Adi - Portuguese Innovation Agency
Agência de Inovação, SA (Adi) is a state-owned agency funded by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of the Economy and Employment. Working within a network of administrative departments, technological centres, business associations and other S&T entities located in Portugal, Adi also pursues a policy of promoting internacional co-operation. As such, it acts as a link between the European Union, Asia, Latin America and various international R&D organisations.
	AEM - Portuguese Issuers Association
Established in December 2010, the main goal of the Portuguese Issuers Association (AEM) is to represent and defend the collective interests of the corporate issuers of securities admitted to trading on the national regulated market
	aicep Portugal Global - Trade & Investment Agency
AICEP Portugal Global is a government business entity, created in 2007, focused in encouraging the best foreign companies to invest in Portugal and contribute to the success of Portuguese companies abroad in their internationalization processes or export activities. AICEP is your “one-stop-shop” Agency, and reliable partner, whenever you are looking to invest or buy Portuguese services or products. We help you to find the business partner that best matches your request for Portuguese products or services and we have a global network at your service to better understand and help you to indentify the Portuguese brand, sector, product or service that you are looking for. In the investment field we provide your company with support services, counselling and we coordinate contacts with Portuguese entities involved in investment processes. We stimulate large companies to think in Portugal as their prime investment destination seeking to meet their expectations providing the best guidance and tailored information, when requested, to ensure the success of their investment projects. Our clients are large companies with an annual turnover of 75 million euro or investment projects over 25 million euro to whom we provide a Key Account Manager to help during all steps of the investment process. aicep Portugal Global Group also includes aicep Global Parques - an industrial parks management entity that helps you in the process of choosing the best location for your business and aicep Capital Global - a venture capital society – that invests in Portuguese companies with a relevant internationalization dimension.
	Altri, SGPS, SA
Altri is a leading Portuguese based paper pulp producer focused on bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp. The company operates three pulp mills in Portugal with a total operating capacity around 900 thousand tones/year being one of the most efficient producers with low industrial costs. More than 90% of its production is exported. Currently Altri manages 84 thousand hectares of certified forest in Portugal (FSC and PEFC certifications) granting a self-sufficiency ratio around 30%. The company’s business model is based upon a total forest integration achieved through pulp production and renewable power production (cogen and biomass). The company’s strategy aims to maximize its efficiency, increasing capacity through organic growth, reducing cash cost per ton and increasing profitable market share in key strategic markets.
	APB - Portuguese Banking Association
The main goal of the Portuguese Banking Association (APB) is to promote and carry out initiatives which may contribute to the technical, economic and social development of the business activity of its members, as well as to defend their interests before any public or private, national or international, entities. APB also aims to inform and educate public opinion on banking practices in general, leading to a better use of banking products and services, and to a more transparent relationship between the banking world and society at large.
	APCOR - Portuguese Cork Association
The Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) was created to represent and promote the Portuguese Cork Industry. It is an employers' association, of national scope, founded in 1956 and based in the north of Portugal, in Santa Maria de Lamas, a town just over half an hour from Oporto, the second largest city in the country. All the companies that operate in the fields of production, commerce or export of cork products can join the association.
	APFIPP - Portuguese Association of Investment Funds, Pension Funds and Asset Management
APFIPP is the Portuguese Association of Investment Funds, Pension Funds and Asset Management, and represents, therefore, the interests of the Mutual Funds, the Real Estate Funds, the Pension Funds and Asset Management (also designated by discretionary asset management or management of portfolios on behalf of third parties). APFIPP appeared at the end of 2003, as the result of the enlargement of the activities represented by APFIN - Portuguese Association of Asset Management Companies, Investment Fund Management Companies and Pension Fund Management Companies, with the aim of bringing together under one single entity, the institutional representation of these four sectors. By doing so, it was intended to take advantage of synergies in order to allow a more efficient defense of the Asset Management and Pension Fund Management businesses, although always taking into account the specific characteristics of each type of industries that APFIPP represents. APFIPP mission consists of: a) Representing its Members with the national and international authorities with jurisdiction in respect of the securities market, the real estate market and the pensions market; b) Preparing and organizing explanations, draft legal and regulatory documents, economic, financial and legal advices, and other documents relevant to its associates, related to the business and legal discipline of Asset and Pension Fund Management Companies; c) Promoting the activities undertaken by Asset Management Companies and Pension Fund Management Companies in the capital, financial and real estate markets and near the general public, namely, through the dissemination of statistical information about the sectors represented by APFIPP; d) Ensuring the coordination of all initiatives that may result in interest to its Members, or are deemed appropriate to promote at the level of the Association; e) Contributing to better information of its Members in relation to technical, economic, managerial, legal and other maters related to their activities; f) Promoting basic professional training, and also improvement, recycling and specialization courses of the employees of the Asset Management Companies and Pension Fund Management Companies, as well as learning at various levels in the areas relating to their activities or associated with them. To this effect it could organize training courses within the Association or it could create, with other institutions, jointly or independently, entities that have this object; g) Contributing to the development and promotion of the capital market, the financial market, the real estate market and pensions market, both Portuguese and in the European Economic Area. APFIPP, currently, has 40 Members based in Portugal, representing altogether, approximately 97 of the national Asset Management and Pension Fund markets. Additionally, it has 3 Members based abroad, authorized by the CMVM to market its Funds in Portuguese territory. APFIPP belongs, also to several international associations and federations, namely:- EFAMA – European Fund and Asset Management Association; - EFRP – European Federation for Retirement Provision; - IIFA – International Investment Fund Association; - FIAFIN – Federacion Iberoamericana de Fondos de Invérsion In this context, APFIPP created these pages, where it’s possible to better understand the markets of the sectors represented, and also to know their players and have access to a large number of statistics developed by the Association. Other indicators and statistical publications are available for subscription.
