Exporting & Importing in Porto & northern Portugal
The PortugalWorks team is led by Charlie Cutler, who is British but has lived in Portugal since 1998 and works for some different export businesses, including Carvalho Custom (a custom cycling & triathlon clothing business), CorkLink (a cork supplier) and PortoEvents (an events management company in Porto and the surrounding region). PortugalWorks is a partnership with Infeira Lda, a consultancy company, with a range of in house consultants and 25 years of experience working with Portuguese and international clients in a broad range of businesses, specializing in helping companies with investments in northern Portugal.
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Portugal textile sector to benefit from move away from China after the corona virus?
Writing now in peak corona virus, the Portuguese textile sector is looking rather bleak but perhaps there will be a silver lining to the crisis if northern European clothing brands shorten their supply chains to source from southern and eastern Europe because of...
read moreIs the education system keeping Portugal poor?
One of the key aims of the EU project is to help the poorer members of the EU converge with the richer ones and as a result the EU has been throwing money at convergence (via the structural funds) for over 20 years or more; in most cases this has simply failied to...
read moreWorkwear & uniform supplier
Recently we have been doing some work supplying personalised workwear and uniforms from our partner business which has small factory in northern Portugal. The advantage that we can offer over many workwear suppliers in northern Europe is that we make all of our pieces...
read moreDemand for office space in Porto continues to grow
Porto continues to attract companies from all round the globe as a location, particularly for tech development. Several previously industrial areas on the periphery of Porto have already been converted into office space and some new major projects will be finished...
read moreDecades of pitiful governance make Portugal a magnet for foreign investment
The simple reason that Portugal’s economic growth over the last 20 years has been anaemic is that the country has been badly run; the paradox is that the dysfunctionality of the economy twinned with an avalanche of EU funding has made Portugal an attractive...
read morePortugal GDP finally returns to 2008 levels
Portugal's economic history of economic growth over the last 20 years has been one of mediocrity regularly punctured by the truly awful. The global economic crisis that began in 2008 was pretty tough for most countries in the world, but the Portuguese economy only...
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