Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro GCIH ComMI (28 March 1931 – 19 March 2023) was a Portuguese billionaire businessman and philanthropist.[1] He was the founder of the Delta Cafés group.[2][3]
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| Born | Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro 28 March 1931 |
| Died | 19 March 2023 (aged 91) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Biography
editRui Nabeiro was born in Campo Maior, District of Portalegre, Portugal, in 1931.[4] He studied until the fourth grade, the primary school education in Portugal.[5] 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.[2] 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.[6] 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.[7] In 2022, Rui Nabeiro was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Coimbra under the proposal of its School of Economics (FEUC).[8] In the same year, he won the Award for Merit and Excellence at the Golden Globes.[9]
Distinctions
editNational orders
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Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (5 January 2006)[10]
Commander of the Order of Entrepreneurial Merit, Class of Industrial Merit (9 June 1995)[10]
References
edit- ^ "Visão | Rui Nabeiro: Uma vida em 18 momentos". Visão (in European Portuguese). 19 March 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
- ^ a b Infopédia. "Rui Nabeiro - Infopédia". infopedia.pt - Porto Editora (in Portuguese). Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ "Portugal's Delta Cafes founder Rui Nabeiro dies at 91". Reuters. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ "Rui Nabeiro (1931-2023): o homem que pôs Campo Maior no mapa". Expresso (in Portuguese). 19 March 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Cipriano, Rita. "Morreu o empresário Rui Nabeiro, fundador da Delta Cafés. Tinha 91 anos". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 6 April 2023.