Newspaper 20 years — Vector Mais

To end the year of the celebration of Vector Mais’ 20th anniversary, we launched a newspaper with 20 stories that summarize the company's path since its foundation in 2000. In addition to the history of the creation of the company (featured below) and the importance of our team, the publication also includes the most recent projects, customer testimonials, and many other topics.

If you want to read the digital version of the newspaper, you can download it here:
Newspaper 20 years, 20 stories

The Foundation

Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2020, Vector Mais, founded by Duarte Aires and Sandro Marques, was founded with the intention of offering an innovative service. “The multinationals were looking for a company in Portugal that would offer an integrated service: from budgeting and project preparation, to building work and supplying the furniture. They wanted a company to do a quality turnkey project and this is where we were different”, says Sandro Marques. The founders’ know-how in these two areas allied to the opportunity that they had identified in the market, meant that the company rapidly became a benchmark in its first years of activity. He remembers Vector Mais’ first big project from those times: The Oracle headquarters in Lagoas Park, but also the offices of Refer, Renault-Nissan, the Portuguese Institute of Insurance (Instituto Português de Seguros) and Nova Base.

A collaboration that began as a friendship and working relationship turned into a project for life. “We met in 1997 when I was working at the furniture manufacturer Steelcase and Sandro was the technical and sales manager at a company that did interior fit-outs,” recalls Duarte Aires, CEO of Vector Mais. Over the past 20 years, the two founders have never trusted their success to luck, and not ones for resting on their laurels, continued to seek out fresh opportunities. While Duarte Aires remained at the helm of the company, Sandro Marques embraced other projects inside the group Higher to which Vector Mais belongs. First as CEO of Making Place in Angola to 2018, and now as CEO of Bamer, a manufacturer of partitions and woodwork which is a benchmark on the Iberian Peninsula in its area.

For Duarte Aires and Sandro Marques, “these 20 years are worth celebrating for the legacy we've built and the magnificent people we’ve known, we are grateful at Vector Mais to all our clients, suppliers and staff.”