	APS - Portuguese Association of Insurers
APS, which was founded in 1982, is a non-profit employers’ association of the insurance and reinsurance companies operating in the Portuguese market, irrespective of their legal nature or country of origin. The members of APS presently account for 99% of the insurance market in terms of business turnover and human resources employed by the sector. Since its foundation in 1982, APS has been a constant presence of the Portuguese insurance sector, defending the interests of its members both nationally and internationally. The main objectives are: To represent and defend members’ interests on the national and international level; To promote cooperation between members and steer and defend mutual positions; To contribute to the modernisation, prestige and development of the sector; To provide assistance to members, in particular through the carrying out of technical studies; To organise and manage services of common interest to the sector’s companies; To negotiate and enter into collective labour agreements; To perform any other activities of interest to the members or the insurance business.
	ASFAC - Associação de Instituições de Crédito Especializado
	AT - Ministry of Finance - Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira (Tax and Customs Authority)
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	Banco de Portugal (Portuguese Central Bank)
	Banco Popular Espanol
Banco Popular is the fifth largest banking group in Spain in terms of assets (€161.1 billion including Banco Pastor) and client deposits. Banco Popular is one of the most purely retail and commercial banking franchises in Europe. Retail banking represents 82% of the pre-provisioning profit, with corporates, SMEs and independent professionals accounting for 77%. For this activity, we have more than 2,500 branches in Spain and nearly 250 abroad, as well as more than 18,000 highly qualified and motivated employees. We also operate two wholly-owned financial institutions abroad, Banco Popular Portugal and Totalbank in Florida, as well as other banks and financial services entities. The corporate strategy of Banco Popular rests on the pillars of profitability, solvency and efficiency. These strengths are aligned with a business model focused on customers that allows Banco Popular to remain one step ahead of its Spanish and European competitors. This distinctive and differentiated business model has proven to be the most appropriate in the current economic scenario as it highlights the fact that Banco Popular continues to gain market share year after year (7% market share in loans and deposits following the integration of Pastor), gaining the trust of more than seven million customers (including Banco Pastor) and creating value for our shareholders.
	Banco Santander
	Banif Group
	BBC - British Broacasting Corporation
	BES - Banco Espírito Santo
The Banco Espírito Santo Group holds as the core objective of its activity to create value for its Shareholders, Clients and Employees. The Group has set as its first and key mission to align a strategy that aims at the constant and sustained reinforcement of its competitive position in the market with total respect for the interests and wellbeing of its Clients and Employees. The Group believes it is its duty at all times to give an increasingly far-reaching and proactive contribution to the social, cultural and environmental development of the country. For Banco Espírito Santo Group the main pillar for development and strategic differentiation lies in the excellence of service and permanent focus on the needs of each client. As a universal financial group serving all individual, corporate and institutional customer segments, BES Group offers a full range of financial products and services that meet their needs through distinctive approaches and value propositions. The Group’s positioning thus has at its core three basic factors: in-depth knowledge of the needs of each customer segment, (ii) development of the offer in accordance with the needs identified, and (ii) proposing the solutions that best suit each customer segment.
	Bloomberg
	BPI - Banco Português de Investimento
	BPI Investment Bank
	Brisa
	BSG - Barros Sobral G. Gomes and Associates
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	C&W - Cushman & Wakefield
	CaixaBI - Caixa-Banco de Investimento
	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a Portuguese private institution of public utility whose statutory aims are in the fields of arts, charity, education and science. Created by a clause in Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian's will, the Foundation's statutes were approved in 1956.
	CEPS - The Centre for European Policy Studies
Founded in Brussels in 1983, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is among the most experienced and authoritative think tanks operating in the European Union today. CEPS serves as a leading forum for debate on EU affairs, but its most distinguishing feature lies in its strong in-house research capacity, complemented by an extensive network of partner institutes throughout the world. CEPS’ funding is obtained from a variety of sources, including membership fees, project research, foundation grants, conferences fees, publication sales and an annual grant from the European Commission.
	CES - Portuguese Economic and Social Council
The CES is a constitutional body for consultation and social concertation. Its main goals are to promote the participation of economic and social agents in decision-making procedures of the organs of sovereignty, within the scope of socioeconomic issues. It is the space for dialogue between the Government, Social Partners and remaining representatives of an organised civil society par excellence.
	CFP - Portuguese Public Finance Council
The Portuguese Public Finance Council’s mission is to conduct an independent assessment of the consistency, compliance with the stated objectives and the sustainability of public finances, while promoting fiscal transparency. The Council will support the operation of decision-making mechanisms and monitoring of fiscal policy in order to ensure its consistency with a medium-term, transparent and comprehensive strategy for the public sector, respecting a sustainable path. This will build one of the essential pillars of a stable macroeconomic environment, strengthening the foundations for the development of the Portuguese economy.
