Garrafeira Scorpio, a beverage company owner of the brands Neto Costa and Big Boss Gin, has just launched a new website and an online store with the aim of boosting its presence in the eCommerce format. “This project, which was being designed for some time, ended up being catalyzed by the current situation and the high increase in demand for our products through digital media”, says the company in a statement. In a publication on its page on the social network Facebook, the company also states that the launch of the site is “a necessary step to keep up with the new needs of the market and consumers”.
In the beverage market since 1992, when Américo Leal inaugurated the Solar da Cepa wine cellar, C represents the growth of the company, which became a public limited company under that name in 1998.
In the first year, it started from “a turnover of around one million euros in the start-up year, to a current turnover of around five million euros”, as can be read on the company’s website.
In 2008, the acquisition of the Neto Costa brand, gives Scorpio a market-leading position in relation to a very wide range of products, including ‘Tijuana’, ‘Amendoa Amarga’, ‘Absinto’ and ‘Tríplice Seco’ among others, with several Gold and Silver medals won in International competitions, “which allows Scorpio to make a strong investment in the expansion of these products in the national market where they are already well known, but and especially the international market where their growth is huge”, as it is also mentioned in the company’s presentation on the website.
In November 2011 the company opened a new wine cellar. The store has a range of about three thousand references among still, sparkling and distilled wines, in addition to some gourmet products, such as olive oils, cheeses and sausages. Port wine is in the spotlight, with a collection that covers more than a century of harvest dates.
The new website and online store are the necessary steps to make the portfolio online and available to a new and vast public, whose consumption habits pass through the digital medium.
Scorpio is currently representative of more than 15 producers and markets a collection of Port wines, Cognacs and Armagnacs, among which the famous ‘Pêra Manca’, ‘Mouchão’ ‘Tonel’ or ‘Quinta do Vale Meão’.
At this moment, Scorpio is configured as one of the largest national companies in the beverage distribution business, being, since 2008, ‘SME Leader’. “All of this was possible because I always found customers who became our friends, trusted the quality of the service and gave suggestions”, stresses Américo Leal.