Delfim Ferreira (1888-1960) was an important Portuguese entrepreneur, born in the town of Riba d'Ave,
Vila Nova de Famalição. He was the son of the great Portuguese industrial
Narciso Ferreira
Narciso Ferreira (1862-1933) was a Portuguese entrepreneur in the north of Portugal ( Riba d’Ave, in Vila Nova de Famalição).
Biography
He was the son of a farmers family. Since his father died when he was very young, his mother gave him ...
, who, from a small manual mill, built the largest textile enterprise that existed in Portugal in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Educated at the Royal and Imperial School of Reichenberg, Delfim Ferreira, in the 1940s, intended to build a commercial shopping mall in
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
. Delfim Ferreira expanded their business to other economic sectors, including the hydroelectric power and the civil construction, contributing to the development of
Vale do Ave and providing employment to many thousands of workers.
He was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Order of Industrial Merit, the Military Order of Christ, the Great Officership of the Order of Industrial Merit and the Golden Medal of the city of Vila do Conde. When he died in 1960, Delfim Ferreira was considered to be the richest man in Portugal.
Predial Ferreira & Filhos Website.
External links
Diário de Notícias Journal, Website Correio do Minho Journal, Website
References
People from Vila Nova de Famalicão
20th-century Portuguese businesspeople
1888 births
1960 deaths
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