	CGD - Caixa Geral de Depósitos
CGD has been at the forefront of Portuguese economic and social development. Although operating as a universal bank, CGD is also fully involved in specialised financial services, providing customers with a full service international group. On-going investments in innovation and the application of new technologies to facilitate access to banking services via channels other than traditional branch offices enable CGD to improve its personal customer care capacity. CGD Group has distinguished itself in the Portuguese financial market through its impressive geographic diversification, having adopted a prudent policy of internationalisation, based on clearly defined profitability criteria. The solidity and stability of its financial status is CGD’s most characteristic corporate feature, demonstrating its recognised capacity to increase volume of business and results, even in stages in which the domestic economy has fared less successfully. Notwithstanding the fact that it is a fully competitive organisation whose operations are based on laws regulating the private sector, CGD is a state owned financial institution and the only type of Portuguese bank with this type of equity structure.
	CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 amended the National Security Act to provide for a Director of National Intelligence who would assume some of the roles formerly fulfilled by the DCI, with a separate Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	Cimpor
	CLSBE - Catholic University of Portugal - Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
	CMVM - Portuguese Securities Market Commission
	Cofina, SGPS, SA
Cofina is a Portuguese based media group focused on the printing segment. Cofina owns a diversified portfolio of newspapers and magazines covering a wide range of subjects. The company’s main asset is the daily newspaper “Correio da Manhã”, the leading Portuguese daily newspaper, acquired by Cofina in 2000. Other headers are the sports daily “Record”, the business daily “Jornal de Negócios” and the free daily newspapers “Destak” and “Metro Portugal”Cofina was incorporated in 2005 and its growth profile has been achieved through acquisitions and successful portfolio integration. Currently the company owns 5 daily newspapers and 8 magazines in Portugal, and 1 free daily newspaper in Brazil.
	Compta
Established in 1972, Compta started its activity as a Service Bureau, essentially providing centralized accounting and wage processing services. It soon evolved towards the diversification of its offering, transforming itself into a full service integrator. In 1982 and driven by the demand for the first on-line transactions, Compta initiated the implementation of the first simple network of communications to operate in Portugal. Since then, it has pursued a vigorous growth strategy, backed by its nationwide presence and proven experience as solution integrator in the Telecommunications and Information Systems areas. In 1989 Compta, SA became a publicly quoted company on the Lisbon stock exchange. As result of its strategy and the success of its Customers, Compta has for mission to search in the world-wide market, the best technologies, adapting them to the Portuguese market, to be able to present a full and coherent range of products, services and solutions that assist the diverse entities to improve their performance, in the respective areas of activity. With headquarters in Lisbon and direct presence in Oporto and in Faro, Compta offers a nationwide coverage, and a constant and efficient presence, to meet the most demanding service levels.
	Corticeira Amorim (cork company)
Corticeira Amorim, S.G.P.S., S.A. is the largest producer of cork products in the world and one of the most international of all Portuguese companies, with operations in dozens of countries on all continents. Organised into the five business units - raw materials, cork stoppers, floor and wall coverings, composite cork and insulation cork - Corticeira Amorim offers a huge portfolio of high-quality products incorporated by industries as diverse and demanding as aeronautics, automotive, construction and winegrowing, boosted by its significant investment in research & development. Corticeira Amorim's activity presents unique characteristics in terms of sustainability, constituing a remarkable, yet quite unusual, example of interdependence between industry and an ecosystem, generating wealth and preserving the environment. By promoting the extraction of cork, Corticeira Amorim ensures the viability of the cork oak forest in Portugal and abroad, a native species from the western Mediterranean Basin with a fundamental role in fixing CO2, preserving biodiversity and fighting desertification.
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	Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited - Deloitte
	DGAIED - Ministry of National Defence - Direcção-Geral de Armamento e Infra-Estruturas de Defesa (Directorate-General for Defence Armament and Infrastructures)
	DGES - Ministry of Education and Science - Direcção-Geral do Ensino Superior (Directorate-General for Higher Education)
	DGO - Ministry of Finance - Direcção-Geral do Orçamento (Directorate-General for Budget)
	DGPJ - Directorate General of Justice Policy
	DGTF - Ministry of Finance - Directorate General of Treasury and Finance
	Direcção-Geral das Actividades Económicas (Directorate-General for Economic Activities)
	Direcção-Geral de Energia e Geologia (Directorate-General for Energy and Geology)
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	EACI - Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation
We are an international team of specialists on energy, the environment, business support, multi-modal transport, communication and finance. Our team includes both European Commission officials and professionals coming from the private sector. They all share a commitment to the European way of linking competitiveness and innovation with environmental protection and a cleaner energy future. The remit of Executive Agencies is to help the Commission manage EU programmes more efficiently and with improved results.
	EB - European Comission - Eurobarometer
The Eurobarometer Team administrates and co-ordinates opinion polls within the EU member and candidate states.
