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Portugal makes businesses grow
January 2014
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Portugal is graced with unique competitive advantages,
Portugal delivers high-quality products and services within
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such as its strategic location, global language, great
a wide range of sectors.
to invest or do business with Portuguese companies.
logistic infrastructures and talented people.
We are experts in moving people, delivering automotive
and aeronautical components for leading global brands.
Our Mission
Above all, Portugal is a resilient country that has developed
We shape the future with sophisticated technologies
To increase Portugal’s competitiveness and reputation by
and modernized over time, simultaneously still creating the
that are critical for the performance of world-class
boosting structural investment and making companies
best conditions for companies that wish to take advantage
companies and projects.
international in scope with special emphasis on small and
of those assets.
We change people’s lives by investigating and
medium-sized companies.
developing groundbreaking medicinal products and medical
Portugal is experiencing extensive transformations towards
devices.
Our Vision
a brighter future and to create a friendlier economic
We bring to life complex engineering projects with
To be a benchmark agency that breeds a competitive
environment.
state-of-the-art building materials.
business environment and contributes to the international
We connect people and businesses with our qualified,
expansion of Portuguese companies.
Companies that have trusted us with their investments
multilingual workforce, cost-competitive and modern
keep investing more and are satisfied with the results.
telecommunications network creating the best conditions
Our Promise
for shared services centres.
To do whatever we can to help your business succeed.
Portugal makes businesses grow.
We cherish sustainability and work towards a brighter
future by developing eco-friendly ways of generating
wind, wave and solar energy.
We are ahead of our time in so many ways, but we are
also proud of our traditional products such as Port and
table wines, fashion and footwear and cork.
In Portugal, tradition meets Innovation.
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Incubator for new products and services
With a population of just over 10 million people, the
Key Drivers
country is known for easily adopting new Technologies
Highly sophisticated market and high levels of investment in
Portugal is a great incubator for testing and developing
and for having a highly qualified and competitive
R&D .
new products and services within the ICT and Electronics
workforce.
sector.
Highly entrepreneurial and creative sector.
This “laboratory” is supported by multiple internationally
The country shows high levels of sophistication in this
renowned educational institutions which have nurtured
Diversity, complementarities and a wide scope of
field, with a good network, considerable levels of
many successful business entrepreneurs.
competencies.
Some of the most internationally renowned Portuguese
Portugal makes businesses grow.
investment in R&D, as well as high levels of accessibility
and connectivity.
companies, are from this sector.
With a population of just over 10 million people, the
country is known for easily adopting new Technologies
The ICT sector covers a wide range of industrial activities
and for having a highly qualified and competitive
and services such as IT equipment, IT services, software,
workforce.
consumer electronics, telecommunications equipment and
services.
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our players
Active Space Technologies
Novabase
Alert
Olisipo
Altitude
PT Telecom - PT Inovação
Aptoide
Simplex Program
Covii
Siscog
Critical Software
Take the Wind
Edigma
Tekever
E-xample
Uavision
Igov2u
Via Verde
It People
Vision-box
J. P. Sá Couto
Wedo Technologies
Master Guardian
Wit-Software
Ndrive
Ydreams
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Management
Bruno Carvalho
Administrator
Headquarters
Rua Coronel Júlio Veiga Simão,
3025-307 Coimbra
T. 351 304 505 505
[email protected]
www.activespacetech.com
Active Space Technologies offers high added-value services and products
A continuous and sustained investment in innovation and R&D is a critical
across the whole supply chain through synergies and integrated
part of our long-term vision, ensuring our permanent aptitude to
competences of an ever-growing network of partnerships.
exceed our customers and partners’ expectations. Following this vision,
we have been working for the European Space Agency, the European
Active Space Technologies has experience in the fields of
South Observatory, Agusta Westland, EADS, ESA, Thales Alenia Space,
electro-mechanic systems: thermo-mechanical engineering (thermal and
Galileo Avionica, among others, promoting a professional relationship
structural analysis, fluid dynamics, design, high precision manufacturing
with the customer by working in close cooperation.
and testing) and electronics engineering (embedded systems, digital
control).
