Portugal Clothing Industry

Portugal Apparel Industry Directory: Apparel, Fashion & Textiles Industry B2B Directory. Browse the Fashion Industry Country Directory for Portugal, the Portugal Fashion Shows page, and the Apparel Search World of Fashion coverage. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe, being bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain. Its territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

Portugal Clothing Industry Overview

Portugal's textile and clothing industry, as the ten listings in this directory show it, is anchored in the north of the country. CENESTAP, the textile and apparel institution at Vila Nova de Famalicao, works with the participation of the Portuguese Government and the most important companies and associations of the textile and clothing industry. Fashion Team, an international textile agency, is based in Braga. MODATEX, the professional training centre for the textile, clothing, apparel and wool industry created in 2011, has its head office in Porto, delegations in Lisbon and Covilha, and branches in Vila das Aves and Barcelos. Product Masters runs product development, production and logistics from Porto, and Ygrego Textil makes knits at Paredes. Further listings sit in Valadares, Cascais and Viseu, so the directory runs from the northern manufacturing districts to the Lisbon coast and the centre of the country.

The industry's supporting institutions fill out the picture. Portugal Textil, founded in 2001, is a portal dedicated to fashion that transmits information as a way to generate knowledge for all the agents that gravitate around the Textile and Clothing Industry. Portugal Fashion, created in 1995, grew over 20 years into one of the greatest Iberian fashion events, distinguished by the discovery of new values, by true partnerships between production and creation, and by the growing notoriety of fashion on national and international catwalks. Between them, the listings cover training and technical support (MODATEX and CENESTAP), industry information (Portugal Textil), fashion promotion (Portugal Fashion), agency and production services (Fashion Team and Product Masters), and the manufacturers themselves.

The manufacturing base in these listings is knit-led, with woven capacity alongside it. Ygrego Textil specialises in knits — jersey, American fleece, piquet and ribbing — from basic T-shirts to highly developed styles, with quality control present in all production stages. Mafalda Rego manufactures and can provide good manufacturers for underwear and home textiles and materials, quoting and making prototypes for reference across T-shirts, ladies' shirts and tops, pants, men's shirts and dresses. Vestireme, in Viseu, buys finished garments and works in men's woven clothing: suits, cotton shirts, jackets, silk ties and trousers. Goncalo Bello, in Cascais, works the other way round from most of the page: a small Portuguese company acting as a buying agent for Portuguese, Swedish and Brazilian customers, producing sweaters, jackets and shirts in Bangladesh on a full container basis only.

Manufacturing & Sourcing in Portugal

A buyer sourcing from Portugal can enter through three routes, and all three are listed here. The first is the manufacturer direct. For knits, Ygrego Textil Lda at Zona Industrial Vilarinho de Cima, Paredes covers jersey, American fleece, piquet and ribbing, and is at a buyer's disposal for clarification or for the production of samples of any garment — the sample stage a knit programme starts with. For a broader garment range, Mafalda Rego at Rua Professor Amadeu Santos 1025, Valadares can quote and make prototypes, and lists T-shirts, ladies' shirts, pants, ladies' tops, men's shirts, dresses and men's T-shirts as its manufacturer items. For men's woven garments, Vestireme buys finished garments in Europe and also seeks CMT manufacturers of men's woven suits, trousers and jackets in Eastern Europe and in Asia, which makes it a route for woven programmes as well as a buyer in its own right.

The second route is the service provider that organises production for the buyer. Product Masters in Porto provides premium services in product development, production and logistic operations within a network of quality apparel manufacturers in Portugal, in both men's and womenswear — the route for a brand that wants development and logistics handled inside the manufacturer's network rather than factory by factory. Fashion Team in Braga works as an international textile agency with clients in many countries in the world. The third route is the offshore buying agent: Goncalo Bello-Importacao e Exportacao Lda in Cascais has produced in Bangladesh for the past 5 years for Portuguese, Swedish and Brazilian customers, with sweaters, jackets and shirts as the major products and all orders placed in Bangladesh on a full container basis only — a volume condition a buyer needs to know before enquiring.

Skills and information support both routes. MODATEX coordinates training for the textile, clothing, apparel and wool industry nationwide, responding to the qualification and improvement needs of people and organisations and providing technical support to all players in the industry, while CENESTAP in Vila Nova de Famalicao brings the government and the industry's most important companies and associations into one textile and apparel institution. Quantities, prices and current contact details should be confirmed directly with each company before an order is placed, using the addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses preserved in the listings below, because company details can change over time.

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Portugal Fashion Industry Companies

Listings are given with the descriptions, addresses and contact details supplied for each business.