	EBA - European Banking Authority
	EC - European Comission - Directorate General Enterprise and Industry
	EC - European Commission
	EC DG EXPO - European Commission - Directorate General for External Policies of the Union
	ECB - European Central Bank
	Economist
	EDP
	EDPR - EDP Renováveis
EDPR is a world leader in the renewable energy sector. The company operates in the most attractive markets and is continuously expanding its business to new areas of the globe. EDPR makes the same commitment to lead each one of its markets and possesses a set of very high quality assets. The company is focused on the operational excellence of those assets, as shown by its above-average operating indicators for the markets in which it operates. The EDP Group is EDPR’s major shareholder. The EDP Group is Portugal’s largest industrial group and one of Europe’s main energy companies.
	Embraer
In 2008, Embraer announced the deployment of two new plants in Portugal, both based in the city of Évora, south of Lisbon. The units will be dedicated, respectively, to manufacture machined metal structures and composite material assemblies. Locating these centers of excellence in Évora resulted from a careful assessment that included several factors, such as potential access to skilled labor, logistical infrastructure, and the presence of the Aeronautical Industry Park near the municipal airport. Construction work is expected to begin in early 2010, and the plants are expected to start operating in 2013.
	Ernst & Young
	ESFG - Espírito Santo Financial Group
ESFG is a fully integrated financial services holding company with investments in sound financial institutions. It has a leading position in the banking and insurance markets in Portugal and, through its principal banking subsidiary Banco Espírito Santo Group (“BES Group”) as well as other banking operations in Switzerland, France and the UAE, has a broad geographic reach. ESFG’s international presence aims to support Portuguese firms and individuals abroad by covering the countries with cultural affinities with Portugal. The components of BES Group are principally Banco Espírito Santo (“BES”), the second largest publically quoted commercial bank in Portugal, and the largest publically quoted Portuguese bank by market capitalisation. It and its subsidiaries, namely BES Investment, a major Iberian investment bank, operate in Portugal, Spain, Angola and Brazil and ESAF-Espírito Santo Activos Financeiros, a major fund management company. In aggregate BES Group is estimated to have held an average market share of 21.2% in Portugal in December 2010 and 24.7% of Portugal's corporate market in the same year. Internationally BES Group is present in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde Islands, China, Spain and the USA through small operational subsidiaries. ESFG has further banking and private banking interests in Switzerland through Banque Privée Espírito Santo, in France though Banque Espírito Santo et de la Vénétie and in Dubai through ES Bankers (Dubai). The insurance group is composed of Companhia de Seguros Tranquilidade (“Tranquilidade”) engaged in non-life agent and direct distribution; T-Vida, a spin-off life company resulting from the purchase by Tranquilidade of agent-originated portfolio of BES Vida ; BES Vida, life company formerly known as Tranquilidade Vida, focusing on life bancassurance; BES Seguros, non-life company, formerly known as Espírito Santo Seguros, focusing on non-life bancassurance. Tranquilidade also offers direct insurance through its fully owned subsidiary LOGO. In the healthcare sector, through Espírito Santo Saude, ESFG owns and operates a total of 18 hospitals and outpatient clinics, residential hospitals and senior citizen residences.
	ESMA - European Securities and Markets Authority
	Espírito Santo Investment Bank
Espirito Santo Investment Bank is the leading investment bank in Portugal. In this exceptional environment, our approach is entirely Client-centric and our business is based on a multi-disciplinary operational structure with wide geographic and sectorial coverage. Espírito Santo Investment Bank’s experience and capabilities in Corporate Finance, Project Finance & Securitization, Acquisition Finance & Other Lending, Real Estate Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Private Equity reach beyond the domestic market and are internationally renowned. Currently we are present in 3 continents, offering integrated investment banking services in the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil, and with a growing business within the UK, Angola, Poland and in the USA, Hong Kong and India.
	Ethnologue
Ethnologue.com is a place where you can conveniently find many resources to help you with your research of the world's languages. Ethnologue.com is owned by SIL International, a service organization that works with people who speak the world’s lesser-known languages.
	European Cluster Observatory
The European Cluster Observatory is an online platform that provides a single access point to information and analysis of clusters and cluster policy in Europe. Originally launched in 2007, the Observatory is now offering a range of new services. It provides data and analysis on clusters and competitiveness, a cluster library, and a classroom for cluster education. The European Cluster Observatory also produces analysis and reports on regional competitiveness conditions, transnational cluster networks, clusters in emerging industries, and studies on better practices in cluster organisations. The Observatory is aimed at three main target groups: - policy makers and government officials at the European, national, regional and local levels;- cluster management staff;- academics and researchers.
	European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe. The Observatory is a partnership between the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, the Governments of Belgium, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the Veneto Region of Italy, The European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, UNCAM (French National Union of Health Insurance Funds), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The Observatory is composed of a Steering Committee, core management team, research policy group and staff. The Observatory’s Secretariat is based in Brussels and has offices in London, Berlin and Moscow.
	Eurostat - European Commission
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	FIR - Forum Investor Relations
	Fisipe
	Fitch Ratings
	FLAD - Luso-American Development Foundation
The Luso-American Development Foundation is a private, financially independent Portuguese institution. Its main goal is to contribute towards Portugal's development by providing financial and strategic support for innovative projects by fostering cooperation between Portuguese and American civil society. It was created in 1985, the fruit of a decision made by the Portuguese government to create a private institution that would be constant, flexible and independent in promoting relations between Portugal and the United States, in the expectation that this type of exchange would further Portugal's economic, social and cultural development.
