Growth and Development

Karsten Langer

Partner – Riverside Company Europe (shareholder of EUROMED)

Antonio facilitated the development of the strategic plan, documenting a very clear and comprehensive plan involving international sales expansion, product portfolio development, innovation and significant additions to the team. His work fostered early alignment of objectives and provided a very clear roadmap for management.

Xavier Roig

CEO – EUROMED

After the acquisition of the company by Riverside, António involvement was fundamental to define our business plan. The Management Team did an intensive follow-up and met all the levers defined; sales, marketing, R&D, production, operation costs, working capital, and management effectiveness in terms of organization, performance & reward as well as compliance and ESG policy. A lot and intensive work well done. At the end, we achieved in 3 years what was believed to take 5 years.

Khair Mirza

Senior General Manager – Malaysia Airports Holdings

When we were looking at expanding into Portugal, when it was announced the privatisation of ANA, we worked together with António Vieira da Silva and Business Setting. Despite our final decision of not participating in the bidding, it is important to say that the support, in preparing the complete analysis of the opportunity, as well as in managing the process for contacting the relevant stakeholders, was excellent.

Dr. Robert-Jan Vreeburg

CEO & Owner – HedoN Electronic Developments

Our participation in the programme INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS helped our company to get a clearer view on our international development strategy, and also delivered a clear action plan. The implementation proved that the project was an important first step towards achieving new growth opportunities.

Saliya Selwahewa

CEO – Hirdaramani Group – Knit Cluster Sri Lanka

Crafting a performance driven culture based on systems, process and knowledge, driven with an entrepreneurial spirit was the key challenge when I took over a company as the CEO. Antonio from Business Setting was an instrumental and key pillar in making that change by grooming, coaching and sharing best management practices in my organization. He was able to create a brilliant team with amazing motivation and talent to unlock potential which has finally given incredible results over a period of one year which was helped to build a sustainable organization.

Board of the Group Hirdaramani

Knit Cluster Sri Lanka

The Hirdaramani Group took the decision of merging two companies of its knit cluster in Sri Lanka. As it is normal in this type of situations, Strategic, Organisational, Operational and Cultural challenges had to be addressed.
António Vieira da Silva and Business Setting came to help us to make it one business, one organisation, one culture.
Through a Transformation Programme they helped us transforming the way we were working together, whilst improving our results.

Jorge Borges Araújo

CEO – Smartwatt

O trabalho desenvolvido pela Business Setting, foi determinante para a reestruturação da estratégia da empresa e para o sucesso na sua implementação. A experiência e profissionalismo demonstrado foi fundamental para se iniciar um processo célere e consistente com o mercado onde e empresa se insere. Foi particularmente importante o apoio na reorganização dos serviços e produtos, tendo resultado numa maior penetração no mercado, bem como a uma maior aceitação dos mesmos pelos nossos clientes.

Ricardo Couto

CEO e Administrador – Bxpress

A Business Setting desempenhou um papel fundamental na concepção e implementação do projecto Bxpress nas suas múltiplas dimensões. Desde o desenho do conceito, passando pela definição de imagem, posicionamento estratégico, soluções técnicas e operacionais, até à concretização de parcerias e operacionalização do modelo de negócio, a Business Setting entregou uma solução integrada de valor acrescentado e acompanhou eficazmente a implementação do projecto.

Shrihan Perera

CEO – Brandix Intimate Apparel – Sri Lanka

Brandix Intimate Apparel is one of the garment manufacturing clusters of the Brandix Group. We worked with Antonio from 2011 till 2014. The engagement involved a transformation program, focusing on our way of working and on the development of our leadership teams. During the engagement we found Antonio and his team very responsive to our needs and adapted the programs to suit the local culture. He was able to fit in very well with the culture within the organisation and relate to all levels of the executive cadre. Our engagement was very successful and during this period the Great Place To Work index rose from 52% to 81% and the work developed was instrumental in bridging some of the gaps that existed in the organisation.

Arjuna Sirinanda

CEO – Fortude – Sri Lanka

When we were given de challenge by the shareholders of creating a global top IT solutions company, Antonio’s strategy and leadership workshops helped us to validate our business model, our brand positioning, and with the development of our organisation and leadership. The work done and spirit created help us to set foundations of what we are today.