Four Importacao E Exportacao Ltda

What Four Importacao E Exportacao Ltda does

Four Importação e Exportação Ltda is a Brazilian foreign trade consulting and agency firm founded in 1994 in Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, by four partners (the source of the company name). It delivers an integrated portfolio of services covering the full import/export cycle: Agenciamento (agency/business prospecting), Assessoria (advisory on customs, freight, insurance, licensing, and special regimes such as Drawback and Ex-Tariff), Consultoria (export project structuring, multilingual catalogs, packaging development, export pricing), and Import/Export Logistics. Its commercial department is organized into meat, eggs, and other-product segments, with a separate operational department handling documentation, supporting both Brazilian exporters seeking international markets and foreign importers sourcing Brazilian products.

The company's underlying technology is essentially a service platform, not a software product: it has no APIs, SDKs, or proprietary digital product disclosed. Its core product portfolio spans agricultural exports including poultry (AVES), pork (SUÍNO), and dairy and egg products (LACTICÍNIOS, with both fresh and powdered formats), plus general imports such as industrial machinery, equipment, spare parts, and animal feed inputs. The company claims active operations in more than 40 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, with deep Mercosur roots dating to its founding year.

Four monetizes through professional services fees and transaction-based commissions on import-export operations, with quote-based pricing tailored per client. Its go-to-market is sales-led and event-driven, relying on international trade fair participation and business missions for lead generation, supported by a small direct commercial team. The firm is a privately held Sociedade Limitada with 11-50 employees and no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, institutional investors, or external funding.

Name

Four Importacao E Exportacao Ltda

Legal name

Four Importação e Exportação Ltda

Website

https://fourltd.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Four Importação e Exportação Ltda is a Brazilian foreign trade consultancy and agency founded in 1994 that brokers Brazilian agricultural exports (poultry, pork, dairy, eggs) and facilitates machinery imports. It serves Brazilian exporters and foreign importers across more than 40 countries via agency, advisory, consulting, and logistics services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Foreign Trade Services

NAICS

Poultry and Poultry Product Merchant Wholesalers (42444), Livestock Merchant Wholesalers (424520), Other Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers (42459)

SIC

Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Import / Export Produce Wholesale (Cross-Border Trading) (AFAIACAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Import/Export & Cross-Border Food Commodity Trading (AFAIAKAL), Export Promotion & Market Access Support (BPADAMAC), Export Customs Clearance (Export Declarations & AES/EEI) (TLACAFAB)

Keywords

• Foreign trade agency
• Export consulting services
• Import logistics services
• Customs brokerage
• Agricultural product exports

Headquarters

HQ city

Lajeado

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Foreign Trade Agency Services: Agency services in foreign trade including business prospecting, participation in trade fairs, business missions, sales of Brazilian products abroad, and purchase of foreign products for Brazilian importers.
2. Foreign Trade Advisory and Consulting: Advisory services covering import/export costs, customs clearance, licensing, freight and insurance contracting, currency exchange, and shipment tracking.
3. Import-Export Operations: Facilitates import and export of agricultural products including poultry, pork, eggs, dairy, and industrial machinery with logistics services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Four Importação e Exportação Ltda is a Brazilian foreign trade agency and consulting firm that provides end-to-end import and export services including business prospecting, market research, customs clearance, documentation, freight/insurance contracting, currency exchange, and shipment tracking. The company exports Brazilian agricultural products (poultry, pork, dairy, and eggs) to over 40 countries and imports industrial machinery, equipment, spare parts, and animal feed inputs into Brazil.