	Forbes Magazine
	FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is an advisory body of the European Union. It was established in 2007 by a legal act of the European Union and is based in Vienna, Austria. The FRA helps to ensure that fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. It does this by collecting evidence about the situation of fundamental rights across the European Union and providing advice, based on evidence, about how to improve the situation. The FRA also informs people about their fundamental rights. In doing so, it helps to make fundamental rights a reality for everyone in the European Union. What is the Agency's geographical scope The Agency focuses on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU and its 27 Member States. Candidate countries and countries which have concluded a stabilisation and association agreement with the EU can be invited to participate following a special procedure.
	FT - Financial Times
	Fullbright Portugal
	Fundação Cidade de Guimarães (City of Guimarães Foundation)
	Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation)
The Fundação Oriente aims at pursuing activities of a cultural, educational, artistic, scientific, social and philanthropic nature, namely in Portugal and Macao that shall aim to develop and continue the historical and cultural ties linking Portugal and the Orient, specifically China.
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	Galp Energia
	GEE - Office for Strategy and Studies
	GEP (MSSS) - Ministry of Solidarity ans Social Security - Gabinete de Estratégia e Planeamento (Office of Strategy and Planning)
	GERA - Global Entrepreneurship Research Association
GEM is formed of a consortium of ‘National Teams’. Each Team is led by a local university or academic institution. The team is the official national representative of the project - responsible for collecting GEM data in the country on an annual basis, producing a ‘National Report’ on their findings, and acting as the point of contact for GEM enquiries. The global network of National Teams is home to some of the world's most esteemed entrepreneurship scholars. In January each year, its members congregate for the GEM Annual Meeting, where they discuss research developments and plan the forthcoming data collection process. The activities of the National Teams are coordinated by a central team of staff within the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA). GERA is the umbrella organization that owns GEM, registered as a private limited not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom. It is funded by National Team fees, and the contributions of sponsoring institutions. GERA is primarily a virtual organisation, with staff from all over the world using technology to communicate and manage the data collection process. The board of GERA is composed of National Team members and representatives from GEM’s founding and sponsoring institutions.
	Glintt
Global Intelligent Technologies, SGPS, S.A., is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides such services as maintenance of information technology (IT) systems and equipment, IT outsourcing solutions, and business management, consulting and development services.
	Goldman Sachs
	Governo de Portugal (Portuguese Government)
	Governo Regional da Madeira (Regional Government of Madeira)
	GPEARI - Ministry of Finance - Gabinete de Planeamento, Estratégia, Avaliação e Relações Internacionais (MF Office of Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations)
	GPG - Global Property Guide
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	Heritage Foundation
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	Ibersol
	IBP - International Budget Partnership
	IGCP - Portuguese Treasury and Government Debt Agency
	ILO - International Labour Organization
	IMD - International Institute for Management Development
	IMF - International Monetary Fund
	Imobiliária Construtora Grão-Para
Founded in Portugal in 1960, the Imobiliária Construtora Grão Pará, began operating in the construction industry and has dedicated mainly to the construction of major projects such as hotels which were managed by its associated Interhotel - International Society of Hotels. It works of reference are part of the Estoril Autodrome, its official name Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silva, who brought Portugal under the spotlight of the world and was the stage for big hits and emotions, from the 4th to the 16th Grand Prix of Portugal Formula 1 between 1984 and 1996 with the presence of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna. The first touristic city of Madeira -Matur Holiday Club - with design and construction of our Company was another example of great expansion of tourism in our country The complex has a 5 star hotel, the most exquisite of Madeira Island, Olympic pool, villas in banda, flats, bridge club, restaurants, supermaket, shops, tennis courts and all the infrastructure that made it to mature into one of the most famous "resorts" of the island. More recently, in partnership with Agroman, the recovery of the Building Area Chiado in Lisbon is another symbol of excellence and entrepreneurial dynamism. As from its foundation, the Group Grão Pará continue to engage in dignified projects for building and operating in the world of hospitality.
	Impresa Group - Expresso
	Impresa Group - Impresa
By the end of 2008, the IMPRESA Group had become the largest media group in Portugal with a turnover of approximately 273 million euros. Its activity is divided into three business areas – SIC, IMPRESA Publishing and IMPRESA Digital, with interests which cover a television, cable channels, the newspaper Expresso, an extensive portfolio of magazines, various Internet properties as well as interests in distribution.
	Impresa Group - SIC Notícias
	Inapa
Inapa is currently the fourth largest European paper distributor with sales around one billion euros and a strong presence overseas, in seven European countries (Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Portugal) and one African (Angola). It is the only European paper merchant listed. Although paper is Inapa’s main business, packaging and visual communication are businesses in development, already responsible for 19% the Group operational results.
	INCM - Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office
	INE - Statistics Portugal
	Infarmed - National Authority of Medicines and Health Products - Ministry of Health
	Instituto Camões (Camões Institute)
	Invest Lisboa
Invest Lisboa is a partnership between the Lisbon Municipality, the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Portuguese Business Development Agency. We have solutions for your investments in Lisbon. Our personalized, confidential, and free of charge services include:- Identifying business opportunities, partners and locations;- Supporting investors throughout the decision-making process, providing information and contacts in local and national institutions;- Contributing to the simplification of administrative proceedings;- Mobilizing partners around the design, development and implementation of projects that guarantee the best investments for Lisbon;- Organizing visits to suitable premises for the location of companies.
