David Zeiger (industrialist)

In 1967, Time magazine published a cover story with the photo of President Costa e Silva. The subject was the surge of progress in the economy of Brazil. It quoted examples of leaders in various fields of activity, and presented Zeiger as an example of an industrialist.

During the years of the "Economic Miracle" in the 1960s and 1970s, David Zeiger's business expanded quickly. His factory (Cia Pullsport of Malharia) grew to occupy two buildings of seven floors with 500 employees.

Zeiger believed in a Brazil based on the market economy of the United States—with a vast middle class, general access to education and medical services. During the Juscelino Kubitschek administration (1956 to 1961), he found a favorable climate for this view, which would help Brazil to move out of its agrarian economy to become an industrial giant. At that time Zeiger met congressman Antônio Sílvio Cunha Bueno, with whom he developed a long friendship, and through which he began to participate more actively in the political climate of the country. Zeiger promoted Cunha Bueno within the Jewish community. The friendship with the Cunha Bueno family resulted in two homages: David Zeiger Public School, and David Zeiger Street, both in São Paulo.

Zeiger's family immigrated from Ukraine (formerly Poland) to Brazil in the early 1920s. David with his siblings and mother, met with his father Shaja Zeiger, who had left Poland a year earlier. His father, Shaja Zeiger, was a tailor, and in a few years founded Goomtex, a factory for raincoats and overcoats. As a young man, David Zeiger worked with his father, and soon became the manager of the business. After his marriage, David Zeiger began to run Pullsport—a women's fashion factory—along with his wife Mila Zeiger.

David Zeiger (February 21, 1918 - May 10, 1981) was a Brazilian industrialist in the area of clothing and fashion.