High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jose Alencar Gomes da Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: ; 17 October 1931 – 29 March 2011), also known as Jose Alencar, the Strong, was a Brazilian businessman and politician, and the Vice President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. In business since a young age, Alencar was a self-made multimillionaire, as the chief executive of Coteminas, after working as travelling salesman and in failed food wholesale start-ups. He turned his family's small clothes factory and retail store into a leading textile manufacturer in his country, producing goods for traditional brands in its portfolio, such as Artex, Santista and Calfat, and vying for dominance of the global market after a merger with South Carolina-based Springs Industries. In the 1990s, Alencar groomed his son to succeed him at the company, and opted to enter politics in his home state, Minas Gerais. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде...