In 2007 the Brazilian economy could have reached an increase of more than 5 %. In 2008 most analysts predict a BIP-increase of almost 5 %. According to this, the prevailing mood of all our visotors of the faucet industry was positive on the occasion of the Feicon in Sao Paulo. The Brazilian peoples buying power was mainly raised by an upstreaming wage level and by clearly improved financing possibilities for a big part of the population.