History

It’s founded the first company of the Group – Bel Network Solutions – originally dedicated to software development and the presentation of computer solutions, computer equipment sales and rendering of services in this sector of the market.

It’s founded Bel Distribuição S.A., a company that initially aims the acquisition of small companies of commerce and distribution in the central zone of the country and the acquisition of vending machines. Simultaneously, the company expands the business to Food&Beverage area.

The group acquires the vending assets of company Oliveira Beja, in Santarém.

The Group acquires the vending assets of company Miranda Unipessoal, in Santarém.

The company DLP Portugal, S.A. is founded to expand the importation and exportation of Food&Beverage and Tobacco, and is acquired the vending company of Carregado.

The Group acquires Leirivending – Comércio, Distribuição e Vending S.A, a company with 14 years of history in the vending market of coffee, beverages and snacks that operates within the HORECA channel. 

The Group acquires the company Beiradis, the biggest distributor in Coimbra, also with vending machine.

Urbilink – Mediação Imobiliária, Lda, a real estate company, is acquired with the intention of creating a solid base for the development of this new strand that the Group also began to explore. Also launched in the same year the first own brand of the Group, the Coffee Bel.

The Group acquires Futurete-Indústria de Máquinas de Café, Lda, a producer of handmade coffee machines and grinders. The company Bel Network Solutions gives birth to Grupo Bel S.A., a portuguese holding aggregating all the companies within the group. Currently, it is based in Carnaxide where the Innovation Centre is also housed. The Innovation Centre is dedicated to technology development of new projects, with the special focus on patents associated with the new products of the Group companies.

It’s launched Amicis Gin brand, a Premium Gin brand produced in the center of the country.

The Group acquires the companies SDT- Sociedade de Distribuição, Lda in Lisbon area and STR- Sociedade de Distribuição Lda, a distribution society in Santarém.

The Grupo Bel becomes a shareholder of Jornal Económico and a reference shareholder of the Group Active Space Techologies, S.A.. In the same year, with a view to the Recovery and Preservation of National Assets and Social Responsibility, the Grupo Bel also becames a shareholder of Francisco Soares da Silva, S.A., commonly known as Fábrica das Fitas.

It is acquired Metalúrgica Luso-Italiana S.A., holder of a Portuguese brand of faucets – Zenite. This acquisition is the result of Grupo’s Bel strategy of recovering the Portuguese business manufacturing. Aslo this year, it is acquired Augusto Duarte Reis, S.A.,  a company dedicated to the distribution, promotion and vending of Food & Beverage and Tobacco.

The company Aximage- Comunicação e Imagem, Lda, specialized in opinion polls is acquired. Furthermore, it was also acquired Grupo Flugraph-SGPS, S.A., which holds stakes in real estate and hotel companies, such as: Estalagem do Farol, S.A., Sociedade Agro-turística da Herdade do Rio Mourinho, S.A. and Propriurbe– Propriedades e Urbanizações, S.A..