	ISCTE-IUL - University Institute of Lisbon
	ISP - Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority
	IWS - Internet World Stats
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	J.P. Morgan Chase Co - J.P. Morgan
	Jerónimo Martins
Jerónimo Martins is a Food Distribution Group with market leadership positions in Poland and Portugal, which in 2011 posted sales of 9.8 billion euros (58.8% in Poland and 41.2% in Portugal), an EBITDA of 722 million euros (63.5% in Poland and 36.5% in Portugal) and occupied at the end of the year the third position in market capitalisation on the NYSE Euronext Lisbon, to the value of 8.0 billion euros. The Group holds a portfolio of businesses focused on the food area, and which combines the growth of Biedronka in Poland with the strength of the market positions of its Retail and Wholesale operations in Portugal and the maturity and profitability of the industrial assets from its partnership with Unilever, also in Portugal. The Company's business is structured in three segments with the sales break down as follows: Food Distribution (96.8%), Manufacturing (2.3%) and Services (0.9%). In the Food Distribution segment, the Company operates supermarkets (369 stores under the banner Pingo Doce) and cash and carry (41 stores under the banner Recheio) in Portugal and retail stores (1,873 stores Biedronka) in Poland. In the Manufacturing segment, the Company operates through a joint-venture with Unilever.
	JN - Controlinveste Group - Jornal de Notícias
	Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies
The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies is a leading source of ground-breaking research and knowledge about the nonprofit sector, social investing, and the tools of government. Working in collaboration with governments, international organizations, investment innovators, and colleagues around the world, the Center encourages the use of this knowledge to strengthen and mobilize the capabilities and resources of the public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors to address the complex problems that face the world today. The Center conducts research and educational programs that seek to improve current understanding, analyze emerging trends, and promote promising innovations in the ways that government, civil society, and business can collaborate to address social and environmental challenges.
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	Life Consortium
The projct aims to create skills for design, development and industrialization of functional and technical solutions for aircraft interiors aiming at eco-efficient, lightweight and comfort in an integrated and innovative design. This initiative is made possible through the involvement of suppliers in the aviation and transport industry, design companies, entities of the Portuguese National Science and Technology (NSTS) and associated companies of PEMAS (Portuguese Aerospace Industry Association).
	Lisgráfica
	LSEG - London Stock Exchange
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	MAMAOT - Ministry of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning
	Martifer
Martifer is a multinational industrial group with over 3,000 employees and an activity which is based on metallic construction and solar energy sectors. Martifer SGPS, SA is a holding company of the Group and has been listed on Euronext Lisbon since June 2007. In 2010, operating revenues from its core activities totalled 602.1 million Euros. Martifer Metallic Constructions is a leading player thanks to its capacity of innovation and vocation towards highly complex and large projects, and aims to obtain a leading position in the metallic construction sector in Europe, Brazil and Angola. It also produces components for wind energy, oil and gas. Martifer Solar is focused on EPC, O&M and the distribution of PV modules and components, via its subsidiary MPrime. Based in Portugal it is present in Europe, North and Latin America, Africa and Asia. The company has already participated in the implementation of 200 MW of photovoltaic solar energy worldwide.
	MDN - Ministry of National Defence
	Media Capital Group
Grupo Media Capital is the leading media group in Portugal. In the television segment, It owns TVI – the leading Portuguese free-to-air TV broadcasting channel – the news channel TVI24 and TVI Internacional, the second largest radio group in Portugal (including Rádio Comercial, M80, CidadeFM, StarFM, Best Rock, VodafoneFM and the online radio station Cotonete) and Media Capital Multimedia, a multimedia company whose principal brand, IOL, is the second largest national internet gateway. The Group has also strong positions in other business related to the media sector, such as Audiovisual Production – through the multinational company Plural Entertainment – music edition and musical events (Farol) and cinema and video distribution (Castello Lopes). Media Capital’s leadership strategy is grounded in a commitment to develop information, culture and entertainment in Portugal, having as a solid reference the interests and preferences of viewers, listeners, and shareholders.
	Millennium BCP
	Millennium BCP Investimento
	Ministry of Economy and Employment
	Ministry of Education and Science
	Ministry of Finance
	Ministry of Justice
	MIPEX - Migrant Integration Policy Index
The Migrant Integration Policy Index project is led by the British Council and the Migration Policy Group and partners with 37 national-level organisations in the 31 participating countries.
	Moody's Corporation - Moody's Investors Service
	Mota-Engil
	MSSS - Ministry of Solidarity and Social Security
	MTS Group
MTS is Europe’s premier electronic fixed income trading market, with over 500 unique counterparties trading European government bonds, quasi-government bonds, corporate bonds, covered bonds and repo, and with average daily volume exceeding EUR 85 billion. MTS’ state-of-the-art technology delivers efficient and effective solutions, which when combined with expert knowledge and client-focused consultancy benefits all market participants, including issuers, primary dealers, and market makers. MTS supports the full chain of pre-trade, trade execution and post-trade capabilities across cash and repo markets, and also provides independent benchmark fixed income market data and comprehensive fixed income indices. Its platforms are used daily by a very wide number of diverse counterparties, ensuring optimum liquidity.
