Rui Nabeiro

Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro GCIH ComMI (28 March 1931 – 19 March 2023) was a Portuguese businessman and billionaire. He was the founder of the Delta Cafés group.[1][2]

Rui Nabeiro

GCIH ComMI
Born
Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro

(1931-03-28)28 March 1931
Campo Maior, Portugal
Died19 March 2023(2023-03-19) (aged 91)
Lisbon, Portugal
OccupationBusinessman

Biography

Rui Nabeiro was born in Campo Maior, District of Portalegre, Portugal, in 1931.[3] He studied until the fourth grade, the primary school education in Portugal.[4] Starting at 12, he helped his mother in a small grocery store and his father and uncles in a family-owned coffee roasting workshop, at a time when the effects of the civil war in Spain (1936-1939) were still felt and the Portugal-Spain border was a place of smuggling.[1] He assumed the leadership of his family-owned coffee roasting business at 19, and Delta Cafés was founded by him in 1961, around his 30th anniversary.[5] A market leader in the coffee roasting business, he established Novadelta in 1982, and in 1984, he created a new coffee roasting factory, which was the largest on the Iberian Peninsula at the time.[6] In 2022, Rui Nabeiro was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Coimbra under the proposal of its School of Economics (FEUC).[7] In the same year, he won the Award for Merit and Excellence at the Golden Globes.[8]

Distinctions

National orders

References
  1. Infopédia. "Rui Nabeiro - Infopédia". infopedia.pt - Porto Editora (in Portuguese). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  2. "Portugal's Delta Cafes founder Rui Nabeiro dies at 91". Reuters. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  3. "Rui Nabeiro (1931-2023): o homem que pôs Campo Maior no mapa". Expresso (in Portuguese). 19 March 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  4. "Rui Nabeiro (1931-2023), a entrevista: "Nasci pobre, fiz contrabando, tratei bem as pessoas e dormi nas fazendas de café com a rapaziada"". Expresso (in Portuguese). 19 March 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  5. Cipriano, Rita. "Morreu o empresário Rui Nabeiro, fundador da Delta Cafés. Tinha 91 anos". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  6. Constenla, Tereixa (19 March 2023). "Muere Rui Nabeiro, del contrabando a crear el café portugués más conocido en el mundo". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  7. Coimbra, Universidade de. "Universidade de Coimbra atribui Doutoramento Honoris Causa a Rui Nabeiro a 8 de junho". uc.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  8. SIC (3 October 2022). "Comendador Rui Nabeiro agraciado com o Globo de Ouro de Mérito e Excelência". SIC (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  9. "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
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