Three and a half billion of added value (more than the entire footwear sector), over 42 employees and over 1,4 billion euros in tax revenues, considering only the direct impact. These are some of the numbers of Finmeccanica, one of the largest Italian groups in terms of size and strategic importance, analyzed in one study of Prometeia made in 2012 on all Finmeccanica activities that generate value in Italy, considering 100% of the Italian companies in which the group holds the majority, all joint ventures pro rata and excluding foreign companies.
From the study presented yesterday in Rome by Alessandra Lanza in the presence of the managing director Alessandro Pansa, other monstrous figures emerge, such as over 11 billion of production value, of which two thirds are exported, contributing 2% to the total goods exported by Italy (almost equal to the entire export of furniture) and 5% to the trade balance of manufacturing.
Then there is everything else, analyzed in detail by Prometeia: from employment to tax revenues, from the impact on the territory to the so-called value added. That of Finmeccanica, for example, is very high, e it represents 0,6% of the entire national GDP: 83.500 euros per employee, a good 47% more than the average for the Italian economy. But what does it actually mean? That every euro of value created by Finmeccanica, a company listed on Piazza Affari with a value of 5,36 euros per share, generates an additional 1,6 euros of added value in the country's economy.
Not to mention the strategic importance, as underlined by CEO Pansa at the press conference: “Producing collective goods in itself represents an added value for the country. But the western consumption model must change and move towards the production of collective goods such as the environment, knowledge and safety. Finmeccanica produces two of these assets, knowledge and security, which means not only the defense of the borders of the country but rather the certainty of the transmission of information, think of Cyber Security".
Translated into figures, beyond the strategic importance the added value produced by Finmeccanica is 3,5 billion direct, another 3,5 billion indirectly (supply chain), and over two billion induced (suppliers). Suppliers that are spread throughout the national territory (94 out of 110 provinces) and are on average larger and more profitable than their respective sectors: they produce an average of 50% more turnover and generate 20% more return on investments (ROI).
Dissemination throughout the country is an added value of added value: Finmeccanica generates 3,8 billion in the North-West, 0,9 billion in the North-East but above all 2,4 billion in the Center and 2,1 in the South, where the added value per employee is confirmed as 50% higher than the area average. Employment itself is well distributed and offers objectively comforting numbers: the 42.290 units of direct employees of the Group (of which over 25% work in Research and Development and in Engineering and Design) support, between the supply chain and related industries, 90 thousand employees throughout Italy, for a total of over 132 thousand.
Finally, inevitable, the importance of tax revenue: according to the Prometeia study every euro of taxes paid by Finmeccanica generates 1,8 euro of additional tax revenue in the economy. Considering indirect taxes, direct taxes, social security contributions, VAT on consumption paid by employees and those employed along the Finmeccanica supply chain contribute to bringing into the State coffers as much as 4 billion euros.
