Where tradition meets innovation
Welcome to Magalhães Heritage, your gateway to Portugal's renowned footwear manufacturing. We connect international brands with the country's finest craftsmanship, premium materials, and sustainable practices. Discover how we can bring your footwear vision to life.
ABOUT US
With years of experience as a footwear agent and technician, José Magalhães leads Magalhães Heritage in representing brands seeking product development and manufacturing in Portugal. We focus on high-end men's and women's shoes and boots, ensuring quality and craftsmanship in every pair.
Our dedicated team brings decades of experience in product development, daily production management, and ensuring efficient, on-time delivery—direct to retailers or distribution hubs.
Experience and integrity define us.
Our services
Connecting brands with the finest Portuguese manufacturers, overseeing production, quality control, and logistics.
The ability to produce everything from luxury dress shoes to high-performance sneakers.
What we actually do for our client brands:
Factory sourcing & vetting (technical capability, MOQ flexibility, sustainability level)
Price negotiation & complete cost transparency.
Product development support (pattern making, material sourcing, prototyping)
Quality control at every stage (from raw material to final packing)
Logistics coordination & customs clearance
Ongoing collection follow-up season after season
We pride ourselves on our adaptability and commitment to excellence in every aspect of our service .
We prioritize quality over quantity, less over more.
We accept only a limited number of brands so that each one receives the personal attention of José and is team.
Manufacturing
Our team have extensive knowledge of Portugal’s premium footwear cluster and maintain long-standing relationships with the best high-quality factories in São João da Madeira, Santa Maria da Feira, Felgueiras, and Guimarães.
This allows Magalhães Heritage to offer complete end-to-end support: from initial concept and pattern engineering through sample development, fitting corrections, cost optimization, and full-scale production with weekly progress updates and on-site quality monitoring.
Why Portugal? Because very few places in the world can match what we offer:
Artisans who still hand-last shoes the traditional way.
With over 30 years of hands-on experience in premium footwear, along side the factories we possess comprehensive expertise across the entire production including multiple construction methods:
California/Goodyear Welt
Blake / Blake Rapid
Pratik/Tubular and sack moccasins
Strobel/San Crispino
Flat cemented / direct injection
We and our manufacturing partners are fully proficient in the leading CAD systems used in the industry.
It all comes down to the product's intrinsic value: what truly matters is what’s inside.
That’s why we apply high monitoring standards not only to the final product, but to every material that goes into it and to every step of its manufacturing process to ensure high brand standard unique product.
Crafting legacies
In a world obsessed with speed and scale, craftsmanship is quiet rebellion. Slowness is virtue, “good enough” is blasphemy.
There’s a Japanese word, teboso,the deliberate imperfection —the slight asymmetry or irregularity left in something handmade on purpose, so it doesn’t look machine-made. It’s not a flaw; it’s the soul showing through.
Handmade things aren’t just objects; they’re a vote for a human life measured in care, not output.
Perfectly imperfect. Unmistakably alive.
Contact us
Santa Maria da Feira
Portugal
info@magalhaes-heritage.com