Business in Portugal Blog

Portugal has been gaining a deserved reputation as an attractive location for multinationals to open up IT development offices, particularly in Porto and the north of the country, but also Lisbon. Mercedes-Benz has just announced that is will be building its global...

There is a fair amount of head-scratching in Portugal about why domestic businesses which produce a decent quality product at an attractive price do not export more. The general answer given is that they are missing the magic export sauce: a mixture of sly branding,...

The tourism sector has been one of the shining lights for the Portuguese economy in 2016, with an increase of around 10% in the number of tourists visiting the country and the hotel sector increasing turnover by more than 16%. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that...

Container port of Leixões, in Porto There is no doubt that the Portuguese economy has had a torrid time of it over the last decade or so – since the inception of Portugal as a democracy in 1974, there has been a general failure by government to control public...

The city of Porto and some of the surrounding areas of northern Portugal are fortunate enough to have very high quality Universities, in particular for engineering and other more practical areas. It means that for businesses that are located in or around Porto that...

Porto and the surrounding area of northern Portugal has been doing rather well recently in attracting inward investment from firms looking to set up an office or factory there. It is worthwhile to have a look at a few of the dry numbers which help to explain why Porto...

Brought up in England, with a Dutch mother but having lived in Portugal for 18 years, my natural inclination is pro European; furthermore I find nationalism in all its guises crude and often offensive and so it might come as a surprise to many that were I still living...