Private-label knitwear producer in Vila Nova de Famalicão (founded 2008) exporting 100% of production, with Denmark, Sweden and Norway among its principal markets via a Copenhagen-based sales representative.
Red Street Têxteis, founded in 2008 in Vila Nova de Famalicão, produces private-label knitwear — roughly 80% womenswear, 20% menswear, worked almost exclusively in circular knits — and exports 100% of its output, with Denmark, Sweden and Norway among its principal markets. The ten-person company keeps product development, patterning, cutting, finishing and packaging in-house, subcontracts sewing to Portuguese partners, and leans on organic cotton, lyocell, modal and wool blends backed by OCS certification and a SMETA ethical-trade audit — credentials that weigh heavily with Scandinavian buyers.
Its Scandinavian anchor is a relationship, not a subsidiary: a Danish agent who has worked with the company since its founding now acts as its salesman in the market. “Today it is as if we had our own office in Denmark, in Copenhagen,” CEO Carlos Cardoso told industry outlet Portugal Têxtil in July 2026. Turnover reached €1.2 million in 2025, down about 17% from an exceptional 2024, and cautious Nordic ordering in early 2026 is pushing the company to diversify beyond the region that built it.
Red Street is a textbook case of how small Portuguese manufacturers actually win Nordic business — not through subsidiaries or trade-fair blitzes, but through one trusted local commercial relationship maintained for nearly two decades, compounded by the sustainability credentials Nordic buyers demand.
In a 16 July 2026 interview with Portugal Têxtil, CEO Carlos Cardoso described slower, more cautious Nordic ordering in 2026 (first-quarter invoicing of about €340,000 against a €400,000 target) and plans to diversify markets — covered by NorthSouth HQ here.
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