Interview with Manuel António da Mota, Founder of Mota-Engil
With a market positioning aligned with the best practices and business conduct based on ethical principles and backed up by a strategic and integrated vision on the future, Mota Engil strives to become the most international, innovative and globally competitive group.
This year, the group celebrates its 75th year in business but the ambition remains the same as in its origins: continue to head down new paths for its own development.
Diogo Lacerda Machado, Aviation enthusiast
TAP was born 75 years ago, thanks to the creative impulse of General Humberto Delgado, months before the end of World War II and some time after that extraordinary circumstance which was the demobilisation of...
Raúl Moreira, Philately Director of CTT
On November 6, 1520, King D. Manuel I signed in the city of Évora the royal letter appointing Luis Homem as the first postal officer in Portugal. Despite the existence of documents prior to...
THE DIGITAL ECONOMY DOES NOT FRIGHTEN THOSE LEADING PORTUGAL’S MAIL SERVICE WHO, WITHOUT EVER FORGETTING THEIR ‘CORE’ BUSINESS SECTOR, ARE ADOPTING INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND PROCEDURES AND MOVING INTO NEW MARKET NICHES. ON THE VERGE OF CELEBRATING ITS FIFTH CENTENARY,...
PORTUGAL IS IN FASHION. LISBON IS IN FASHION. THE CLASSICAL IS NOW BACK IN FASHION. AND IS THERE ANYTHING MORE CLASSICAL AND TASTY THAN A CAN OF HEALTHY FISH AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE AND ABLE TO TRANSFORM A SIMPLE...
ADEGA MAYOR OPENS UP THE SENSES AND PRESENTS TO THE MARKET THE TWO LATEST VINTAGES FROM TWO OF ITS BRAND ICONS, ADEGA MAYOR RESERVA DO COMENDADOR AND ADEGA MAYOR GRANDE RESERVA PAI CHÃO. FOR THE FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR, THEY...
GOOD OR BAD ADVERTISING, RENOVA’S CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE THE NEW RANGE OF PRODUCTS RENOVA MAGIC WAS LAUNCHED IN FRANCE AND TRAVELLED THE WORLD. WHO HASN’T HEARD YET OF THE TOILET PAPER THAT OPERATES “MAGIC IN YOUR BODY”?
A capable of offering...
IN JUST WHAT APPLICATIONS HAS CORK NEVER BEEN USED AND TO WHICH IT CAN ADD VALUE?
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHALLENGES FOR CORTICEIRA AMORIM. THE CORK POTENTIAL CONTINUES TO GAIN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND, IN A WORLD WHERE...
THE VISTA ALEGRE FOCUS ON DESIGN HAS TURNED THE COMPANY INTO ONE OF THE FEW LUXURY PORTUGUESE BRANDS WITH A WORLDWIDE PRESENCE. NEVERTHELESS, DESIGN, INNOVATION AND CLOSE LINKS WITH CULTURE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ITS CORNERSTONES THROUGH THE NEARLY TWO...
It all started 22 years ago on Madison Avenue. Three of the world’s most senior financial PR professionals met to discuss a ground-breaking alliance, that would change the shape of the communications industry.
Over two days in late April 2023, The Economist spent over eight hours in conversation with Dr Kissinger. Just weeks before his 100th birthday, the former secretary of state and national security adviser laid out his concerns about the risks of great power conflict and offered solutions for how to avoid it. This is a transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity.
A new geopolitical and economic order is being written through the emergence of China as an economic, military and diplomatic superpower and threatening the status of the United States. We are heading towards a multipolar world in which the search for strategic autonomy is changing the dynamics of international trade for the worse. Nothing will be more determinant to the world’s destiny over forthcoming years than the relationship between Beijing and Washington. Europe risks being a mere bystander.