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Photo by Luís Pinto, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2011.

Respect. (from the lat. respectu) n. 1. respect; 2. consideration; high regard; 3. deference; compliance; veneration; 4. honour; worship; 5. relation; refererence...

We believe that everyone should be respected for their work, for their attitudes, opinions and options.

Photo by Mila Teshaieva, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2011.

Rigor. (from the lat. rigore) n. 1. harshness; strength; 2.fig., severity; punctuality; accuracy.

There is no "more or less levelled", "more or less upright”, "more or less clean" or "more or less safe", but rather “levelled”, "upright”, "clean” and “safe". The rigour is reflected in our procedures, in time and in the rules to follow. In the light of moral and principles, being severe means being rigorous.

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Passion. (from the lat. passione) n. 1. intense and usually violent feeling (affection, joy, hate, etc.) which hinders the exercise of impartial logic; 2. derived from a feeling; 3. great predilection; 4. partiality; 5. great grief; immense suffering...

Under the sign of passion – a text of the Portuguese poet Regina Guimarães – is our icon. Passion is to reveal great enthusiasm for something, favourable encouragement or opposite to something.
It is the sensibility transmitted by an architect or engineer through work.
Passion is the dedication to a project. Passion is a state of warm soul.

Photo by Jakub Karwowski, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2012.

Loyalty. (from the lat. legalitate) n. the quality of being loyal; fidelity; sincerity.

Respect for the principles and rules that guide the honour and probity. Faithfulness to commitments and agreements undertaken, staunch character.
To remain loyal to the business partners because we depend on them and they depend on us.
Being trustworthy for being loyal.

Photo by Ian Lieske, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2011.

Solidarity. (from the lat. solidare) n. 1. the quality of being solidary; 2. reciprocal responsibility among the members of a group, namely social, professional, etc.; 3. sense of sharing another’s suffering.

Being solidary is being a friend, offering our hand with genuine generosity and bringing joy and human warmth to those who, somehow, are marginalized. Being solidary is being more human. A solidary company is recognized as a fair and non-selfish company. A solidary company is a preferred choice in business. It is a more competitive company. Volunteering is a vehicle to solidarity. It is modern, fair, cultured, friend, it is a noble gesture of moral elevation.

Photo by Clarence Gorton, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2012.

Courage. (from the lat. coraticum) n. 1. bravery facing danger; intrepidity; to have audacity; 2. moral force before a suffering or setback; 3. [fig.] to input energy when performing a difficult task; perseverance...

Courage is essential in our life. Courage to face less pleasant situations when complex issues come up, not expecting random resolutions.
It is a value that we must highlight as opposed to the fearful, cowardly and laziness.
The courage to react to criticism not with an attitude of demotivation or sadness, but rather to search for the means and the action to overcome its own reason. This kind of courage, which is also an intellectual courage, is highly recommended.

Photo by Filipa Alves, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2011.

Ambition. (from the lat. ambitione) n. 1. vehement desire of wealth, honours or glories; 2. expectation about the future; aspiration; 3. lust; greed…

Vehement desire to achieve a particular goal. Ambition not to resign ourselves. Ambition to take the best potential from ourselves. Ambition to deserve ourselves. Ambition to be athletes in our top-level competitive jobs. Ambition to beat our brands. Ambition to get the best deals with the maximum value, due to the high levels of proficiency and efficiency.

Photo by Scarlett Coten, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2011.

Esthetics. ESTHETICS (from the Greek aisthetiké, "sensitive") n.f. 1. Philosophy branch of philosophy that studies the beauty and nature of artistic phenomena; 2. author's own style, time, etc.; 3. harmony of shapes and colors, beauty; 4. set of techniques and treatments that aim to beautify the body.

We decided to build the company's economic foundations under a cultured, cosmopolitan and cool image. Because it is a charming state of being. Good taste because we are sustainable and we respect the planet. Good taste because we are sensitive. Good taste just because.

Photo by Karl Erik Brondbo, finalist of the Emergentes dst Award 2011.

Responsibility. (from the lat respondere) n. the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; a form of trustworthiness.

We must be certain that, before a choice, we chose what is best for both of us and not just the best for each one. Each employee is responsible for his negotiated activity and co-responsible if the co-worker does not fulfil his own task, thus preventing the common goal. A team is a set of individuals - is a whole. In the business game, as in social or family contexts, everyone must comply with their own relative position and we shall not permit that one of ours fails to be in our team.

Noticia GPL 2014
20/06/2014
Armando da Silva Carvalho wins the dst Grand Award for Literature

The poet Armando da Silva Carvalho, with his work “De Amore”, is the winner of the dst Grand Award for Literature, dedicated this year to poetry. The jury, in an unanimous decision, said the poem selected continues and deepens a poetic experience of great density and formal invention, assuming a cultural memory and context, transgression and the feel for questioning and aesthetic renewal. The award, worth 15,000 euros, will be presented on 28 June, in Theatro Circo,  the ceremony coinciding with the opening of the Braga Book Fair, that will occupy the city’s Central Avenue and that will continue until 13 July. “Osso Vaidoso” will give a performance, and there will be special guests, a project by Ana de Deus and Alexandre Soares, that adds music to the poetry of well known poets, harmoniously associating these two art forms that complement and enhance one another.

Armando da Silva Carvalho was born in 1938, in Óbidos. He graduated in Law, attended the course in Philosophy, working later in publications with the Jornal de Letras and the Diário de Notícias, and became known for his translations of world famous writers, such as Samuel Becket, Aimé Cesaire, Jean Genet and Marguerite Duras. His work “Lírica Consumível”, won him the award of the Portuguese Society of Authors (Prémio Revelação da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores), and he began a career dedicated to writing in which poetry brought prosodic discipline to a critical and ironic expression of existence. In his prose, Armando da Silva Carvalho associates ideological investment with the revival of narrative story, using a reflective, subversive and humorous process, questioning national myths. 

This is already the 19th. dst Grand Award for Literature, one of the most important national awards and that has distinguished names such as Jacinto Lucas Pires, Maria Velho da Costa and Francisco Duarte Mangas. The award rotates from one literary form to another, one year distinguishing a book of poetry, published in its first edition in the previous two year period, and the following year, a work of prose, also published in first edition in the preceding two year period.  

For José Teixeira, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the dst Group, this literary award “reinforces the way in which our company intervenes in society in an area that, clearly, lies beyond our core business”, while emphasising that “promoting culture and fine literature is a way of understanding social dynamics better, which inevitably is reflected in the way we conduct our business and how we show the world by undersigning the brand, «building culture»”. He concluded by saying that “Besides the Grand Award for Literature, the dst Group also promotes every year the dst International Emerging Artists - Photography competition and has an art gallery in Braga open to the public, now part of the shair project, a platform for supporting and promoting emerging artists”.