Supermarkets

When most people think of supermarkets in Portugal it tends to be one of the big three like Continente (Sonae), Pingo Doce (Jerónimo Martins), or Lidl (Schwarz Group). You would not, probably, [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Photos: Joaquim Morgado When most people think of the Portuguese company Sonae, they invariably think of the company as European shopping centre developers and managers, or [...]

Portugal’s supermarket giant Jerónimo Martins (JM) is to expand to Slovakia. It will be the third country in Europe after Portugal and Poland – where the national operator has a strong [...]

Jerónimo Martins, the owner of the Pingo Doce supermarkets in Portugal says it will contest a tax bill of €32 million that the State says is outstanding and harks back to as far as 2012. The [...]

The real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield has announced that it has won the control of a portfolio of four supermarkets in Portugal. It brings the total area of commercial real estate [...]

The shares of Portuguese food distribution group Jerónimo Martins, which holds supermarkets such as Pingo Doce in Portugal and Biedronka in Poland, have been changing hands for record amounts [...]

A law introduced by the Portuguese Government to eliminate VAT on a typical shopping basket of essential goods comes into force tomorrow. (Tuesday, April 18) The law, confirmed in the Portuguese [...]

The international food distribution group DIA, which owns Minipreço in Portugal, managed to slash its losses by a half in 2022. Portugal represents only 8% of the group’s net food retail sales [...]

The CEO of Sonae, a Portuguese multi-sector multi-national company which operates one of the country’s largest supermarket groups Continente, has hit back as a tide of public resentment grows [...]

Portuguese food distribution company Jérónimo Martins that owns the Pingo Doce supermarket chain has enjoyed an increase in sales of 21.5% to €4.5Bn in 2021 – a like for like growth of [...]