Key Competitive Attractions
AICEP Portugal Global is a public business body, formed in 2007, which focuses on encouraging and facilitating foreign investment in Portugal. The organisation resulted from a merger of API and ICEP, former investment and economic promotion agencies.
Portugal offers a strategic, geographic location for reaching European markets, greatly enhanced by exceptional logistic and communication infrastructures, providing quick, easy connections to numerous major commerce hubs via road, rail, air, and sea. In addition, Portugal's telecommunications and broadband systems rank amongst the most advanced in the world.
Portugal also boasts the invaluable asset of exceptional human resources - a highly skilled and educated workforce readily available, with 100,000 graduates projected to join the labour pool over the next four years.
Portugal has proudly built itself a reputation as an innovative country with a friendly economic environment. Portugal has successfully adapted its economy from traditional manufacturing an industry sectors, to become a key player in innovative and technology sectors including pharmaceuticals, automotive components, electronics and ICT, thanks to its exceptional R&D facilities, and communications infrastructure, facilitating large scale land and sea exports.
Portugal is not simply a great country to invest in - it is also an exceptional place to live, with an enviable Mediterranean climate, wonderful quality of life, and the ideal balance of natural beauty and vibrant, cultural cities. Portugal's capital, Lisbon, offers history, stunning architecture, and vibrant culture in abundance.
Key industry sectors and business functions
- ICT
- Food and Drink Production (notably wine)
- Automotive
- Plastics
- Renewable/Green Industries
- Shared Services Centres
