Visabeira is a Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

-based international conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

 with interests on telecommunications, construction, industry, tourism, real estate, and service industries. Headquartered in Viseu

Viseu

Viseu is both a city and a municipality in the Dão-Lafões Subregion of Centro Region, Portugal. The municipality, with an area of 507.1 km², has a population of 99,593 , and the city proper has 47,250...

, Visabeira began its activity in 1980 within the telecommunications engineering sector.

Visabeira Group

Visabeira Group (Grupo Visabeira) has five sub-holdings (Telecommunications and Construction, Industry, Tourism, Real Estate and Services), and is present in several countries and various disciplines.

Visabeira Telecommunications and Construction

Visabeira Telecommunications and Construction (Visabeira Telecomunicações e Construção) operates in the telecommunications network engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 sector. Visabeira Telecomunicações e Construção, SGPS, SA offers aservices in areas within the civil construction

Construction

In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...

 and public works

Public works

Public works are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community...

 sector, including architectural and engineering design, technical assistance, construction, recovery, and building maintenance.

Visabeira Industry

Visabeira Industry (Visabeira Indústria) offers products in kitchen furniture and stoneware

Stoneware

Stoneware is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic ware with a fine texture. Stoneware is made from clay that is then fired in a kiln, whether by an artisan to make homeware, or in an industrial kiln for mass-produced or specialty products...

, decorative stone extraction and processing, aggregates

Construction Aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates are the most mined material in the world...

, ready-mixed concrete, PVC

PVC

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 and polyethylene

Polyethylene

Polyethylene or polythene is the most widely used plastic, with an annual production of approximately 80 million metric tons...

 pipes, and electrical and telephonic cables. Visabeira Industry owns plants in Portugal, Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

, Angola

Angola

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 and the United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

. Since 2009, Visabeira is the owner of the Vista Alegre

Vista Alegre (company)

Vista Alegre is a Portuguese porcelain manufacturer located in Ílhavo in the district of Aveiro.By May 2001, Grupo Vista Alegre joined with the Atlantis group and created the largest nacional tableware Group and the sixth in the world in this specialty: the Grupo Vista Alegre Atlantis...

 porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and...

company.

Visabeira Tourism

Visabeira Tourism (Visabeira Turismo) offers four and five-star hotel units; tourist resorts; congress, golf, horse-riding, leisure, well-being and entertainment centres; as well as restaurants, multifunction rooms, ice-skating rinks, swimming pools, gyms, tennis and squash courts, Spa and Health Club, recreation sites, and a travel agency.

Visabeira Real Estate

Visabeira Real Estate (Visabeira Imobiliária) carries out projects for the high and medium-high real estate markets.

Visabeira Services

Visabeira Services (Visabeira Serviços) combines a wide range of specialised units in distinct sectors. In utilities, it operates in the areas of electricity, gas, roads, construction and infrastructure, as well as providing active maintenance, corporate multi-assistance, and household and asset management services. It operates in areas such as multisectorial and multinational trading, sales of material and equipment, management and consulting, as well as in the agricultural, forestry and environment sectors.