🇵🇹 Daily Portugal news for expats & investors — FREE Subscribe

Retail

Interior of a brightly-lit supermarket aisle with stocked grocery shelves — Mercadona confirms €150M and twelve new Portuguese stores for 2026.

Mercadona Commits €150 Million and Twelve New Portuguese Stores for 2026 — Algarve and Beja Districts Debut at Portimão, Faro and the Beja Retail Park as the Spanish Chain Targets 81 Outlets by Year-End

Mercadona has detailed a €150 million Portuguese investment that opens twelve new stores in 2026, drops the brand into the Algarve and Beja districts for the first time and takes the chain's national footprint to 81 outlets covering 16 of 18 mainland districts.
The Portugal Brief
Jerónimo Martins Shutters the 18-Store Hussel Chocolate Network by 27 April — Eight Permanent Staff Move to Pingo Doce After the 2024 Hussel GmbH Bankruptcy and the €893,000 Loss

Jerónimo Martins Shutters the 18-Store Hussel Chocolate Network by 27 April — Eight Permanent Staff Move to Pingo Doce After the 2024 Hussel GmbH Bankruptcy and the €893,000 Loss

Jerónimo Martins confirmed on 18 May that all 18 Hussel chocolate stores closed by 27 April, with 8 of 60 permanent staff moving to Pingo Doce. The wind-down follows the 2024 bankruptcy of German parent Hussel GmbH, a €893,000 net loss at the Portuguese subsidiary and the cocoa-price bull cycle.
The Portugal Brief
Sonae's Musti Walks Into Norway With the Petco Retail Acquisition on Tuesday 13 May — Nordic Pet-Care Champion Adds Its Fourth Country, ZU's 68 Portuguese Stores Sit Outside the Deal Perimeter

Sonae's Musti Walks Into Norway With the Petco Retail Acquisition on Tuesday 13 May — Nordic Pet-Care Champion Adds Its Fourth Country, ZU's 68 Portuguese Stores Sit Outside the Deal Perimeter

Sonae's Nordic pet-care subsidiary Musti acquired Norway's Petco Retail AS on Tuesday 13 May, taking the Helsinki-based champion into its fourth Nordic country. Portugal's ZU chain — 68 stores and €8.4M in quarterly sales — stays on a separate perimeter inside Sonae MC.
The Portugal Brief