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| Announcements | | Fischer Connectors establishes new production site in Portugal
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| september 2021 |
| | | | The Swiss Group Fischer Connectors held the first stone laying ceremony on September 6th to officially launch the construction of a new production site in Amarante for assembling connectors and cable solutions. It will employ 100 professionals. The new Portuguese connector assembly site is the first of its kind outside Switzerland, thus marking a new era of global expansion for the Fischer Connectors Group’s operations.
| | | | Consort NT opens its 1st service centre dedicated to IT infrastructures in Portugal
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| August 2021 |
| | | | The French Digital services company Consort NT continues its international development with the opening of an Infrastructure Service Center supporting French and international clients in the city centre of Porto.
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| Expansion | | SRAM opens PEDAL factory in Portugal
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| August 2021 |
| | | | The U.S. bicycle manufacturer SRAM announced that it has opened a new TIME pedal factory in Portugal after aquiring the sport pedal business earlier this year. The facility, located in Coimbra, will produce 200,000 pairs of pedals per year and will create 25 new jobs.
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| Industry highlight | | Digital Set To Drive Portugal's Recovery, says Global Finance
| | | | Portugal’s attractiveness is set to improve in the coming years according to investors’ perception. The most attractive target areas for FDI in Portugal are manufacturing, R&D and business services, as well as digital economy and technology. The digital economy will be one of the main economic drivers in Portugal’s growth in the coming years, as indicated by 45% of investors. The key drivers for this are the availability of talent with the right skills and reliable infrastructure.
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| DID YOU KNOW? | | Tax incentives for R&d reach record levels
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| Tax incentives applications for corporate investment in Research & Development in Portugal reach record levels in 2020.
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| ACHIeVEMENT | | Portugal ranks #7 in the Corporate Digitalisation Index 2020-2021
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| EIB Investment Survey has recently published a Report on “Digitalization in Europe 2020-2021”. Portugal ranks #7 among EU27, US and UK, in its EIBIS Corporate Digitalisation Index 2020-2021.
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| EVENTS | | THU Returns to Portugal for Upcoming 8th Edition
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| SEPTEMBER 20-25, 2021 |
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| Trojan Horse was a Unicorn (THU 2021), one of the biggest events in the digital and entertainment industry is back in Tróia, Portugal.
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| TICKETS AVAILABLE |
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| | | Recently established in Portugal, we have chosen to complete our map of service centers by relying on the talent pool of Portugal, which provides us solid technical education and first-rate linguistic diversity.
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| Philippe Gervais, Deputy CEO International Branch, CONSORT NT | |
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