Business in Portugal Blog

We are a British owned Portuguese based trading company, so writing 4 months after Brexit, we can share our insights into what it has been like trading between Portugal and the UK. The short version is that the first few weeks were a bit of a nightmare, when nobody...

Here we are in March 2021 and the last three months have been fairly chaotic for those trading between Britain and the EU. Stories abound of problems with border controls, with unfathomable bureaucratic requirements for seemingly mundane exports, delays and higher...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One benefit of being one of the poorer countries in Europe is that the EU keeps on throwing more money at Portugal, most of which is directed at businesses of all sizes who can contrive a means of fitting into a category deemed worthy of subsidising. Generally...

Porto's success in attracting tourists in recent years is well documented, but surrounding areas have also seen dramatic growth in tourist numbers, most notably the Douro Valley. The Douro is the river that cuts through the middle of the city of Porto, but further...