Paulo de Oliveira, S.A. (NIF 500213348) is a vertically integrated wool-fabric mill in Covilhã, founded in 1936. It has about 550 employees and produces more than 7.5 million square metres of fabric a year. Swedish menswear house Oscar Jacobson publishes a supplier portrait of the mill and says its fabrics are an important part of both its spring and autumn collections.
Racius lists Paulo de Oliveira, S.A. (NIF 500213348) at Quinta das Mineiras, Boidobra, 6200-275 Covilhã, with share capital of €2.5 million. Its registered activity is weaving of wool-type yarn (CAE 13202), and accounts are filed from 2006 to 2024. The mill was founded in 1936 in Covilhã, the historic wool town of the Serra da Estrela. It is vertically integrated, so wool fibre, mostly Australian merino, is spun, woven, dyed and finished on the same site. Its namesake, the industrialist Paulo de Oliveira, died in August 2022 (1937–2022; ECO, Público).
Swedish menswear brand Oscar Jacobson publishes a dedicated Oscar Jacobson supplier portrait of the mill. The portrait describes Paulo de Oliveira as one of Europe’s largest wool-fabric producers, with about 550 employees making more than 7.5 million square metres of fabric a year, and as a world leader in wool-elastane stretch fabrics. It also notes more than 21,000 solar panels across the factories, an in-house water-treatment plant, and work with the University of Beira Interior on water reuse. Fabrics meet the Responsible Wool Standard, Organic Content Standard and Global Recycled Standard. Collection manager Carl-Johan Frisk is quoted as saying the fabrics are an important part of both Oscar Jacobson’s spring and autumn collections. Miguel Oliveira, director of the Paulo Oliveira Group, is also quoted in the portrait.
In July 2025, Galp and Paulo de Oliveira announced a solar energy community in Covilhã intended to benefit about 1,200 households and businesses (Fleet Magazine, 4 July 2025). In April 2025 the textile union held a protest at the factory gate (Rádio Clube da Covilhã, 14 April 2025).
Scandinavian tailoring brands usually name Italian and British mills as their cloth suppliers. Oscar Jacobson’s choice to profile a Covilhã mill alongside them is a named, public sign that Portuguese worsted and stretch-wool fabric competes at that level. Wool fabric is also less visible in the corridor than Portuguese garment-making. For Nordic menswear and uniform buyers, Paulo de Oliveira is a scaled, certified mill with a Swedish reference customer already on record.
Sources: Oscar Jacobson supplier portrait; Racius and nif.pt (NIF 500213348); ECO and Público (30 August 2022); Fleet Magazine (4 July 2025). Fetched 11 November 2026.
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