our team

• The story of Mercearia Bio began in 2007, as a family project, with Ana and Pedro. From the desire to develop something in a healthy and sustainable area that could contribute to the health of our Family and also yours and the planet, Mercearia Bio was born.
  
  The initial idea was to have organic food products and over the years we have increased the range and added other types of products, from personal hygiene to cosmetics, from cleaning products to sustainable accessories, always adding products with organic certification or ecological and sustainability certifications.
  
  We started purely as an online store with home deliveries in the Algarve region... But we soon realized that many Customers and potential Customers wanted to visit us and so we have decided to open our Companheira warehouse, in Portimão, to the public. In the beginning we had very limited opening hours and only opened a couple of days a week, which we have expanded as time passed by and with the increase in the demand. The arrival of new Colleagues was also important to expand the opening hours of the warehouse.
• We then expanded deliveries from the online store to the entire mainland and islands.
• Pedro Gonçalves

  pedrocgoncalves@merceariabio.pt 961563777

  For you to meet our team, we start by introducing Pedro, Portuense (native from Oporto), partner and founder, with training in hotel management, at the Porto Hotel and Tourism School, and 15 years of professional experience in the area, having lived in England, Brazil and Kazakhstan, and, in Portugal, in various parts of the country, including the Algarve, where he took up residence in 2005. In addition to his regular presence at the Mercearia Bio store front, he has shared responsibility in the area of ​​Marketing and Communication, Human Resources and New Projects, but also supports the online store, warehouse and purchasing. Always with lots of ideas, creativity is one of his strong points, but also with an almost infallible memory for the names of our Customers.

• In 2014 we opened our first physical store, Mercearia Bio Café Portimão, with a mixed and integrated grocery and coffee shop service.
• ANA ANTÓNIO

  financeiro@merceariabio.pt 962414114

  Ana, a native Alfacinha, founder and partner, graduated in economics from the University of Algarve, spent almost 20 years in banking, after which she joined Mercearia Bio as a full-time job. She is responsible for the company's financial and administrative area, but also shares responsibility for the areas of Marketing and Communication, Human Resources and New Projects. Rigor and pragmatism are two of its main characteristics, which help us all to better organize processes and procedures, while maintaining focus on what is essential. Like everyone at Mercearia Bio, she also helps at the front of the store whenever needed.

• NUNO SEQUEIRA

  nunol.sequeira@merceariabio.pt 927420701

  Nuno, from Silves in the Algarve, arrived at Mercearia at a very young age, with some professional experience in distribution. He has been with us since 2009 and is heading towards his 20 th company anniversary. He was a football player for much of his youth and “retired” from football recently, with Fatherhood speaking louder. Team spirit and strategy remained from football: attacking whenever possible, but never neglecting defence. He is responsible for managing the online store and for all purchasing, but also pops in the front of the store and is getting better at the coffee shop tasks. He never says no to a new challenge and project and he is often the one who brings us new ideas and implements them. He is a natural born commercial and I would even go as far as to say that, among all of us, he is the one that receives the most affection from our dear Customers.

• VITOR SANTOS

  vitor.santos@merceariabio.pt 282476686

  Vítor is the “Alvoreiro” with the most Northern pronunciation that we know. He has migrated shortly after birth, to the north, where He lived for more than 40 years, which shaped his accent and, naturally, also his personality. Fishing is his favourite pastime and we can find him at the Alvor pier on weekends, with the rod in hand and fish in the bucket, when the sea is right. At Mercearia Bio, where he has been almost for a decade. He is responsible for the warehouse, receiving goods and supplying the store. He also provides important support to the online store. He is the most senior of all of us!

• In 2014 we opened our first physical store, Mercearia Bio Café Portimão, with a mixed and integrated grocery and coffee shop service.
• ELSA

  Elsa is a woman from the North, based in the Algarve for many years. She spent time in Spain, but returned to the Algarve, more specifically to “Vietnam”, as she likes to call Odiáxere. She arrived with the opening of the Lagos store and that's where she is, serving Customers and preparing the cafeteria specialities. As a northern woman, she is fast and gets straight to the point, both in Portuguese and English. In the customer service, she also gives Portuguese classes to Customers who request it, in a store context, of course. A vocation for surveillance remained unfulfilled... But she ends up implementing this task on the rounds she makes at Mercearia Bio’s coffee shop area.

• SUSANA

  Susana is Alentejana, from Montemor-o-Novo. She has a career in the social area, as a Social Worker, and made a change of professional direction to the area of ​​Graphic Design. She is now responsible for the graphic design of Mercearia Bio.

• In September 2024, after 10 years of operation, we decided to close the Portimão store, thus concentrating our operations in Lagos, where we now have our physical store, warehouse and it is from here that we send all the online orders for our online store.
• EDUARDO

  Eduardo, arrived at Mercearia Bio in October 2024 and is the newest member of the Team and also the youngest, born in 94. He came mainly with a mission to serve our Customers at the Lagos store. He is Brazilian, from the state of Espírito Santo, and has been living in Portugal since 2018.

• Despite the many difficulties we have faced over these years, there have been many more successes and joys that we have had and continue to have. We thus face with confidence and optimism the times that lie ahead towards our twenties, which we will complete in 2027, always with bio as our focus, from our family to yours.