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November 25, 2011
Rede Alumínio & Cia. Inaugurates store in Divinópolis (MG)
 
This unit brings to 37 the number of points of sale in various state capitals and other cities in Brazil
 
Divinópolis, in Minas Gerais State, is now home to yet another store of the retail chain, Rede Alumínio & Cia. (www.aluminioecia.com.br), an exclusive distributor of Alcoa’s extruded profiles in Brazil. The store was inaugurated on November 24th at 2570 Rua Rio de Janeiro and offers the local population the very best there is in innovation and top quality in the construction market, like aluminum profiles for windows, doors and wall cladding systems for both residential and commercial buildings. In addition to extruded products, the stores sell a great variety of other building materials, like tools and components.
 
For André Colletti, Marketing Manager, “Alcoa believes the Divinópolis region to be strategic, which is why a new  Alumínio& Cia. store has opened in this area, which is fundamental within our planning, providing as it does a local and differentiated service for construction professionals and shortly for the industrial market, too”.
 
All Rede Alumínio & Cia. Stores are staffed by trained professionals who offer technical support for professionals, frame manufactures, engineers and architects with regard to the supply of profilesfrom Alcoa’s exclusive lines, which are characterized by their high quality and the fact that they are ready for prompt delivery.
 
 
About Alcoa
Alcoa Alumínio S.A. is a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc., the world’s leading company in the production of primary and transformed aluminum and alumina. The Company has 59,000 employees in 31 countries and for the tenth consecutive year is part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Alcoa has been in Latin America and the Caribbean since the end of the 1950s and has some 7,000 employees in the region, with operations in Brazil, Jamaica and Surinam.
 
In Brazil the company operates in the whole of the aluminum production chain from bauxite mining to the production of transformed products. Alcoa has seven production units and three offices in the states of Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and the Federal District. The company also has shareholdings in four hydroelectric power stations: Machadinho and Barra Grande on the border of the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul; Serra do Facão in Goiás; and Estreito, between Maranhão and Tocantins. In 2010 Alcoa recorded revenues of US$ 1.6 billion in Brazil and was elected the Sustainable Company of the Year by GuiaExame de Sustentabilidade [Exame’s Sustainability Guide]. Further information can be found at www.alcoa.com.br.