Queiroz Galvão is a Brazilian private conglomerate company headquartered in Recife

Recife

Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

. Today it is an international company engaged in construction, oil & gas, foods, steel production, and public concessions. The company was founded in 1953 as a construction company and is owned by the Brazilian family Queiroz Galvão.

The main competitors of Queiroz Galvão Group are the Brazilian conglomerates Odebrecht

Odebrecht

Odebrecht S.A. is a Brazilian conglomerate in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador da Bahia by Norberto Odebrecht, and is now present in South America, Central America, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the...

, Votorantim Group

Votorantim Group

Votorantim Group is one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America, operating in various sectors such as finance, energy, siderurgy, steel, pulp and paper among others...

, Camargo Corrêa

Camargo Corrêa

Camargo Corrêa is one of the biggest Brazilian private conglomerates, composed of publicly traded and closed companies, and shared management, operating in Brazil and in more than 20 countries...

 and Andrade Gutierrez

Andrade Gutierrez

Andrade Gutierrez is a Brazilian private conglomerate headquartered in São Paulo. The organization was founded in 1948 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, by the Andrade and Gutierrez families and it is today one of the largest privately held groups in Latin America and amongst the top three largest...

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