What Lasa Group does

Lasa Group is a privately held Portuguese textile manufacturer headquartered in Guimarães, founded in 1971 by Armando da Silva Antunes. The company provides an integrated portfolio of textile services spanning clothing preparation, weaving, yarn, dyeing, embroidery, and packaging — indicating a vertically integrated value chain rather than a single-process operator.

The firm operates as a mid-sized industrial business with 501-1000 employees, a scale that places it among the larger textile converters in Portugal's northern manufacturing cluster around Guimarães. Its service breadth (yarn production through finished packaging) suggests it serves apparel brands and other textile buyers that require multi-step processing from a single supplier, though the input data does not name specific customers, end markets, or geographic footprints.

The available commercial and digital footprint is minimal: no revenue, pricing, customer, or product detail is disclosed, and the corporate web property (lasanet.pt) is currently exposed as a bare server directory index with no marketing, product, or governance content. Ownership, subsidiary structure, leadership beyond the founder, and any recent capital, M&A, or partnership activity are not present in the source material.

Name

Lasa Group

Website

https://lasanet.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

1971

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Lasa Group is a privately held Portuguese textile manufacturer, founded in 1971 in Guimarães, that provides integrated apparel supply-chain services including clothing preparation, weaving, yarn, dyeing, embroidery, and packaging, serving apparel and textile buyers with 501-1000 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Manufacturing

NAICS

Textile Product Mills (314), Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills (31311), Apparel Manufacturing (315)

SIC

Broadwoven Fabric Mills, Man Made Fiber & Silk (2221), Apparel & Other Finishd Prods Of Fabrics & Similar Matl (2300)

akta.pro primary industry

Finishing & Dyeing Contract Services (Job Work/Toll Processing) (IMAOACAL)

Keywords

• Textile manufacturing
• Yarn production
• Fabric weaving
• Garment dyeing
• Embroidery services

Headquarters

HQ city

Guimarães

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Lasa Group is a Portuguese textile company that provides clothing preparation, weaving, yarn, dyeing, embroidery, and packaging services. The company operates as an integrated textile manufacturer offering end-to-end production capabilities for apparel buyers from its base in Guimarães, Portugal, with 501-1000 employees and operations dating to 1971.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clothing preparation services Contract clothing preparation services for apparel buyers, covering pre-production garment and fabric handling as part of an integrated textile workflow.
• Weaving services Fabric weaving services producing woven textiles for apparel and garment manufacturers.
• Yarn production Yarn manufacturing and supply for textile buyers needing raw or processed yarn inputs.
• Fabric dyeing services Contract fabric dyeing services applying color finishes to woven or knitted textiles for apparel manufacturers.
• Embroidery services Contract embroidery services adding decorative stitching, logos, or patterns to garments and textile products.
• Packaging services Packaging services for finished textile and apparel products as the final step in the integrated production chain.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Riopele: Portuguese vertically integrated textile manufacturer based near Guimarães offering yarn, weaving, dyeing, and finished fabrics — directly comparable to Lasa in geography, services, and customer base (European apparel brands).
• Tecidos de Fafe: Northern Portuguese weaving and finishing group serving European apparel customers. Comparable to Lasa in mid-tier scale, regional textile cluster location, and woven-fabric finishing focus.
• Paulo de Oliveira (Fiandeira): Portuguese yarn and weaving producer operating in the same northern textile corridor. Comparable vertical scope (yarn + weaving) and Iberian apparel customer overlap.

Broad incumbents

• Albini Group: Italian established textile group producing shirting and high-end woven fabrics with in-house yarn, dyeing, and finishing. Comparable vertically integrated model and premium European brand customer base, though at larger scale.
• Marzotto Group: Historic Italian broadwoven fabric and yarn producer with wool and worsted operations. Comparable in weaving and yarn production, with broader global footprint and more diversified end markets than Lasa.

Regional players

• Südwolle Group: German yarn spinning and wool-processing group serving European apparel manufacturers. Comparable as a European yarn supplier competing in similar customer segments, but geographically distinct from Lasa's Iberian base.
• Yünsa: Turkish worsted yarn and woven fabric producer serving global apparel brands. Comparable vertically integrated yarn-to-fabric model, but operating from a lower-cost geography that competes directly on price with Iberian producers like Lasa.

Emerging players

• Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua: Italian specialty weaving and finishing house serving luxury and high-end fashion. Comparable in weaving and finishing capabilities though focused on a premium niche versus Lasa's broader mid-market positioning.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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