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This Top Portuguese Factory Started Small

22 Sept 2025 · 0 min

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In this interview, Speaker A highlights the extreme risk in high‑end garment manufacturing, noting that a single label costing just five cents can jeopardize a €500,000 production run. Speaker B emphasizes that creating garments at this level demands deep passion, which Speaker A traces back to childhood experiences with his father—touching fabrics in stores and learning to identify material composition. Initially, the company focused on serving small brands and deliberately avoided scaling. However, a breakthrough came when an Italian client engaged them, prompting rapid growth. This partnership marked a turning point, and by 2020 the factory entered the luxury market, fundamentally changing its scale and positioning.

If I tell you that one label that costs 5 cents can ruin a production of €500,000, so it cannot be crazier than this, right?
Making garments at this level requires a certain degree of passion.
Why are you so passionate about this? The influence of my father. It's a big presence because I remember when I was a kid, I was going to a store and touching the fabrics to understand what's the composition. We have like a joke between my father, who can guess more. So this is a thing that or you like it or you don't like it. In the beginning, we were focused focusing only on small brands. I don't want to go big, I want to maintain these. But suddenly I met Italian customer that make us get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. That was like the change the game. So up to 2020, we enter in the luxury market, and this is when the things change.