Business in Portugal Blog

Clothing sourcing agents sometimes get a bad press - are they just parasites living off the hard work of factories who actually produce the clothing or do we have a genuine contribution to make in making the whole process of sourcing clothing from overseas a more...

We have done some work recently on making some truly stunning tiaras and other accessories for some premium brands. Whilst we would not share here the work we do for our clients, we produced some of our own examples to demonstrate the kind of tiaras and other...

Whilst the mass-market for clothing, footwear and accessories is clearly going strong with the unstoppable rise of fast fashion and single-wear outfits there is a parallel trend which is for durability, uniqueness and handmade quality. Here at PortugalWorks, we have...

The Portuguese textile sector was worth around €4.9 billion and leather €200 million in 2021 and both have been growing sales over the last decade or so. But these raw numbers do not tell the real story of the changes that have been going on in both sectors. As...

Around 80 kms south of Porto is the industrial city of Porto - it is one of the light engineering hubs of Portugal, but above all it is famous for making bicycles. In 2020 Portugal produced 2.6 million bicycles (half a million more than the second largest European...

We are launching a new site, HiddenPortugal , which is all about the less discovered corners of Portugal, to help tourists find out more about what Portugal has to offer outside of the big cities and tourist hotspots. We are looking for writers who have an intimate...

We are a British owned Portuguese based trading company, so writing 4 months after Brexit, we can share our insights into what it has been like trading between Portugal and the UK. The short version is that the first few weeks were a bit of a nightmare, when nobody...

Here we are in March 2021 and the last three months have been fairly chaotic for those trading between Britain and the EU. Stories abound of problems with border controls, with unfathomable bureaucratic requirements for seemingly mundane exports, delays and higher...

Writing now in peak corona virus, the Portuguese textile sector is looking rather bleak but perhaps there will be a silver lining to the crisis if northern European clothing brands shorten their supply chains to source from southern and eastern Europe because of...

One of the key aims of the EU project is to help the poorer members of the EU converge with the richer ones and as a result the EU has been throwing money at convergence (via the structural funds) for over 20 years or more; in most cases this has simply failied to...