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Jorge Guimarães
CEO
ALERT® is the most international EHR,
deployed in nationwide, statewide, region-wide
and enterprise-wide projects, in both public
Headquarters
Edifício Lake Towers
Rua Daciano Baptista Marques,
nº 245
T. 351 228 328 980
and private sectors, in 13 countries. Web and
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market.
www.alert-online.com
ALERT® includes a complete EHR, HIE, PHR,
cloud enabled, ALERT® solutions are
configuration variants of a single product, with
only one code development line characterized
by its capacity to be locally configured in each
Planning System and PDMS solution. ALERT®
has different country/market based
certifications and it follows International clinical
standards and interoperability directives.
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Alfredo Redondo
Altitude Software is a global leader in customer
center solutions.
CEO
Headquarters
Alameda Fernão Lopes, 16
1495-136 Algés
T. 351 214 129 800
[email protected]
The company delivers a complete suite of
modular solutions that enable companies to
automatically respond to changing business
needs, showing how important key role can
have a fully integrated contact center on the
overall enterprise information value chain.
www.altitude.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Paulo Trezentos
Aptoide is an Android marketplace for applications with multiple stores
This unique approach to the apps marketplace ecosystem allows rapid
managed by the partners and the clients.
grouwth founded on users collaborative work.
CEO
T. 351 966 171 047
[email protected]
Aptoide offers, since 2010, after have been launched in the Bazaar
Android Site, the possibility for partners to create and manage their own
Headquarters
Rua Soeiro Pereia Gomes,
Lt1, 3D
1649-031 Lisboa
store, choosing the content and the format that suits their targets.
www.aptoide.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Acácio Coelho
Administrator
Headquarters
Rua Marquês Sá da Bandeira,
384, 2º trás
4400 217 Vila Nova de Gaia
T. 351 227 825 719
[email protected]
CoVII is a computer vision software company
that privileges the human-machine
interaction.
COVII develops software, libraries and 3D
sensors applications. Its interactive
systems can be used in different surfaces –
walls, floors, screens or storefronts – with
innovative characteristics as the gesture
recognition or the immersion in a virtual world.
www.covii.org
The company operates in the ITC sector, more
specifically in the computer vision area.
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Marco Costa
CEO
Headquarters
Parque Industrial de Taveiro,
Lote 49
3045-504 Coimbra
T. 351 239 989 100
Critical Software is an international company which specialises in the
Founded in Portugal in 1998, Critical Software currently has offices in
delivery of reliable solutions, services and technologies for business critical
Coimbra, Lisbon and Oporto, and subsidiaries in the UK (with offices in
information systems, providing software tools that protect individuals,
Southampton and Yeovil), the USA (Chicago), Brazil (São Paulo), Mozambique
monitor equipment safety and guarantee business critical processes are
(Maputo) Angola (Luanda) and Germany (Frankfurt).
carried out in a secure and efficient way. Critical Software’s solutions help
companies control their costs and improve performance by providing the
The company operates a quality management system certified to CMMI®
real-time feedback needed to quickly identify and resolve issues that
Level5, ISO 9001:2008 Tick-IT, EN 9100, AQAP 2110 and 2210 (NATO)
inhibit process, product and services improvements.
and also implements the standards ISO 12207 and ISO 15504 (SPICE).
[email protected]
www.criticalsoftware.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Miguel Oliveira
CEO
EDIGMA is a technology company specialized in the development of
With projects in over 80 countries in the areas of tourism, culture, retail,
hardware, software and interactive systems based on multitouch
public sector, events and showrooms, EDIGMA is among the 200 most
and gesture recognition.
innovative companies in the world.
Headquarters
Parque Industrial de Adaúfe
Rua Soldado Manuel Pinheiro
Guimarães, 68
4710-167 Braga
T. 351 253 265 506
[email protected]
www.edigma.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
José Manuel Graça Bau
chairman
Headquarters
Av. António dos Santos,
34 – 4º Esq.
2000-074 Santarém
T. 351 218 088 557
[email protected]
www.e-xample.com
E-xample is a consortium offering innovative solutions to the school of
E–xample develops integrated education ecosystems combining the
the future, starting with the digital classroom with student and teacher
know-how, technologies and products of 26 Portuguese education
laptops, interactive whiteboards, local networks, servers, teaching
technologies companies. E-xample companies are present in over 50
platforms and digital content, to complete school management and
countries, working together with governments and local partners to help
control systems.
develop, implement and manage education ecosystems suited to each
countries needs.
