The company is heavilyinvesting in its Sorocaba plant and is considering an acquisition of a grainprocessing company or an oil refinery, Domingues said. BioVerde may list a 30%stake, Domingues added.SourceProprietary Intelligence. BR Home Centers BR Home Centers, a private Brazil-based constructionretail company, is planning to go public in 1H13. The company will float lessthan a 50% stake and is in the process of finalizing audited financial results,Director Marcelo Mesquita told this news service. Proceeds from the offeringwill be used to open new stores. BR Home Centers currently operates 18 storesand plans to open between five and 10 stores a year starting next year. Thecompany was established in 2010 after the merger of Casa Show, controlled bythe Sendas family, and TendTudo, controlled by the Moraes family. The Sendasfamily currently holds a 12.5% stake in BR Home Centers, the Moraes family a50% stake and private equity firm Leblon Equities the remaining 37.5%. BR HomeCenters had BRL 540m (USD 265m) in revenues in 2011 and it expects BRL 600m inrevenues in 2012, according to press reports.SourceProprietary Intelligence. CBE CBE Embrarad signed a nondisclosure agreement for aproject that could make revenues leap and pave the way for a possible IPO,said CEO Alvaro Andrade. The company is also weighing private equity bids andother opportunities that could help it grow in the long term. Andrade said theproject under consideration has a 40% success rate and would give CBE nationalreach and possibly boost sales 50% from BRL 30m (USD 15m) over the next two tothree years.SourceProprietary Intelligence. Cedae Companhia Estadual de Aguas e Esgotos do Estado do Riode Janeiro, better known as Cedae, has filed for its IPO with securitiesregulator CVM, according to local reports. Cedae will be listed on NovoMercado, the listing segment of the Brazilian stock exchange with the strictestcorporate governance standards. The offering will be primary and secondary.SourceProprietary Intelligence. CVC Brasil Operadora e Agencia de Viagens Brazils largest tour operator, plans to go public,according to a local report. The company hoped to come to market in the firstquarter, but the exact timing of the IPO will depend on market conditions.Though CVC postponed plans to list shares in February, the preparation for theshare sale never stopped, the local article quoted founder Guilherme Paulusas saying. Paulus sold 63.6% of CVC to private equity fund Carlyle Group forBRL 750m (USD 426m at average market exchange rates for 2010) in January 2010.SourceProprietary Intelligence. Drogaria Sao Paulo Drogaria Sao Paulo is rumored to be preparing a publicoffering The company purchased Drogao, another drugstorecompany, a year ago, surpassing Farmacias Pague Menos as the market leader inSao Paulo. Drogaria Sao Paulo operates more than 360 stores in the states ofSao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Bahia.SourceProprietary Intelligence. EBX Group EBX Group subsidiaries, including OGX Petroleo e GasParticipacoes (OGXP3: BZ), OSX Brasil (OSXB3: BZ) and MPX Energia (MPXE3: BZ;MPXEY: GDR I), are poised to exercise equity rights to capitalize their businessesin the coming months amidst lackluster performance and weak market sentiment.OGX expects to sell USD 1bn in shares to majority shareholder and billionaireinvestor Eike Batista to place bids in Brazils auction for