Sousa Cintra

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Sousa Cintra

Sousa Cintra, full name José Sousa Cintra, is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
businessman, born in the village of Raposeira, Vila do Bispo

Vila do Bispo

Vila do Bispo is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 179.0 km? and a total population of 5,381 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of 5 parishes, and is located in the District of Faro ....
municipality, in the Algarve

Algarve

The Algarve is the southernmost region of mainland Portugal Portugal. It has an area of 5,412 square kilometres with approximately 410,000 permanent inhabitants, and incorporates 16 municipalities....
region.

He worked as a snail

Snail

The word snail is a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled animal shells in the adult stage. When the word snail is used in a general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails....
trader in his village, and with 15 years old he went to Lisbon where he got a job in Hotel Tivoli as an elevator operator

Elevator operator

An elevator operator is a person specifically employed to operate a manually operated elevator. Besides their training in operation and safety, department stores extended the roles of operators as combination greeters and tour guides, announcing products, floor-by-floor, and occasional sales....
. During these times he earned a larger amount of money selling watercolor painting

Watercolor painting

Watercolor or Watercolour is a painting method. A watercolor is the Processing medium or the resulting Work of art, in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle....
s in parallel with his job at the hotel. With 16 years old he joined the Portuguese Navy

Portuguese Navy

The Portuguese Navy is the Navy of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the military defence of Portugal....
for 4 years.

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Sousa Cintra, full name José Sousa Cintra, is a Portuguese

Portugal

Vila do Bispo

Algarve

Snail

Elevator operator

Watercolor painting

Portuguese Navy

Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril, was a left-leaning military coup started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarianism dictatorship to a democracy after two years of a transitional period known as PREC , characterized by social turmoil and...
of 1974, Cintra saw a number of his assets expropriated but he eventually acquiered Águas Vidago, a mineral water

Mineral water

Mineral water is water containing minerals or other dissolved substances that alter its taste or give it therapeutic value. Salts, sulfur compounds, and gases are among the substances that can be dissolved in the water....
company. Between 1989 and 1995, Sousa Cintra was the chairman of Sporting Clube de Portugal

Sporting Clube de Portugal

Sporting Clube de Portugal...
and reached a huge popularity in this capacity, as well as a successful businessperson.

In 1998 he bought a beer

Beer

Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and Fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal?the most common of which is malted barley, although wheat, maize , and rice are widely used....
factory in São Paulo

São Paulo

S?o Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, and along with Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City is among the four largest metropolitan regions of the world....
and shortly after he built another in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , is the second largest city of Brazil and South America, behind S?o Paulo, and the third largest metropolitan area in South America, behind S?o Paulo and Buenos Aires....
, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
. His beer business in Brazil reached the break even point and was ranked number 4 in a short span of time. In 2002 he invested in a new beer factory in Santarém

Santarém

There are a number of places called Santar?m:...
, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
in order to produce and sell Cintra beer in his home country. Due to the strong competition and the power of well-established beer brands in the Portuguese market (Super Bock

Super Bock

Super Bock is a Portuguese brand of strong pale lager from the Unicer brewery which produces a range of beers under the same name. Established in 1927, Unicer is based in Le?a do Balio, just outside the city of Porto, Portugal....
and Sagres

Sagres (beer)

Sagres beers are brewed by the SCC - Sociedade Central de Cervejas e Bebidas, S.A. and were introduced at the 1940 ?Exposi??o do Mundo Portugu?s? ....
), Sousa Cintra sold out his Portuguese Cintra beer business, remaining only with the successful Brazilian activities.