On 18 April it was listed on the Aim (the segment of Borsa Italiana dedicated to SMEs) Antares Vision, a young and innovative company from Brescia which in just a few years (it was founded only 12 years ago) has become an international leader in visual inspection, product tracking and data management systems for the pharmaceutical sector.
This is an interesting enterprise, which is part of the so-called fourth Italian capitalism, which was born as a spin off of the University of Engineering of Brescia by two friends, Emidio Zorzella and Massimo Bonardi, who had the intuition to apply their studies in optoelectronics to industrial production control and management systems, as well as to complete supply chain.
Beyond the certainly important innovative technological aspect, what characterizes the history of Antares Vision and its spectacular development path (turnover is projected towards 150 million with a double-digit Ebitda close to 30% and with customers in over 60 countries in the world) is, on the one hand, the strategic lucidity with which the two founders had the strength to know how to concentrate on the pharmaceutical sector among the countless to which they could have brought their new technology, and on the other the ability who have demonstrated their ability to manage financial instruments for the benefit of company development.
Indeed, for the start of the important development path in 2012 they opened the Company's capital to the Fondo Italiano d'Investimento (at the time chaired by Prof. Marco Vitale) which supported the first step of internationalisation. Subsequently in 2017 the founders bought back the shares of the fund and then again open the capital to industrial partners (including Guido Barilla) and to the market (with the recent listing) to start the second round of development which will see Antares Vision engaged in new markets (food & beverage and cosmetics) and with an evolution of solutions dedicated to the traceability, safety and originality of products, as well as in data management and analysis (Smart Data Management).
A very instructive story founded on a clear entrepreneurial vision, on solid technological foundations, on a great openness to innovation, on creativity, on the valorisation of young talents and on a strong corporate culture which feeds on shared ideas and projects. Basically a significant example of strong corporate values which make the enterprise alive, creative, capable of recreating itself, redefining objectives and programs.
Today Antares Vision has important challenges ahead of it: new products, new markets, new technologies, but above all we believe that the most delicate is to remain faithful to the founding values that have allowed it to achieve significant goals, avoiding the "fatal attraction ” of big finance that too often takes possession of excellent companies, draining them not only of the cash. The goal must always be to “create value” and not “extract value” as we too often hear.