Product overview

Four Importação e Exportação Ltda is a foreign trade consulting and agency company founded in 1994, operating as a single integrated service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of import and export services including foreign trade agency (Agenciamento), advisory (Assessoria), consulting (Consultoria), and logistics services (Logística de Importação and Logística de Exportação). These services support an export product portfolio comprising poultry (AVES), pork (SUÍNO), dairy and egg products (LACTICÍNIOS), as well as general import products including industrial machinery, equipment, spare parts, and animal feed inputs. The company connects Brazilian producers with international markets across Mercosul countries, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Agenciamento em Comércio Exterior (Foreign Trade Agency) Foreign trade agency service that prospects businesses, participates in trade fairs, organizes business missions, handles sales of Brazilian products abroad, and facilitates purchases of foreign products for Brazilian importers. Includes market research and back-to-back operations.
• Assessoria em Comércio Exterior (Foreign Trade Advisory) Foreign trade advisory service covering import/export costs, customs clearance, import licensing, ex-tariff applications, special customs regimes including Drawback, documentation issuance (proforma invoices, packing lists, commercial invoices, DUEs, bills of lading, certificates of origin), exchange contracting, and shipment tracking.
• Consultoria em Comércio Exterior (Foreign Trade Consulting) Foreign trade consulting service for structuring export/import projects, developing multilingual catalogs, creating export packaging compliant with legislation, establishing export pricing, and identifying fiscal benefits in import/export operations.
• Logística de Importação (Import Logistics) Import logistics service providing modern, fast, and effective logistics solutions for bringing products from abroad to Brazil, emphasizing security, speed, and reliability in the import supply chain.
• Logística de Exportação (Export Logistics) Export logistics service operating in over 40 countries, ensuring quality work and guaranteeing that exported Brazilian products arrive at their international destination with full security.
• AVES (Poultry Products Export) Brazilian poultry export products including whole chicken (with and without giblets), chicken shawarma, chicken fillets, boneless skinless breast halves, bone-in skin-on thighs and drumsticks, and chicken portions with dorsal portion. Targeted at international importers of Brazilian poultry.
• SUÍNO (Pork Products Export) Brazilian pork export products including pork carcasses, bone-in and boneless pork legs, pork belly (bone-in and boneless), boneless pork shoulder and blade shoulder, boneless pork loin, and pork loin ribs. Targeted at international importers of Brazilian pork.
• LACTICÍNIOS (Dairy and Egg Products Export) Brazilian dairy and egg products including fresh white eggs, fresh brown eggs, powdered eggs, liquid eggs, vegan powdered eggs, powdered milk, and sugar. Targeted at international importers of Brazilian dairy and egg products.
• IMPORTAÇÃO EM GERAL (General Imports) General import service facilitating the acquisition of industrial machinery, equipment, spare parts, and animal feed inputs from foreign suppliers into Brazil, with full customs, licensing, and logistics support.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Bunge (Brazil): Global agribusiness and food company with significant Brazilian origination, processing, and export operations. Comparable as a major cross-border agricultural trader operating in the same Brazilian trade corridors and international destinations.
• Louis Dreyfus Company (Brazil): Global commodity trader with deep Brazilian operations in agricultural products, including grains, coffee, sugar, and proteins. Comparable as a multinational cross-border agricultural trader operating from/through Brazil to 40+ country markets.
• Minerva Foods: Leading South American beef exporter with growing presence in poultry and pork. Comparable as a protein-focused Brazilian exporter operating in many of the same international markets Four targets.
• Amaggi Exportação e Importação: Brazil's largest private commodity trader, exporting soybeans, corn, and other agricultural products globally with integrated logistics. Comparable as a large-scale Brazilian cross-border agricultural trading house — relevant benchmark for trade-flow scale and geographic reach, though focused on grains rather than proteins.
• Cargill (Brazil): Global agricultural commodity trader with major Brazilian origination and export operations. Comparable as a competitor/benchmark for cross-border ag-food trade flow intermediation out of Brazil.
• JBS S.A. One of the world's largest meat producers with significant Brazilian poultry, pork, and beef operations. Comparable as a direct comparator on the protein export side of Brazilian ag-trade and as a potential client of trade-agency services for international market entry.
• BRF S.A. Brazil's largest poultry processor and a top global exporter of poultry, pork, and other proteins. Comparable because it sits on the export side of the same ag-food value chain that Four services — both connect Brazilian protein production to international buyers across Europe, Middle East, and Asia.

Emerging players

• DHL Global Forwarding (Brazil): International freight forwarder with Brazilian offices offering customs brokerage, documentation, and logistics services. Comparable because it competes for the documentation, customs clearance, and freight contracting portions of Four's service portfolio.
• Kuehne+Nagel (Brazil): Global logistics provider with Brazilian presence specializing in customs brokerage and international freight. Comparable as an alternative one-stop foreign-trade service provider, particularly for medium and large exporters with in-house commercial teams.

Regional players

• Alcogroup (Brasil): Brazilian sugar, ethanol, and agricultural commodity trader with cross-border export operations. Comparable as a Brazilian-headquartered trade-house that intermediates agricultural exports to international markets using similar documentation and customs expertise.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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