Turnover: 837.8 million EUR (2022)
Country: Portugal
- The Amorim family group is one of Portugal's largest international companies
- Its origins date back to the cork industry in 1870, and today it is the world market leader.
- Amorim was at the origin and heart of this global expansion movement, investing and believing in the material
- Cork is the raw material of choice in sectors such as wine, sustainable construction, aeronautics and aerospace, transport, fashion, design, sport and countless other applications
- 4600 collaborators
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Amorim, the Portuguese cork emperor 03/07/2023
- Current sales: 1 billion euros, sales ten years ago: 0.5 billion euros
- Portugal is home to 34% of the world's cork oak forests
- Spain is home to 27% of the world's cork oak forests
- Oak forests fix twenty times more CO2 than the processing of their bark emits.
- Amorim was founded in 1870 by Antonio Alves Amorim
- France is their first market
- The Amorim family retains a 71% stake in the company
- Research to eradicate TCA took six years and cost 14 million euros
- Amorim has filed some fifty patents since 2011
- 57 million euros invested in an 8,000-hectare forest Amorim produces 50,000 trivets a day for Ikea
- Amorim ships 3,200 tons of granules a year for Birkenstock insoles.