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...Ebitda tumbled to R$363.6mn from R$1bn in 2021 as margins fell by more than half to 8.3 per cent. All three metrics have fallen another step lower in the first nine months of this year....
...Spending on R&D reached nearly 8 per cent of revenue last year, up from just over 2 per cent a decade ago....
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