:: WORDS FROM THE GENERAL SECRETARY ::

The Federación Iberoamericana de Franquicias - FIAF is a non-profit entity, which join franchise associations from ten countries. The countries that integrate the FIAF are: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The FIAF has as objective to keep an exchange of strategically and commercial information in the whole Iberian American.

Main Activities and Services:

• To arrange a site with basic information about every one of the country members;
• To divulge the calendar of the franchise fairs of each country;
• To promote two annual meetings, being one in the own seat, in Valencia – Spain, and another one in one of the country members elected;
• To promote and incentive the exchange of information about the markets;
• To update the activities of each association inside its countries and
• To disseminate the good practices between the entity’s members.

From now on, the management and the control of the information of the official site of the entity will be done, directly, from Brazil, from where we will find the technological development as a fast and objective manner.

For the next two years, we will mold the work way, intensifying the collaboration between the countries members and acting strongly in the help to the developing of the commercial relations between the countries, acting politically to assist the gathering of commercial agreements which bring benefits in the sector in each country.

By this exposing, we demonstrate that exist much work to be done in FIAF. Our goals are to reach the increasing of the number of franchises with the operation in international markets, counting on the strong collaboration of the countries members. I invite you all to work together as a serious and involved manner to reach ours proposes and to make of the franchise system a great success.

Welcome!

Cordially,

Ricardo Camargo
General Secretary