Fincantieri, almost 50% will be listed on the Stock Exchange. Prompt increase from 600 million

Fincantieri is preparing to go public with a stake close to 50%, and for this reason it has decided for a capital increase of up to 600 million euros. The decision was made just before the Easter holidays. The group, one of the world's big names in shipbuilding (20 employees, 3,8 billion in revenues), has not yet issued any press releases. However, the process has formally begun because on April 16 Vincenzo Petrone, president of the shipbuilding group owned by the State through Cassa depositi e prestiti (Cdp), signed a call for ordinary and extraordinary shareholders' meetings, which was later published in the Official Gazette on Saturday 19. An obligatory step : what is left over from the 99,36 per cent in public hands is in fact divided among a few dozen very small Italian shareholders plus Citibank.