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	NATO - OTAN - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
	Novabase
Novabase is the Portuguese company leader in IT and it has been listed on Euronext Lisbon since July 2000. Novabase has specialized products and services for the Telecoms & Media, Financial Services, Government & Healthcare, Energy & Utilities, Aerospace & Transportation and Manufacturing & Services sectors. Its current business lines are Business Solutions, Infrastructures & Managed Services, Digital TV and Venture Capital. The company currently has offices in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, the Middle East and Angola. Novabase’s vision is to make life simpler and happier for people and businesses, through technology.
	NYSE Euronext Lisbon
	NYX - NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX), a leading global operator of financial markets and a provider of innovative trading technologies, is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. With exchanges in the US and Europe, NYSE Euronext equities marketplaces represent one-third of equities trading worldwide. NYSE Euronext is also one of the world’s leading futures and options trading venues, with four markets based in the US and Europe offering derivatives on commodities, FX, equities, bonds, interest rates, indices and swaps. Its commercial technology division, NYSE Technologies provides best-in-class transaction, data, and infrastructure management services and solutions.
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	OBSERVARE - Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa - Observatory of Foreign Relations
	OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
	OLP - Observatório da Língua Portuguesa (Observatory of the Portuguese Language)
	Orey Antunes
Founded in 1886, the Orey Group has a business tradition dating back over more than a century. Throughout its long history it has gone through countless economic cycles and sundry phases of social and political life, both in Portugal and abroad. Since it was set up, its management has been in the hands of the Orey family, now the fourth generation. In recent years the Group had been successful in making its management more professional, both at subsidiary level and within the board of directors itself, adopting best management practices, instilling dynamics of change and defining strategic guidelines for given time frames. During 2009 the Group made a start to a process of strategic repositioning and now stands in the marketplace as an investment holding company. This new situation lends sequence to the strategic plan with a view to focusing the Group´s business on the financial area, managing the Group´s traditional business areas (shipping, transport and logistics, and technical representations) through a private equity fund, in turn managed by the Group´s financial area. To this end, a private equity fund is being set up under the name Orey Capital partners. The aim is for it to acquire the non-financial companies, particularly those linked to the traditional business areas of shipping and technical representations, and also to invest in new opportunities to acquire similar companies.
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	PEMAS - Portuguese Association for the Aerospace Industry
The PEMAS association is a Network of Portuguese companies for the aerospace industry. The specific objectives of the group are: 1. To integrate national aerospace projects; 2. To integrate international aerospace projects (Europe, United States and Brazil); 3. To participate in the definition of public policies for the aerospace industry. The PEMAS open network aims at integrating challenging cutting edge technology projects. PEMAS is a private non-profit organization formalized in February 2006.
	PEProbe - Portugal Economy Probe
Portugal Economy Probe is a non-commercial and not-for-profit entity seeking to bring transparency and easy access to economic and financial data relative to Portugal. This initiative is backed by the Portuguese Banking Association (APB) and a group of renowned private institutions, namely the Banco Espírito Santo Group, the Caixa Geral de Depósitos Group, the Impresa Group, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and Fundação Oriente. We have produced a website in English where users are guided towards the best documents issued by top organisations about the Portuguese economy and financial system. Our team comprises a group of dedicated professionals with experience in the capital markets and in the Internet field. The financial backup is the result of a generous endeavour from the Portuguese civil society, which felt that a website aggregating all the relevant information available about Portugal’s economy and finances was non-existent and particularly needed at these times of economic and fiscal strain. Portugal Economy Probe's target audiences are decision makers in the global capital markets, investors, and all parties who keep an interest in the current state of the Portuguese economy and the undergoing efforts to achieve fiscal consolidation.
	POFC-COMPETE Operational Competitiveness Programme
	PORDATA Contemporary Portugal Database - Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation
	Portucel Soporcel
	PSC - European Commission - Political and Security Committee
	PT - Portugal Telecom
	PwC Australia - PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia
	PwC Portugal - PricewaterhouseCoopers Portugal
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	Ramada Investimentos
F. Ramada Investimentos is the parent company of a group of companies that develop their activity in the special steels and high density storage systems. F. Ramada Investimentos also controls F. Ramada II, Imobiliária, S.A., focused on management of forest assets.
	Reditus
The Reditus Group is a reference in the outsourcing services market. The Group companies offer an integrated range of services that contribute directly to cost reduction and an increase in efficiency for their customers, which are mostly medium-sized and large companies. In the course of its business, the Group has a strong ally in information technologies, essential to optimise return on the services provided to its customers.
	REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais
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	S&P - Standard & Poor's
	Safe Luggage Consortium
	SAG GEST - Soluções Automóvel Globais, SGPS, S.A.
SAG GEST - Solucoes Automovel Globais, SGPS, S.A. is a holding company. Through subsidiaries the Company imports, retails, and distributes vehicles and provides financial services to car dealerships and retail customers. SAG offers purchase financing, rental, operational leasing, fleet management, and repair services. The Company operates in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil.
