Federico Terenzi is the new President of the Association of Young Italian Wine Entrepreneurs (AGIVI), the organization founded in 1989 to affirm the role of the new generation of wine entrepreneurs, who are now at the helm of some of the most important Italian companies. Milanese, thirty-eight years old, Terenzi took over the leadership of the family business born in 2001 following the transformation of the estate in Maremma into a winery. The company has revealed itself in a short time as a spearhead in the production of Morellino di Scansano and a point of reference for Maremmana enology, earning numerous awards including in 2012 the title of "Emerging Winery of the Year" from Red shrimp.
Terenzi will be joined by the Vice Presidents Francesca Argiolas (Argiolas), Stefano Ricagno (Ca'dei Mandorli and Cuvage), Violante Gardini (Cinelli Colombini), Silvia Franco (Nino Franco). The new Board of Directors is composed as follows: Giulia Alleva (Tenute Santa Caterina), Gianluca Garofoli (Garofoli), Enrico Gobino (MGM and Cuvage), Ernesto Rocca (Rocca), Emanuela Tamburini (Az. Agricola Tamburini), Marzia Varvaglione ( Varvaglione).
Among the fundamental points of the program for the next three years is the will to further increase the bond and exchanges with the UIV (Unione Italiani Vini), collaborating on the topics pursued by the Seniors' Association, such as the political regulatory aspects, the international trade, associative marketing and the Wine in moderation and conscious drinking project. In fact, Agivi essentially works to provide young entrepreneurs with culture and support to create a system and supply chain because, according to the organization's programme, “our political and legislative interlocutor is increasingly Europe. To lobby you need to get to know each other, know how to work together, share the same objectives in order to negotiate the specific and precise needs of our category with the institutions.
It is recent news that businesses run by young people represent 9,8% of businesses in Italy, and the percentage rises to 31,1% among those newly opened in the first nine months of 2016. In Italy, young people under 40s lead 1.155.000 SMEs, the largest number in Europe ahead of the UK with 990.100, Poland (988.200), Romania (902.200), Spain (691.100), France (568.900) and Germany (511.400) out of a total of 24.889.700 present in the European Union for an incidence of 30%. In Italy, therefore, there are twice as many young people running businesses as in Germany. "Despite the economic difficulties, in Italy there is the largest army of young entrepreneurs in Europe who risk their future every day despite the evident competitive gap that still suffers from our country system", observes Maria Letizia Gardoni, national delegate of young people of Coldiretti.
The UIV President, Antonio Rallo, commented on Terenzi's appointment as follows: “We will study together – he said – a project to consolidate and make the relationship between AGIVI and the UIV more organic. The world of Italian wine needs new ideas and a lot of energy for a prosperous future, precisely those characteristics that we find in the young people of Agivi.”
The first appointment where the two Presidents will work alongside each other will be the Agivi Workshop scheduled for December 7th at the Wine2Wine Business Forum in Verona, which will deal with the theme of native vines.
