conglomerate founded 1918 headquarters s o paulo brazil key people raul calfat chairman jo o miranda ceo products energy siderurgy steel finance pulp and paper cement agribusiness revenue us 11.2 billion 2013 1 net income us 101.5 million 2013 2 number of employees 98 600 website www.votorantim.com.br votorantim group is one of the largest industrial conglomerates in latin america operating in various sectors such as finance energy siderurgy steel pulp and paper among others . the group is represented by different holdings administering the brands of each sector they are atacocha mining banco votorantim finance companhia brasileira de aluminio aluminium citrosuco agribusiness fibria pulp and paper milpo mining votorantim cimentos cement votorantim energia energy votorantim metais mining votorantim siderurgia siderurgy vnn private equity venture capital votorantim group headquarters s o paulo . votorantim is a family controlled company . it was founded in 1919 by jos erm rio de moraes an engineer from pernambuco . its model of corporate governance assures the erm rio morais family strategic controlling positions in the executive board the brazilian businessman ant nio erm rio de moraes was the representative of the family in company and it has non family professionals at the forefront of the business units . the company is proud to have been recognized by the imd business school and lombard odier darier hentsch bank as the world s best family company in 2005 . the votorantim group is the only closed capital brazilian company rated by the three main rating agencies in the world standard & poors fitch ratings and moody s. in february 2010 the votorantim group purchased through its subsidiary votorantim cimentos 21.2 % of portuguese cement company cimpor of which 17.3 % was purchased from french cement company lafarge and 3.9 % from portuguese cinveste . cimpor began to be played by the brazilian siderurgy company csn and the conglomerate camargo corr a that offered a hostile bid to hold 100 % of the shares but shareholds of cimpor of rejected the offer to sell 100 % of the company and thus the votorantim group was able to buy a stake in the portuguese company . but on february 10 from the camargo corr a impressed and bought 28.6 % of cimpor . in 2012 the group exchange their shares in cimpor with camargo corr a cimpor for some assets in asia africa and south america . references edit 1 votorantim 2010 revenues was r 29.5 us 17.6 billion 2 votorantim group net income jumps 1 % in 2010 for r 4.9 usd2 .9 billion in 2010 fiscal year external links edit votorantim cimentos pushes brazil ipo plans to 12.7 billion april 17 2013 bloomberg.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title votorantim group & oldid 736336403 categories companies based in s o paulo city conglomerate companies of brazilvotorantim groupprivately held companies of brazil navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisnederlands portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 19 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view