The President of the Republic, Dr. Jorge Sampaio will fit its Excellency to inaugurate in the next 22nd of June the recently built Museum of the Hat store.
Fruit of an arduous work and cooperation of several people, entities and companies, the Museum intends besides other actividades, to preserve, to conserve and to publish the unique history of the hat industry.

Viarco, enthusiastic partner of the project since the 1st moment for the fact of 85 years of envolvement in this area, is congratulated of seeing concluded one more stage in the preservation of the collective memory of the region and of the Country.

- published on 21st June, 2005

                                             

It will be inaugurated on 18th June at 16h00 the exhibition "To Arrive I Walked in the Clouds", of Diana Costa in the Sopro Galery in Lisbon.
Licensed by University of Fine Arts of Porto and with Master's degree in Painting by University of Wimbledon in England, Diana Costa with 25 years bill already in her curriculum several exhibitions.

It is with great pleasure that Viarco supports this initiative and wishes the largest success to the painter.

The exhibition will be patent until 23rd of July 2005. More information in www.sopro.pt
- published on 16th June, 2005

                                             

The first serie of Noddy´s Pencils manufactured by Viarco drained in the end of the 1st week, not arriving to satisfy all the requests.
For the school campaign they are already to be produced reinforcements to do face to the orders that continue to arrive to the company.

See the new 'Jornal Público' 11th of June
See the new 'O Regional' 26th of May

- published on 11th June, 2005

                                             

Viarco turns public that is in execution in the company a Project co-financed by European Social Fund and Portuguese State.
Axis 2 - Typology of project 2.2.2 Organizational development.

- published on 7th June, 2005

                                             

It is with great satisfaction that we informed that Noddy joined Viarco team. Fruit of this partnership was developed a new colored pencil range and wax of great quality with the nice puppet, that will certainly give more color and happiness to Portugal.

Mais information will be published soon.

- published on 4th April, 2005

                                             

Inserted in the extent of the continued formation plan a group of 16 teachers of EVT of Sobreira visited Viarco in the past month of March.
During the visit they learned the productive process of one of their main work instruments, the pencil, as well the whole cultural project, social and business of Viarco.
To evaluate for the reactions in the place and for the messages sent later to e-mail the visit was a success.

- published on 4th April, 2005

                                             

The City hall of S. João da Madeira in partnership with Experimenta Design threw a new caption project and promotion of new talents in Portugal.

The contest that becomes separated in 9 categories (Pencil Draw, Photography, Shoe Design, Clothing, Of the Feet to the Head, Music, Jewellery, New applications to the Felt, Design and Multimedia) counts in its organization as high-commissary the stylist Miguel Vieira.

In the continuation of its support politics and cultural popularisation, Viarco, associates to this event in the Pencil Draw category, inviting all the creative of our country to participate in this challenge.

More information and regulation of participation in www.cm-sjm.pt
- published on 11th January, 2005

                                             

In the continuation of a lot of requests to the company in the sense of giving up information on the process of manufacturing of the pencil, Viarco makes available starting from today all the steps of the productive process of this instrument so matter.

See in the Didactic link.

- published on 30th November, 2004

                                             

In the end of the month of October Viarco received the visit of the entertaining puppets of the Company of Puppet Show “Beto-Hinça."

The objective was to record a video-clip of the CD “The Guris”, a mixed project of infantile music and Puppet Show, that should be introduced to the public in the next February.

The collaboration between Viarco and the creative Company of Theatre is already going in their 3rd year, and the company wishes them the largest success for their new project.

For more information to visit the website www.chicolua.net.
- published on 17th November, 2004

                                             

VIARCO - THE PENCILS OF THE PRESIDENCY

On the comming 5th October, the Presidency of the Republic Museum will be inaugurated.

VIARCO ON CHANNEL

Last 21st September, a report about Viarco was transmitted in the programme called “Quiosque”.

The journalist Tânia Lobo and the image reporter Paulo Santos, from channel 2 of RTP (Portuguese National Television), came to our company to learn how a pencil is made in order to show the young people, who are back to school, the production process of one of the most symbolical school instruments.