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Anabela Pedroso
ceo
[email protected]
Headquarters
Bom Sucesso Trade Center,
Praça Bom Sucesso
61 – Piso 11
4150-146 Porto
T. 351 210 422 500
www.igov2u.com
IGov2u is a group of companies in electronic government products and
The IGov2u enterprise cluster provides tools to make public services more
services that work for the public sector in the coordination and manage-
efficient and brings improved quality of life for citizens and
ment of transformation processes, leveraged on information technology.
competitiveness for companies.
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Eduardo Vieitas
CEO
T. 351 218 230 579
[email protected]
Headquarters
Rua Central Park, nº 6 – 3º C
2795-242 Linda-a Velha
T. 351 218 230 579
[email protected]
www.itpeople.pt
IT people Consulting is a technology company specialized in the areas of
IT People also created the Movie Shirt technology to provide a personal
application, development, systems administration, databases and integra-
experience of contact with augmented reality.
tion of technologies. Created the first application in the world that helps
color blind people to identify the colors and a platform that offer services
through the augmented reality technology.
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Jorge Sá Couto
J. P. Sá Couto is a company dedicated to the design, development and
J. P. Sá Couto is one of the largest original equipment manufacturers
distribution of technological solutions and leader of a pioneering
worldwide to deploy Intel Classmate based educational netbooks.
Chairman
reference initiative for IT-based education. The company created Magalhães,
Headquarters
Rua da Guarda, 675
4455-466 Perafita
T. 351 229 993 999
a laptop especially developed for the use in all Portuguese public schools.
[email protected]
www.mymagalhaes.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
António Fonseca
CEO
[email protected]
Almost 28 years ago, MasterGuardian
introduced in the international market the first
worldwide microprocessor-based car alarm
which has changed the concept of vehicle
Headquarters
Rua Heróis de Mucaba, 32
4470-056 Maia
T. 351 229 023 868
protection for ever. After that, the first
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strongest help to became Portugal the world
fingerprint alarm system and the innovative
MGC WEB alarm incorporating a web server,
used by over a million users, were the
leader in biometric identification solutions.
www.masterguardian.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
João Neto
ADMINISTRATOR
Headquarters
Centro Empresarial da Lionesa
4250-151 Porto
T. 351 229 059 300
[email protected]
NDrive is a worldwide provider of navigation services to mobile platforms.
NDrive`s navigation software is running on Android, iOS and WinCE
platforms. The company created the world`s first GPS navigation system
with aerial photographs.
Two very successful projects of NDrive with French Yellow Pages and with
Portuguese Telecom, Mappy GPSFree and TMN Drive, are remarkable
solutions, which combined the common features of navigation software
with premium content.
www.ndrive.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Luís Paulo Salvado
PRESIDENT
Novabase is the Portuguese leader in IT services.
It boasts more than 2,000 talented and
dedicated employees of 17 different nationalities.
Headquarters
Av. D. João II, Lote 1.03.2.3
Parque das Nações
1998-031 Lisboa
T. 351 213 836 300
Novabase’s vision is to make life simpler and
[email protected]
Telecoms & Media, Financial Services, Government,
happier for people and businesses, through
technology. In the past 3 years, it has invested
more than €25 million in research & development
for specialized products and services in the
Healthcare & Transportation, Energy & Utilities
www.novabase.pt
and Manufacturing & Services sectors. Its
current business lines are Business Solutions,
Infrastructures & Managed Services and
Venture Capital.
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Management
Olisipo is a Portuguese company specialized in the outsourcing of
José Serra
information technology and communications specialists. As well as the
chairman
outsourcing of specialists, its wide range of nearshore services includes,
Headquarters
Olisipo
Formação e Consultoria em T
ecnologias de Informação S.A.
Av. 5 de Outubro, 293, 4º
1600-035 Lisboa
T. 351 217 983 103
managed services, software testing, persistent penetration security
testing and M2M solutions.
Olisipo has also an ambitious I&D program that has given rise to various
disruptive services, among which stand out the True-Kare
(www.true-kare.com), Keep-It-Secure24
(www.keepitsecure24.com) and EyeSee (www.eyesee.pt). Olisipo is the
[email protected]
www.olisipo.pt
only Portuguese company on the IT sector to be distinguished for two
consecutive years in the top of the “500 Growth Companies in Europe”,
ranked 63 in the ranking of 500 European companies that generated
sustainable growth and contributed to most job creation on the 29
European countries. The company received the “Best Human Resources
Provider 2012” award, promoted by the Portuguese Association of
Human Resources Managers and Specialists.
