Global meeting brings together partners from the insurance sector
The Ageas Group organizes, every year, a worldwide meeting with all the partners with whom it works. This year, the initiative took place at the Cruise Terminal of the Port of Leixões, bringing together more than a hundred partners.
The Ageas Group organizes, every year, a worldwide meeting with all the partners with whom it works. This year, the initiative took place at the Cruise Terminal of the Port of Leixões, bringing together more than a hundred partners, with special emphasis on the presence of an Asian delegation.
The CEO of the Ageas Portugal Group, Steven Braekeveldt, welcomed the participants and briefly explained the purpose of this meeting. Remember that the group inaugurated, in 2022, a new building in Porto (located between VCI and Avenida AEP), an investment of about 30 million euros.
Also present at the opening of the works was the Mayor of Porto, who highlighted some of the aspects of municipal policies for this area. "The municipality of Porto has a broad strategy in place to attract foreign investment to the city, develop its innovation hub, internationalise its economy and attract international talent," said Rui Moreira.
He added: "companies find in Porto technological talent and disruptive innovation, modern infrastructure and economic competitiveness, quality of life and environmental sustainability, intercultural tolerance and cosmopolitan environment.
The work developed by InvestPorto
The InvestPorto agency has been the main driver of the municipality's strategy to strengthen the competitiveness of the local economy, attract private investment and improve the business environment. Since its creation in 2015, it has already supported around 430 investment projects, representing 725 million euros and 14,400 jobs. More than 65% of these projects are foreign direct investment and fall under the so-called digital economy.
In 2022, the municipality was able to attract around €433 million in direct investment to the city, more than double the previous year, creating 1,380 jobs.
"The results of this strategy are unequivocal. In Porto there were, at the end of 2020, 1,282 companies and 12,743 jobs in the area of digital technologies. Between 2017 and 2020, there was a net creation of 205 new companies and 4,335 jobs, which corresponds to an increase of 19% and 52%, respectively," concluded Rui Moreira.
For the first time, the city is leader in the category "fDI Strategy - Large Cities", due to the results achieved with the municipal strategy to promote foreign direct investment. Very recently, Porto even rose to the top of the ranking of European cities and regions of the future, prepared by fDi Intelligence - a division of the Financial Times Group specialised in international investment.
