About Dona Flôr & INDICO CAPITAL
Let's talk a little about the Wine and Tobacco Products Business Unit .
Smoke your cigar and drink your wine in moderation. But we want to express the warning that tobacco causes cancer and kills !
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Driven for 208 years by a passion for business and an understanding that there is strength in unity, the family came together, uniting the arrows of their family logo . The story of a Mozambican who sells wines from Spain and cigars from Brazil ! A career marked by ambition and investments.
When he left for Brazil in 2006, the Mozambican businessman thought about creating a private or investment Bank. It was a natural idea for a descendant of a powerful businesswoman. His great grandmother, Makera, was an entrepreneur, started activities in the agricultural and livestock areas and got involved with international trade. The market survey, however, revealed that the sector was saturated and reserved for a few, Ruy Silva Jr. gave up on the idea . However, although the great-grandson of a powerful businesswoman did not have to work for a living, at just 49 years old at the time, he was not about to retire. “I needed an activity”, always says Ruy Silva Jr. in clear Portuguese with a Portuguese accent.
He decided to work with commodities and include wines and cigars. Then he decided to initially work with sugar and founded UBN. UBN was destined to export sugar. Over time, however, the businessman felt the need to expand his portfolio. Today the activities having been transferred to Indico. Ruy Silva Jr., who had chosen to live in Brazil, decided back to London.
He imports wines from Spain, the Ribera del Arlanza label, the Gotas de Rocio, produced by the Ortega family. He hopes to soon expand the portfolio with wines from France, Italy, Chile, Spain and Portugal. And soon will be able to launch a virtual store for the final consumer and a wine club.
The great differential of the business is the more than special curatorship. Ruy Silva Jr. tastes all the wines and only brings the wines he would buy to drink. And he only brings cigars he would buy to smoke. That's a guarantee. Few people have the experience with quality wines and cigars that he does.
In fact, the year 2023 could be good for the wine and cigar markets, but the businessman is prepared to face the difficulties imposed by the economic crisis that some countries have been suffering.
However, he never thought about going back to Africa or Brazil. He left his past behind and started his life anew in 2018. His new country is called United Kingdom. He only feels Mozambican when he has a football match involving Brazil and Portugal or the United Kingdom.”
Ruy Silva Jr. didn't have a very ordinary childhood . The eldest son of a middle class couple, the family lived in the peaceful Vila do Mossuril, but his center of life was for a long time Monapo, 126 kilometers from the city of Nampula. One of his great merits, the struggle to rehabilitate and also to maintain the family business and having attracted specialists of recognized level to the direction and approach of Indico Capital Merchant Limited.
Mozambican Ruy Silva Jr., 66 years old, is a successful entrepreneur - Ruy Silva Jr. is also considered an influential man and, in addition to his focus on commodities and wines and cigars, he intends to actively participate in the structuring, restructuring and rehabilitation of small, medium and large companies. A constant figure in major negotiations,
He has nothing wrong with having ambition, with wanting to make money, with wanting to grow, with wanting to become the owner of the business. On the contrary, this is what moves societies and still moves Ruy Silva Jr. which inaugurates a new phase in his professional and corporate trajectory. And took advantage of the height of the global crisis to occupy strategic positions in some of the main financial and business centers.
The effort and dedication of Ruy Silva Jr. draw the attention of some competitors. In the international market, currently, his name is controversial. Some see him as a genius capable of seeing opportunities where no one else does. Others, like a gambler willing to take bigger risks than competitors. Ruy Silva Jr. has always emphatically denied this assessment. And when he goes into a business, he always asks himself how much he can lose before he thinks about how much he can gain. He is considered a 100% pragmatic negotiator in the direction of the group of companies, with a cartesian head and is considered a true monster in the market.
And impressively, he went from an entrepreneur in the beginning of activity to an important businessman and banker, in one of the biggest rises in the market. And because of that, his story is a reason for a lot of curiosity.
The names Alonso Menendez and José Manuel Garcia Gonzalez are synonymous with the best cigars, they are linked to one of the biggest labels : “Dona Flôr” .
The tobacco leaves are produced and harvested in Brazil and are carefully selected by the master blender and his team. These are dried with the greatest care and then undergo several fermentations, in order to obtain the best aromas. “Dona Flôr” is an invitation for the senses, offering a subtle tasting, rich in aromas and wonderfully complex with a beautiful evolution .
“Smoke is a great companion for the loneliness of those who have to make decisions in business management . When I feel tired, I stop for a while to rest. I take a quick dip, relax with a Martell Cordon Bleu cognac or sometimes instead of cognac I have a glass of a good red wine 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild, stretch out, smoke a cigar, rest and get back to my work . But don't ask me to describe the charms of reverie or contemplative ecstasy into which the smoke of a good cigar plunges us. Smoking cigars is like falling in love - first, you are attracted by their shape and you are attracted by their taste and then it turns into an eternal passion. If smoking is human, smoking cigars is absolutely divine, tobacco is the plant that turns thoughts into dreams. A good “Dona Flôr” cigar is an everyday pleasure, magical consoling smoke “. ( Ruy Silva Jr.)
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