Defunct companies of Brazil

Brazilian off-road vehicles manufacturer

Brazilian paper company

defunct Brazilian broadcast television network

The Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima (RFFSA, pronounced as Refesa) () was the State-owned national railway company of Brazil created from Brazilian Federal Law #3.115 on March 16, 1957, after several railroads were nationalized by the Brazilian government. However, the railroad did not take full effect until September 30, 1957. The RFFSA linked 42 railways together (both on documents and actual railroads), creating a regional system composed of 22 railroads. The goal of the RFFSA was to promote and advance the railroad sector of Brazil, creating a north-south-east-west rail network

Telesp - Telecomunicações de São Paulo S.A. (in English: Telesp - São Paulo Telecommunications) was the telephony operator company of the Telecomunicações Brasileiras S.A. (Telebrás) system in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, successor to the CTB, later incorporating the Companhia de Telecomunicações do Estado de São Paulo (COTESP) and other smaller companies. It remained in operation from May 1973 until the privatization process in July 1998, when the Spanish company Telefónica acquired it, forming Telefônica Brasil, which in 2012 adopted the Vivo brand for its fixed-line operations.

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Brazilian freight and passenger railway company

thumb|Promotional poster for the Kolynos toothpaste from the 1940s Kolynos is a line of oral care products created by Newell Sill Jenkins in 1908 and acquired by Colgate-Palmolive in 1995. The name is a combination of two Greek words, "κωλύω" & "νόσος", meaning "I am stopping" and "disease" respectively.

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Brazilian company