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Zeinal Bava
CEO
Headquarters
Rua Engº Jose Ferreira Pinto Basto
3810-106 Aveiro
T. 351 234 403 200
Portugal Telecom is a global telecommunications operator with 100
innovative solutions and successfully dealing with the challenges from
million clients worldwide. In Portugal, where it holds a leading position,
both enterprises and citizens.
has a diversified business portfolio in which quality and innovation are
decisive aspects, alongside the most advanced international companies in
It has one of the largest, most efficient, and most ecological data centres
this sector. The company’s activity covers every segment of the
in the world in Covilhã, that allows Portugal Telecom to expand its global
telecommunications sector: fixed, mobile, multimedia, data and corporate positioning in the cloud and data centre services market, leveraging the
solutions. These telecommunications and multimedia services are
group’s international footprint in four continents and its ecosystem of
[email protected]
available in Portugal, Brazil and Africa.
leading edge partners to also capture business in other geographies.
www.ptinovacao.pt
The company’s growth has been consolidating through the development
Portugal Telecom is listed on the Euronext and New York Stock Exchange,
of new business in areas of rapid growth, for example mobile voice, data
through a full listing of its ADR program, and is present in the reference
and cloud services, multimedia and broadband internet access. With this,
Portuguese index and in the benchmark sustainability indexes, DJ
Portugal Telecom has contributed to the development of the Information
Sustainability and FTSE4GOOD.
Society which is a priority for the company in terms of developing
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Simplex Program is a non stop process since 2006. Is the central policy
programme in Portugal to boost the public services reform. Its core
objective is to facilitate the relationship between citizens and enterprises
with public administration services. In the last years, the Simplex
programme concluded about 800 simplification measures of
administrative and legislative simplification or e-Government measures.
Main technological products of Simplex
Citizen Card - It`s the portuguese electronic identity card that provides
visual identity authentication with increased security and electronic
identity authentication using biometrics and electronic signatures.
Portuguese electronic passport (PEP) - The PEP represents the
beginning of a new generation of electronic documents and adheres to
the most rigorous security patterns. It preserves the features of the
current passport in the identification of its holder, but integrates
innovative devices ranging from facial recognition to the incorporation of
a contactless chip.
Portugal makes businesses grow
Online startup a company - The initiative “Empresa na Hora” became
possible the incorporation of several public services to startup a company
in a single electronic counter.
Taxes Portal - The Portuguese Taxes Portal is probably one of the most
visited public websites at the national level. In the portal, and as a result
of several years of improvements, the citizen or enterprise can develop
electronically all services related to taxes.
Social Security Portal - Allows the consultation of plenty of information
about the diversity of issues covered by social security services and is
equipped with several transactional services.
Zero Licensing Programme - The Portuguese “Zero Licensing”
Programme is one of the most representative initiatives of the
eGovernment agenda. Its main objective is to considerably simplify the
licensing procedures necessary to carry out several economic activities by
reducing red tape through an electronic point of single contact.
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Management
João Pavão Martins
chairman
SISCOG develops software for resource planning and management in
Systems developed by SISCOG offer different levels of decision support
transportation companies, namely for staff, timetables (track&time) and
and are in daily use in companies such as the London Underground and
equipment.
the national railways of Denmark, Finland, Norway and The Netherlands.
Headquarters
Campo Grande, 378 – 3º
1700-097 Lisboa
T. 351 217 529 100
[email protected]
www.siscog.pt
Portugal makes businesses grow
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Management
Pedro Pinto
CEO
Headquarters
Instituto Pedro Nunes
Rua Pedro Nunes
3030-199 Coimbra
T. 351 239 700 322
[email protected]
www.takethewind.com
Take the Wind provides scientific technology enabled solutions and
The high-tech solutions health platforms of Take The Wind actively help
services to drive programs for well-being, active healthcare or problem
the prevention of disease, particularly cardiovascular conditions and
prevention.
diabetes or to support and monitor the pregnancy.
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Management
Pedro Sinogas
CHAIRMAN
Tekever Group develops innovative technologies for the aerospace,
The focus of Tekever is improve the way organizations work and people
defense and security markets. The Group`s activities are organized in the
live providing products that combine mobile technologies, wireless
information technology and aerospace, defense and security divisions.
communications, location awareness, distributed computing and artificial
Headquarters
Rua das Musas, 3.30
1990-113 Lisboa
T. 351 213 304 300
[email protected]
www.tekever.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
intelligence.
