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The Portuguese private health care group CUF has posted results of €39.8 million for 2023 – an increase of 9.5% on the €33.7 million registered in 2022. The positive performance of [...]

Portuguese high street bank Millennium bcp has signed a contract with the renewables Greenvolt group to be directly supplied with electrical energy derived from photovoltaic self-consumption [...]

The contact centre sector in Portugal is booming, posting a business turnover of €2.3Bn in 2022 according to the latest figures available, employing 76,000 according to a report from Deloitte for [...]

Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (BBVA), which has had a branch presence in Portugal for 26 years, closed its accounts for the first quarter of 2024 with profits of €2.2Bn, a like-for-like increase [...]

The Alentejo Regional Wine Commission has posted a 27% increase in wine tourism in 2023 like-for-like on 2022. Comissão Vitivinícola Regional Alentejana (CVRA) says that this uptick is down to an [...]

The luxury business has undergone a revolution in recent years. Gone are the days when quality brands were so exclusive they didn’t need to listen to their consumers. Now brands have to cater to [...]

Portugal’s Attorney General, Lucília Gago, is coming under increasing pressure from the Portuguese parliament and key political figures to give an account of herself over her handling of [...]

Around 600 companies from Portugal and Portuguese speaking countries around the world (PALOPS) headed for Forum Macau this week in search of business opportunities in China and South East Asia. [...]

Portugal’s The Navigator Company is to increase the price of tissue paper by 10% from next month. The group has justified the price hike in all markets in which it operates on the “sharp increase [...]

The second largest Swiss bank specialising in managing private fortunes, Julius Baer Group AG, is to open a bank in Portugal in 2025. It comes after a Portuguese team of ex-Credit Suisse [...]