Mercadona is a Spanish family supermarket company that develops its activity in Portugal as a Portuguese enterprise, headquartered in Vila Nova de Gaia, in the Porto district. By the end of 2021, it had 29 stores in Porto, Braga, Aveiro and Viana do Castelo, and plans to open 10 more throughout 2022. Mercadona aims to offer its customers the best solutions, with supreme quality, in food and beverages, personal care, housekeeping and pet care. Mercadona relies on the best talent: a team of 95,800 people (2,500 based in Portugal), highly committed, who share the company’s business Model and a passion for service excellence. To make it possible, it has a distinctive and pioneering Human Resources Policy in the sector, characterized by offering quality and stable employment, with permanent contracts from the first day, continuous training plans, internal promotion, among other values. Mercadona’s Model is an innovative, shared and sustainable growing project that aims to satisfy, in this order and with the same level of importance, the 5 components of the company: “The Boss” (customer), The Employee, The Supplier, Society and Capital.