Portugal’s largest car plant Autoeuropa will restart production on October 2 according to a note sent to employees. The decision was taken after the company managed to find alternatives to its [...]

Portugal’s footwear industry had a tough year to July suffering a fall in orders for the export market of 9% while losing 1% in value. This is according to the news agency Lusa that sounded out [...]

The Portuguese food and sports clothing group Prozis, owned by entrepreneur Miguel Milhão, aims to have a €10 million turnover for its 12th factory that will produce socks. Miguel Milhão is the [...]

Portugal’s largest car plant is to begin a nine week stoppage from September 11 to November 12 because of a shortage of car parts in Slovenia. It will lay manufacturing staff off for the period [...]

One of Portugal’s most successful entrepreneurs, Miguel Milhão, is to open his company’s 11th product manufacturing unit in the north of the country. Prozis, which makes health food and food [...]

Portuguese exports of car components rose by 26.9% in April to €899 million like-for-like on last year with the market growing ten consecutive months. The data was released in a communiqué from [...]

Workers at the VW Autoeuropa plant will know this weekend if the plant based at Palmela has secured the production of a new hybrid Volkswagen. According to an interview with Público, the Managing [...]

Exports from Portugal’s home improvements, furnishings, and décor cluster Fileira Casa Portuguesa shot up by 15% in the first quarter of 2023 with expectations that exports will exceed €2.2Bn by [...]

The British fund Arrow has purchased the furniture manufacturer Viriato in Gandra and has saved 113 jobs in the process. The fund has placed a new CEO, Jorge Neto Morgado, to manage the Viriato [...]

Portugal’s metallurgy and metalworking sector got off to a good start this year with exports in January up 13.7% to €1.8Bn. According to AIMMAP (Metal Portugal) which represents the sector, the [...]