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Management
João Noéme
CEO
[email protected]
Headquarters
Parque Empresarial de Torres
Vedras
Lote nº A1, Armazém 1
2560-383 Torres Vedras
T. 351 261 311 552
UAVision creates innovative solutions to
aeronautics, earthscience and industrial sectors.
The focus of aeronautics division is the
development of small unmanned aerial
vehicles and UAV/UAS systems for civilian
usage.
In earthscience, UAVision is specialized in
monitoring system (soil moisture water content
probes, weather station, water quality probes)
[email protected]
www.uavision.com
and automation (electro-valves control)
integrated in a web-based software to monitor
and control the field in real time. The industrial
sector is focused in the development of
engineering and integration projects according
to customer needs, in the fields of electronics,
aeronautics and mechanics. UAVision has the
capability to develop from scratch to the final
prototype, and to include the production and/
or production processes.
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Management
António Nunes de Sousa
chairman
Via Verde is a pioneering system created by Brisa, which enables tolls to
The Via Verde system was the first to be universally applied to all the tolls
be paid without stopping, vehicles to be refuelled and car parks to be
in a country and is already used in Brazil and United States.
used without having to waste time paying.
Headquarters
Quinta da Torre da Aguilha
2785-599 S. Domingos de Rana
T. 351 707 500 900
[email protected]
www.viaverde.pt
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Management
Bento Correia
CEO
[email protected]
Founded in 2001, Vision-Box® is the leading provider of and electronic
identity solutions and automated border control systems that use ICAO
compliant standards.
Headquarters
Rua Casal do Canas, 2
Zona Industrial de Alfragide
2790-204 Alfragide
T. 351 211 543 900
Covering the entire ID management life cycle, Vision-Box delivers for
[email protected]
The border control portfolio aimed at airports, airlines and Immigration
www.vision-box.com
governments and issuing authorities solutions ranging from live
biometric enrolment stations, document verification kiosks, digital
document dispensers and personalization systems.
authorities, includes solutions addressing different business scenarios,
namely security check-points, self-boarding and automated border
control smart biometric eGates.
From the enrolment process, through the life cycle process of a biometric
document and finally to the verification and identification process, all
products are linked together through a powerful IT-platform, vb i-shield®.
Vision-Box’s vb i-shield®, which enables the implementation of an
advanced border management system, also integrates with advanced
digital video management solutions, intelligent biometric and biographic
search engines and danger management functionalities.
Vision-Box® operates automated borders in more than 30 international
airports and over 3.000 electronic identity systems across the globe.
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Management
Sérgio Silvestre
CEO
[email protected]
WeDo Technologies is a worldwide leader in revenue and business
assurance, providing software and expert consultancy, to intelligently
analyze large quantities of data from across an organization helping
to negate or minimize operational or business inefficiencies and
allowing businesses to achieve significant return on investment via
Headquarters
Edifício Picoas Plaza
Rua do Viriato, 13 E
Núcleo 6 – 4º andar
1050-233 Lisboa
T. 351 210 111 400
revenue protection and cost savings.
WeDo Technologies works with some of the world`s leading blue chip
companies from retail, energy and finance industries.
www.wedotechnologies.com
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Management
Luís Silva
WIT is a software development company specialized in rich and unified
WIT was established in 2001, and has customers in over 15 countries,
communications for Mobile Operators and Mobile Internet companies.
including major operators such as Vodafone, Telefónica, Orange,
CEO
Headquarters
Centro de Empresas de Taveiro
Estrada de Condeixa
3045 – 508 Taveiro
T. 351 239 801 030
[email protected]
www.wit-software.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
Deutsche Telekom and TeliaSonera.
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Management
António Câmara
chairman
[email protected]
Ydreams is an interactive technology company which combines art,
The main activity of Ydreams, over the past decade, is the development
design and technology to create immersive experiences, interactive
of full-scale interactive environments with a special focus on augmented
architecture and innovative solutions that are helping people to redefine
reality.
the way to interact with information and contents.
Headquarters
Madan Parque-Sul,
Quinta da Torre
Edifício Ydreams
2825-149 Caparica
T. 351 210 314 000
www.ydreams.com
Portugal makes businesses grow
Rua Júlio Dinis, nº 748, 8º Dtº
4050-012 Porto - PORTUGAL
T. 351 217 909 500 T. 351 226 055 300
[email protected]
www.portugalglobal.pt