Luxury student housing is a new experiment in communal living, and investors are cashing in on a growing trend. Collegiate Marquês de Pombal, the country’s first luxury student accommodation, [...]
Getting to know Lisbon through some of the capital’s experts is the idea behind the new premium XN Concierge service. Exclusivity is intrinsically linked to the most recent department of Xana [...]
Chitra Stern, a Singaporean-British-Swiss entrepreneur, tells us about how the Portuguese government is helping promote Lisbon as a great place for investment and innovation.
In the ’80s it was Bonsai trees, in the ’90s Bay trees. Today, ornamental citrus trees are all the rage and big business in cold Northern European climes. Particularly for Citrina — [...]
The cost of organising an event like the Eurovision Song Contest has received much media attention in Portugal. Essential Business spoke to the ‘crew’ behind Eurovision Lisboa 2018, whose slogan [...]
Think of Claus Porto and you are immediately transported back in time to the Belle Époque elegance of the late 19th century and the clean Art Deco lines of the Roaring Twenties and Thrifty [...]
French billionaire Claude Berda and his business partner José Cardoso Botelho created
Vanguard Properties to invest in Portugal. Essential Business caught up with them last
month to find out [...]
Not even the worst global financial crisis of the century could take down the biggest company in the field of dental medicine globally. The Malo Clinic is here to stay, with a presence in 20 [...]
The most important event on Portugal’s international tennis calendar - the Millennium Estoril Open – is back at the Estoril Tennis Club between April 28 and May 6