Rui Nabeiro
Rui Nabeiro | |
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| Born | Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro 28 March 1931 |
| Died | 19 March 2023 (aged 91) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Occupation | Businessman |
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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]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Rui 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 birthday.[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
[edit | edit source]National orders
[edit | edit source]- File:PRT Order of Prince Henry - Grand Cross BAR.svg Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (5 January 2006)[10]
- File:POR Ordem do Merito Industrial Comendador BAR.svg Commander of the Order of Entrepreneurial Merit, Class of Industrial Merit (9 June 1995)[10]
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