Our History
For more than 40 years, BRASPRESS has been building a history of innovation and professionalism in order to provide parcel services of excellence.
Know more about the main milestones of this winning trajectory.
1977
Company founded on July 1, 1977. Young Urubatan Helou invites his friend Milton Domingues Petri to be his business partner.
1977
Established at Rua São Quirino, 50, Vila Guilherme (São Paulo), the company’s assets are a telephone, a van and an old f350.
1977
Opening of BRASPRESS's first branches in Curitiba and Belo Horizonte.
1978
BRASPRESS publishes its first advertisement piece in Transporte Moderno (Modern Transportation) Magazine.
1978
Expansion plans continue with the opening of the Rio de Janeiro branch.
1980
Opening of the first maintenance shop, which now has a car dedicated to maintenance services.
1982
Urubatan Helou makes his first study trip to the USA to participate in the 1st Congress of the World Road Transport Organization (IRU). Urubatan travels with other Brazilian businessmen.
1985
With the presence of Urubatan Helou BRASPRESS’ airline company, Aeropress, is inaugurated in the city of Manaus, in the state of Amazonas.
1993
On August 19, 1993, the company’s headquarters moves to a new address at Rua Sublimação, 33 (Vila Maria, São Paulo), where it is based until August 2000.
1996
BRASPRESS displays pictures of missing children in its fleet as part of one of its social responsibility campaigns.
1997
On October, BRASPRESS takes part, for the first time, in the country’s largest transportation fair, the FENATRAN.
1999
At FENATRAN, Brazil’s National Transportation Fair, BRASPRESS acquires 40 Mercedes Benz trucks and receives MBB director, André Luiz, Ubiraci and Paulo Lelis from the Tapajós Concessionary, the company's traditional suppliers.
2001
Urubatan Helou’s business determination is recognized with the Medal of Merit Adalberto Panzan.
2002
BRASPRESS completes 25 years of activities with Urubatan Helou as Director President and Milton Domingues Petri as Director Vice President.
2002
Expansion of activities to the Northeast of Brazil, with the opening of branches in Salvador, Maceió, Aracaju, Recife, João Pessoa, Natal, Fortaleza, São Luís and Teresina, with an investment of 3.5 million Reais.
2002
BRASPRESS sends 4.5 tons of food to the population of Teófilo Otoni, in Minas Gerais after floods punish the city.
2003
BRASPRESS completes its operational network with its cross-country operations.
2003
Urubatan Helou is honored for his Entrepreneurship at São Paulo’s city hall during the Solemn Session celebrating Lebanon’s 60th Anniversary of independence.
2003
BRASPRESS signs a partnership with the Mães da Sé (Mothers of Sé) NGO to display pictures of missing children on its trucks and direct mail.
2004
In September, Latin America’s largest Parcel Sorter is inaugurated in São Paulo with an investment of 6 million Dollars.
2004
Branches in Porto Alegre, Belém and Manaus are opened, as well as in the cities of Nova Friburgo (RJ), Uruguaiana (RS), Santo Ângelo (RS) and Colatina (ES).
2004
In a partnership with the Ministry of Health, BRASPRESS adopts a new social responsibility campaign by displaying placards on its trucks referring to organ donation.
2005
Urubatan Helou is elected National Leader in the Transportation Sector by the Gazeta Mercantil newspaper.
2005
In an auction BRASPRESS acquires its current headquarters building, located in Vila Guilherme, for 23 million Reais.
2006
Urubatan Helou receives the Order of Merit of Transport - JK Medal, from Brazil’s National Confederation of Transport (CNT), in Brasília.
2007
The Ribeirão Preto (SP) terminal is inaugurated based on the Plan of verticalization.
2007
The book “Valor Econômico do Cliente no Transporte – uma teoria de encomendas” (Customer’s Economic Value in Transportation – A parcel theory) by Giuseppe Lumare Junior, BRASPRESS’ Commercial Director is launched through Pearson Education Publishing Company.
2007
As president of SETCESP, Cargo Transporters Union of São Paulo, Urubatan Helou created a new vehicle called SETCESP URBANO with a new supply concept. The vehicle became known as “Urubavan” and was released on June 20.
2008
BRASPRESS carries 218 tons of donations for victims of the floods in the state of Santa Catarina.
2008
The City Hall of Uberlândia (MG) honors Urubatan Helou with the Order of Merit "Virgílio Galassi".
2008
The Environmental Sanitation Technology Company of the state of São Paulo and BRASPRESS carry out the Diesel Opacity Assessment Program on 232 trucks of the company's fleet.
2009
50 Brazilian businessmen participate in the 2nd largest logistics fair in the United States, held in Chicago (USA). BRASPRESS’ Urubatan Helou (Director President), Milton Domingues Petri (Vice President), Luiz Carlos Lopes (Operations Director), Tayguara Helou (Controller) and Juliana Petri (Engineer and Automation Manager) were present.
2009
BRASPRESS participates for the first time in COUROMODA - Footwear, Sporting Goods and Leather Goods Trade Show, in São Paulo.
2009
With an investment of 35 million Reais, the company inaugurates in the state of Rio de Janeiro, the largest cargo terminal in Latin America with a SORTER (Automated Parcel Sorting System), breaking its previous record - the terminal of São Paulo.
2010
Inauguration of the Curitiba Terminal, with 33 thousand square meters of total area and investment of 20 million Reais.
2010
BRASPRESS inaugurates the CAOB, Operational Support Center, in Barueri (SP) with 27 thousand square meters.
2010
Opening of new terminals in Campinas (SP) and Sorocaba (SP).
2011
The terminal of Resende (RJ) is inaugurated, alongside the Presidente Dutra Highway, which connects the country’s two largest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a total area of 7,200 square meters and an investment of 6 million Reais.
2011
With a 12 million Reais investment, the new terminal in Vitoria’s (ES) metropolitan area is inaugurated. Contagem’s (MG) hub is expanded the same year.
2011
The largest parcel transportation structure is inaugurated in Fortaleza, with an area of 15 thousand square meters and 104 simultaneous docks.
2014
The Director of Development and New Businesses, Tayguara Helou, coordinates the entourage of 17 entrepreneurs and technicians from São Paulo’s municipal government and the University of São Paulo in visits to companies, entities and public authorities of New York.
2014
A 43 million dollar contract is signed with Dutch company Vanderlande Industries to acquire a 5.3 kilometer SORTER (Automated Parcel Sorting System) for the company's new headquarters in Guarulhos (SP), once again beating its own record. The automation of Guarulhos is now the largest in Latin America.
2015
A new terminal is inaugurated in Florianopolis to serve 17 cities in the state of Santa Catarina.
2015
The new terminal in the city of Cascavel in the state of Parana is inaugurated with a total area of 7 thousand square meters and 22 simultaneous loading and unloading docks to serve 61 municipalities.
2015
BRASPRESS invests 3 million Reais in expanding its products and services portfolio. Among its projects is the INTER NORDESTE, which integrates the Northeastern states through three large hubs: Feira de Santana (BA), Recife (PE) and Fortaleza (CE).
2016
BRASPRESS inaugurates the largest logistics hub in Latin America. Nicknamed “Planeta Azul” (Blue Planet), with a total area of 230,000 square meters, it is located in Guarulhos, in the state of São Paulo, alongside the Presidente Dutra Highway - the busiest road corridor in Brazil - and close to André Franco Montoro International Airport.
2016
The company is appointed champion in the transportation sector in Época Negócios 360º Yearbook, by Editora Globo Publishing, ranking among the country’s 300 top companies.
2016
BRASPRESS carries out the first shipment to Argentina and starts to operate in Paraguay.