	Salvador Caetano Group - Toyota Caetano Portugal, SA
With more than 40 year of operations, Toyota Caetano Portugal, S.A. is one among more than 100 companies integrated in Salvador Caetano Holding (a family holding established in 1946), and which encloses all import, distribution, retail and after-sales business activity of Toyota and Lexus brands in Portugal, where it also operates BT brand for industrial equipment; besides Portugal market, it also imports, distributes, and provides retail and after-sales service for Toyota make in Cape Verde. Currently with more than 1700 direct employees, since the year 1971 Toyota Caetano Portugal, S.A. has also the first European Toyota manufacturing plant in operation, located in Ovar (40km to Oporto City – in the north), from where Toyota commercial vehicles are produced for national and European markets. Toyota Hiace and Toyota Dyna are currently in production to more than 10 different markets. In the year 2011 sales & services volume accounted for a total of 293.443.182€.
	Semapa
	SIC - Impresa Group - Sociedade Independente de Comunicação
	SLB - Benfica
	Soares da Costa
Soares da Costa is one of the largest Portuguese groups in the construction and public works sector, with more than 90 years of track record and sound international operations, that represent more than 50% of its turnover. Soares da Costa operates abroad on a regular basis in Angola, U.S. (Florida, Georgia and Texas) and Mozambique. The construction is its core activity, although also has operations in other areas: infra-structure concessions, real estate and energy services. Thw Group has a professionalised management team and a stable shareholder structure (with a majority owning shareholder) being listed in the NYSE Euronext (Lisbon).
	Sogrape Vinhos
Sogrape Vinhos was born in 1942, with the ambition of making Portuguese wines known throughout the world and a long-term vision based on marketing quality wines, the importance of new brands and their presentation. Its founder's visionary genius and the consistent way the family's following two generations have managed this legacy and planned for the future are enshrined in the Mission and Values.
	Sonae Capital
Since its incorporation, in December 2007, Sonae Capital Group’s business portfolio has been evolving from a fragmented to a more focused structure, which currently comprises three business areas: Sonae Turismo, SC Assets and Spred. Sonae Turismo carries out business in the development and management of tourism resorts (of which troiaresort is the flagship project), hospitality (with 5 hotels under management) and health & fitness (with 11 fitness units under management). SC Assets is responsible for property management, real estate procurement services, sales of properties not intended for development by resorts and residential projects, management of leases, building technical management and condominium management. Spred is focused on refrigeration, air conditioning and maintenance (through the Sistavac Group), with operations in Portugal, Spain and Brazil, and on the energy and environment business (mostly ownership and management of cogeneration plants).
	Sonae Indústria
Sonae Industria is one of the largest wood based panel producers in the world. Its product range includes: PB (Particleboard), MDF (Medium Density Fibreboard) and OSB (Oriented Strand Board) for furniture, building, decoration and DIY (do it yourself) industries. SONAE (the original company) was founded in 1959 at the site of its present location in Maia, near Oporto in the north of Portugal, and today it is located in 7 countries and in 3 different continents. Its main shareholder is EFANOR (with 51%) which belongs to Mr. Belmiro de Azevedo, one of the most respected Portuguese entrepreneurs.
	Sonae SGPS
Sonae is a retail company that operates both food and non food stores, with two major partnerships in the shopping centres (Sonae Sierra, 50% ownership) and telecommunications (Sonaecom, 53% ownership) sectors. The company is the leading food retailer in Portugal, through the “Continente” brand, and has a strong presence in Iberia in the segments of sports goods, apparel and consumer electronics. Sonae’s consolidated turnover exceeded € 5.7bn in 2011. The group employs over 40 thousand employees across its businesses. Leveraging on the exceptional asset base in Portugal and on its resources and key competences, Sonae is now aiming to create value and generate growth via international expansion and a diversification of investment styles.
	Sonaecom
	Sumol+Compal
SUMOL + COMPAL comes into being in 2009 as a result of the merger of two companies recognised for the quality and naturalness of their products and owners of two historic Portuguese brands that are among the most well known, popular and regularly consumed in the local marketplace: SUMOL and COMPAL. We are proud of our joint heritage. Together, we have a history of over 100 years, as each of the companies has been selling its products for over 50 years. Sumolis started out as a small company in 1945 called Refrigor, while Compal was created in 1952. We are a leading business in the Portuguese non-alcoholic drinks market. We own and represent some of the most popular and biggest-selling brans in Portugal, with extensive market share in carbonated soft drinks, juices, nectars, non-carbonated fruit drinks and sparkling and still water, including aromatized varieties. In January 2011, in the aim of optimising internal processes, SUMOL + COMPAL Distribuição, SA (previously responsible or the sale and distribution of our products in Portugal and the rest of the world) and Sasel, SA (owner of the Água Serra da Estrela brand) are incorporated into SUMOL + COMPAL Marcas, SA.
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	Teixeira Duarte
	Transparência e Integridade - Associação Cívica
	Transparency International
	Turismo de Portugal (Portuguese Tourism Authority)
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	UN - United Nations
	UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
	United Nations - World Tourism Organization UNWTO
	UTAO - Budget Support Technical Unit
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	WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development
	WFE - World Federation of Exchanges
	World Bank
	WSJ - Wall Street Journal
	WTTC - World Travel & Tourism Council
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is the forum for business leaders in the Travel & Tourism industry. With Chief Executives of some one hundred of the world's leading Travel & Tourism companies as its Members, WTTC has a unique mandate and overview on all matters related to Travel & Tourism.
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	ZON Multimedia