Food production

The agro-foodstuffs arm of Portuguese grocery giant Jerónimo Martins led by Pedro Soares dos Santos has again headed out with a shopping list – this time snapping up the Luís Vicente Group. [...]

Patrick Fitzgerald, an internationally recognised innovator in the plant industry talks to John Paul Prior, Irish-Portugal Business Network Porto Chair and Director of Sales Strategy & Tech [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Image: Jesper Andersen There was something decidedly fishy going on in the small seaside town of Peniche which to most overseas visitors is associated with international [...]

The Super Bock Group, a beverages company owned by entrepreneur Rui Lopes Ferrera, is to invest €200 million over the next five years from a €300 million 10-year investment plan, one-third of [...]

Portugal is the fifth largest coffee producer in Europe according to the EU’s statistical body Eurostat. Last year Italy was the biggest coffee producer with 556,500 tonnes or 25% of total [...]

Portuguese packaged salads producer Vitacress, which turned over €40 million in 2022, of which 15% was for the export market, especially the UK and Spain, says it will expand to Odemira. However, [...]

The President of PortugalFoods, Amândio Santos has admitted that Portugal’s food industry, has no choice but to increase prices if it is to remain viable. But he says all players in the food [...]