The "Winning Companies 2021" by Intesa Sanpaolo, aimed at enhancing and rewarding strategic companies for the vitality of the production chain to which they belong, for the territory and for the ability to create a system, reaches the fifth stage. A total of 112 companies were selected this year, focusing attention on the success factors of SMEs in the particular economic context marked by the effects of the pandemic. Of these, 14 were presented in the fifth stage: AKU Italia (Treviso), Alas Meccanica (Bari), Antica Valserchio (Lucca), B&T Management (Ragusa), Bruno (Avellino), Calabra Maceri e Servizi (Cosenza), Enolgas Bonomi (Brescia), Eurofork (Turin), Hinowa (Verona), OMA (Perugia), Osai Automation System (Turin), Palazzani Industrie (Brescia), Sifar Placcati (Perugia) and Unifarco (Belluno).
To support the production chains Intesa Sanpaolo aims at collaborate in all ways with companies which are the backbone of the country, proposing credit and consultancy solutions that look to the future of Made in Italy. It is no coincidence that the bank led by Carlo Messina already launched the Supply Chain Development Program in 2015, thanks to which companies that are part of a supply chain can benefit from the "value" of the head of the supply chain, accessing loans in better times and conditions in virtue of belonging to a supply chain.
During the Covid-19 emergency, Intesa Sanpaolo strengthened the Program in order to mitigate the impact of the emergency on small businesses of many production chains, allocating a credit limit of 10 billion euro to Italian supply chains and joining forces with those of the companies at the head of a production chain, to help the excellent small and medium-sized enterprises that are part of it to overcome the difficulties caused by the pandemic and launch recovery and growth plans. To date Intesa Sanpaolo has developed more than 780 supply chains, with the involvement of over 19.000 suppliers, for a total turnover exceeding 91 billion euro.
Since the start of Imprese Vincenti, in 2019, they have been almost 10.000 companies involved in the applications, with a growing trend of adherence. While the 2020 edition highlighted the ability of companies to manage the difficult phase and resist the crisis, Imprese Vincenti 2021 focuses on the theme of relaunch and aims at the centrality of the business system as the engine of the country's restart.
"During the pandemic - commented Stefano Barrese, Head of the Intesa Sanpaolo Banca dei Territori Division - there were companies that continued to enhance Made in Italy both within their own reference supply chains and beyond national borders, concentrating on carrying out its business in a sustainable manner on an economic, social and environmental level. Companies that know how vital the relationship with their suppliers is and that by virtue of a supply chain relationship have been able to adapt production, react and resist together with other companies, directly or indirectly generating a positive impact for the territory. For some time now, Intesa Sanpaolo has dedicated the Supply Chain Development Program to these companies, winners above all because they generate development for themselves and for the socio-economic context, recognizing in the supply chains a distinctive all-Italian resource that gives value to the relationship between companies and treasures the of territorial competences. With the Covid-19 emergency, we have strengthened the Program by allocating 10 billion euros to SMEs in the supply chain, but today it is essential to ground the resources of the PNRR, because it is the companies that create the system that are the real leverage for the full implementation of the objectives set ”.
