Wednesday Uruguay's main agro-show at the Prado's greens will open to receive over 2.277 livestock among which will be selected the top cattle (meat and dairy), sheep (wool and lambs), horses and swine of the country, in a display of advanced genetics.

• Wednesday, September 11th 2013 - 22:02 UTC

  ”If Brazil devalues, Uruguay will follow”, President Mujica tells farmers

  

  President Jose Mujica said that Uruguay is ‘aligned’ with Brazil in economic policy, and if the government of President Dilma Rousseff decides to devalue its currency, “Uruguay will follow” and as Brazil, “Uruguay is not satisfied with the functioning of Mercosur”.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 08:53 UTC

  Best Angus bull at Uruguay’s Prado Show sold for 45.000 dollars to Argentina

  

  Sales in Uruguay’s main livestock show, --the 2011 edition of Expo-Prado--, totalled 765.000 dollars and 245.5 animals which is a significant improvement over the previous year (in numbers and dollars) but also because Uruguayan genetics was exported to Mercosur neighbours.