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Top 21 Industry associations based in Portugal
RevenueBase identified 53 industry associations headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026 and tracks 351 professional contacts across them, including 69 with verified work emails. Lisboa is the largest hub.
This list covers industry associations headquartered in Portugal, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
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The 21 largest industry associations based in Portugal
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A APEB é a associação empresarial do setor do Betão Pronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A APHORT - Associação Portuguesa de Hotelaria, Restauração e Turismo é a associação nacional que representa os empresários do setor da hotelaria, restauração e turismo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A ABIMOTA - Associação Nacional das Indústrias de Duas Rodas, Ferragens, Mobiliário e serviços complementares aos setores é uma entidade sem fins lucrativos, fundada em 1975 e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A “ATP - Associação Têxtil e Vestuário de Portugal” é uma Associação Patronal, de âmbito nacional, que agrupa cerca de 500 empresas, as quais asseguram cerca de 35 mil postos de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A IDSET é uma associação empresarial sem fins lucrativos constituída ao abrigo da lei civil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos a Associação Portuguesa de Empresas de Distribuição (APED).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A ANAI é uma associação profissional independente e sem fins lucrativos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AICCOPN, Associação dos Industriais de Construção Civil e Obras Públicas (Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industrialists), which is national in scope, is…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Representative of the Portuguese furniture and decoration industry before the national and international institutions (either governmental and private ones).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AORP - Portuguese Jewellery and Watchmaking Association is a national association of companies that represents the sector of goldsmithing and watchmaking, covering its various…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Promotion of the technological and business development of the sector, as well as a qualitative improvement of its organisation and production; • Dynamization of the participation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Associação Portuguesa dos Comerciantes de Materiais de Construção é a entidade que representa, no nosso país, o setor do comércio de materiais de construção.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A ANIVEC/APIV assegura aos seus associados a defesa dos interesses do sector do Vestuário e Moda, potenciando o efeito das economias de escala que o factor associação proporciona…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O FAE é uma associação sem fins lucrativos que visa o desenvolvimento, a formação e o aperfeiçoamento da gestão das empresas e a valorização científica e técnica dos seus…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A CENTROMARCA – ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DE EMPRESAS DE PRODUTOS DE MARCA – foi fundada em Junho de 1994 por um grupo de 24 empresas detentoras de produtos de MARCA, de vários…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “APPC is a non-profit Business Association, created in January 1975, which represents the Engineering, Architecture, Environment, Economics and Management Studies and Projects…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a non-profit Association with a national scope and transversal to all sectors of activity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) potencia as indústrias de media e marketing para prosperar na economia digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “APR's mission is to develop the international competitiveness of the Portuguese Residential Tourism sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A AES é uma associação de empregadores, fundada em 1990, com o objetivo de promover, entre os associados e ao nível de todo o setor da Segurança Privada, princípios de deontologia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Juntos Seremos Empresas de Sucesso!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: industry associations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names industry associations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industry associations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industry associations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Industry associations based in Portugal at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Portugal, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Portugal, over 53 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among industry associations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Portugal whose own description of what they do matches “industry associations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names industry associations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among industry associations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Portugal are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 69 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names industry associations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many industry associations are there based in Portugal?
RevenueBase identified 53 industry associations headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
APEB, headquartered in Portugal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most industry associations?
Lisboa leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by Porto (8) and Agueda (1).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 69 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 53 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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