The aim of this paper is to undertake a comparative analysis of the particular features of the foreign trade in cork … occurred in the foreign trade in cork products from the two countries. This analysis highlights the Spanish loss of leadership … in the area of cork exports, which passed to Portuguese producers after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Next we …

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish cork industry lost its hegemonic position to Portugal in … the world market of manufactured cork. In this work we intend to demonstrate that one of the most important explanations … for the consolidation of Portuguese leadership in the cork business lies in the formation and development of the …

a long run analysis (of more than one century) of two firms which operate in the cork business in Spain and Portugal … – Corticeira Amorim – became, and still is, the leading firm worldwide in the cork industry. A detailed comparison of these two …, as they both ended up becoming the leading firms in the cork business, although at different periods of time. Thirdly …

in the cork business: raw cork, corkwood in planks and stoppers of natural cork. Given that prices of these products are … different tests of coherence and credibility, Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher’s indexes and a “synthetic cork deflator” are …

companies acting in the cork business in Spain and Portugal: Mundet and Amorim&Irmãos. One of these companies - Mundet - has … been closed in the 1980s and the other - Amorim&Irmãos ? became, and is by now, the leading company in the cork worldwide … so both faced similar national and international constraints but in the end both became leading firms in the cork …