Company
The Lugrade – Bacalhau de Coimbra SA is a P.M.E. family business that started in 1987. Since that time, the strategy of growth of the resident firm fundamentally in the conquest of the market, betting on the commercialization of quality products, making known a “LUGRADE” brand through its own packaging.
In the period between 1987 and 1998, the Lugrade only carried out the commercial activity, in a small warehouse with 300 m2 located in the city of Coimbra. In an attempt to gain more physical space and promote its activity in the industry – salting and drying of cod – in September 1998 it promotes the changement of seedlings to the outskirts of the city, in the Industrial Park of Taveiro, for an industrial warehouse with a total covered area of 1.800 m2. It was in 2006 that the activity is not necessary and with the steady growth of its turnover, there is a new need for expansion of the space with a view to providing as current with a logistics distribution platform, allowing an expansion of the covered area of 700 m2, The current 2,500 m2.
In 2014 begins a project for an expansion of the existing unit and creation of a new unit of own production of deep-frozen cod. It started production in 2016.
Lugrade is currently a dynamic structure that adapts to the challenges of market evolution, incorporating the teachings inherited from tradition and the experience of years of life without Cod World.
In the period between 1987 and 1998, the Lugrade only carried out the commercial activity, in a small warehouse with 300 m2 located in the city of Coimbra. In an attempt to gain more physical space and promote its activity in the industry – salting and drying of cod – in September 1998 it promotes the changement of seedlings to the outskirts of the city, in the Industrial Park of Taveiro, for an industrial warehouse with a total covered area of 1.800 m2. It was in 2006 that the activity is not necessary and with the steady growth of its turnover, there is a new need for expansion of the space with a view to providing as current with a logistics distribution platform, allowing an expansion of the covered area of 700 m2, The current 2,500 m2.
In 2014 begins a project for an expansion of the existing unit and creation of a new unit of own production of deep-frozen cod. It started production in 2016.
Lugrade is currently a dynamic structure that adapts to the challenges of market evolution, incorporating the teachings inherited from tradition and the experience of years of life without Cod World.