Tag: Portugal

Operators launch into finance: MásMóvil will offer loans of up to 60,000 euros

Operators launch into finance: MásMóvil will offer loans of up to 60,000 euros

MasMovil breaks into the consumer credit sector, which will reach up to 60,000 euros for its clients through MoneyGo. The operator, which controls the Xfera Consumer Finance company in which Cetelem also participates, enters into new financial services, which will include another service such as debit cards foreseeably before the end of the year . […]

Lumon will build its third production plant in Antequera: third factory in the world, 20 million investment and 200 jobs

Lumon will build its third production plant in Antequera: third factory in the world, 20 million investment and 200 jobs

The multinational Lumon, a company headquartered in Malaga dedicated to the design, manufacture, sale and assembly of glass curtains, has announced the construction in Antequera of its third plant in the world. A factory you will invest in 20 million euros, which would be operational at the end of 2022 and whose production will be […]

Three consecutive PCRs for visitors to the UK

Three consecutive PCRs for visitors to the UK

Visitors to the UK from countries like Spain should not only show a “negative” PCR performed in the last 72 hours, but undergo two other consecutive Covid tests on the second and eighth days after arrival, and isolate themselves for a total of ten days, regardless of the results of the tests. Spaniards, or Britons […]

Cellnex buys Hivory in France for 5.2 billion and increases capital by 7 billion

Cellnex buys Hivory in France for 5.2 billion and increases capital by 7 billion

The Spanish company Cellnex buys the French company Hivory, with a portfolio of 10,500 telecommunications sites in France. The agreement contemplates an initial investment of around 5,200 million euros, as Cellnex has made known to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). In addition, the company has agreed on an investment program for the deployment of […]

Germany closes its borders this Saturday to citizens from countries with variants of coronavirus

Germany closes its borders this Saturday to citizens from countries with variants of coronavirus

The nationals and citizens of those countries residing in Germany, passengers in transit and transporting goods, escape this restriction. Germany will ban from this Saturday the entry into the territory of citizens from countries with high rates of infection by variants of coronavirus, according to the Interior Ministry. The countries affected by the measure are […]

Dia closes 2020 with the first growth in sales in years

Dia closes 2020 with the first growth in sales in years

The Dia supermarket chain, present in Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Brazil, managed to close 2020 with the first improvement in sales in years. Specifically, it increased sales by 0.2%, to 6,882 million. The company will present its accounts on February 26, but provided the data this Thursday to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). Like-for-like […]

The United Kingdom bans flights from Portugal and 14 South American countries

The United Kingdom bans flights from Portugal and 14 South American countries

The Government of the United Kingdom announced this Thursday the ban on flights from Portugal and fourteen South American countries to try to prevent the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus detected in Brazil. The British Minister of Transport, Grant Shapps, reported that arrivals will be suspended from this morning from Argentina, Brazil, […]

Vodafone and Telefónica give themselves free rein to monetize their joint telecommunications towers in the United Kingdom

Vodafone and Telefónica give themselves free rein to monetize their joint telecommunications towers in the United Kingdom

Vodafone and Telefonica have signed a long-term agreement to add value and monetize their joint telecommunications infrastructure in the United Kingdom through Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited (CTIL), a company that they both control 50% under the formula of joint venture. This pact is effective from this month and will run for eight years, with the […]

El Corte Inglés will create a new logistics subsidiary to compete with Amazon

El Corte Inglés will create a new logistics subsidiary to compete with Amazon

The English Court will create a new independent subsidiary dedicated to logistics to compete with Amazon and with the aim of offering its infrastructure to third parties and tripling its business volume to a turnover of 1,200 million euros, as reported to Europa Press in sources by the group chaired by Marta Ãlvarez. Specific, the […]

Spain also suspends its flights and the United Kingdom is isolated due to the new strain of coronavirus

Spain also suspends its flights and the United Kingdom is isolated due to the new strain of coronavirus

At the end of last January, when the coronavirus was spreading across China but had not yet reached Europe, British Airways decided to suspend all its flights with the Asian country. It was the first airline to take this measure, which was to last until March. By then the virus had already roamed Europe, and […]