Claudifel – Indústria de Calçado, Lda (NIF 504282689) is a family-run leather shoe factory in Lagares, Felgueiras, whose origins go back to 1987 and which was incorporated as a limited company in January 1999. It mainly makes men’s shoes, says it employs about 250 people, and is named by Denmark’s BESTSELLER as a main cut-to-pack footwear factory in its October 2026 public factory list.
Racius lists Claudifel – Indústria de Calçado, Lda (NIF 504282689) as a private limited company in Lagares, Felgueiras, with share capital of €99,760. Its main activity is leather footwear manufacture and its secondary code is footwear retail. According to the company’s history page, its origins go back to 1987, when António Manuel Morais Melo da Cunha started trading as a sole proprietor, serving the domestic market at first. In January 1999 the family incorporated Claudifel – Indústria de Calçado, Lda, with António, Vítor and Maria Amélia Morais Melo da Cunha as partner-managers, and built the plant it uses today. Claudifel says it has an average of about 250 permanent staff and around 5,000 m² of facilities roughly 50 km from Porto. It specialises in leather men’s shoes, also makes women’s and children’s footwear, and names Europe and the United States as its main export markets. Its environmental management system is certified to ISO 14001:2015.
Danish fashion group BESTSELLER, owner of Jack & Jones, Only, Vero Moda and Name It, lists Claudifel as both supplier and factory in its October 2026 public factory list, classified as a main cut-to-pack unit for footwear. The list puts the factory in the 1–1,000 employee band, with a workforce that is 55% women and 45% men.
Felgueiras is the centre of Portugal’s leather-shoe cluster, and BESTSELLER is one of the largest fashion buyers in the Nordics. A family factory of about 250 people that BESTSELLER names as a main production unit shows that Danish volume fashion, and not only premium brands, buys finished footwear from the Tâmega e Sousa region. It is the kind of supply link that public factory disclosures now make visible.
Sources: BESTSELLER public factory list (October 2026, xlsx); Racius and nif.pt (NIF 504282689); Claudifel – history and company website. Fetched 10 November 2026.
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