High-performance at a management level, financially reliable and sometimes even sustainable. There are 196 of the most competitive companies in Italy distinguished by sectors which, objectively through a budget algorithm and financial rating, awarded today 11 December with the Industria Felix Award - The Italy that competes, in Milan, in Piazza Affari at Palazzo Mezzanotte, headquarters of ELITE and Borsa Italiana.
Agri-food, majority-owned by the public, environment and communication, culture, information and entertainment are the most rewarded sectors with regards to the financial statements for the 2021 fiscal year (the latest available overall for analysis) with 17, 16 and 15 companies respectively on the podium. Just as there are four regions that boast a higher number of awarded companies than the others, especially in the sphere of SMEs: Puglia (28), Campania (27), Lazio (24) and Lombardy (23). Also in the limelight are 6 companies with billions in turnover: 2 each for Lombardy and Lazio and one for Campania and Sicily.
The 53rd event is organized by Industria Felix Magazine, a quarterly edited by Michele Montemurro which will be released next Monday as a free supplement with Il Sole 24 Ore in the main Italian cities with an investigation into the rates of deterioration in the Abi-Cerved data. The fourth national edition, however, is carried out in collaboration with Cerved, Luiss Guido Carli University, Ac Industria Felix, with the support of Confindustria, with the patronage of Simest, with the media partnership of Il Sole 24 Ore and Askanews, with the partnerships of Banca Mediolanum, Mediolanum Private Banking, Grant Thornton, ELITE, Plus Innovation and M&L Consulting Group.
During the event, presented by journalists Angelo mellone (director of Day Time Rai) e Maria Soave (Tg1) the entrepreneurs and management of the 196 winners spoke and told a short successful corporate storytelling and many other guests: the national vice-president of Confindustria Vito Grassi, the professor of Industrial Economics at Luiss University Cesare Pozzi, the member of the Confindustria Credit and Finance Group Filippo Liverini, for Cerved the executive vice president Corporate sales Fabio Biasini and the CEO of Cerved rating agency Fabrizio Negri, for Banca Mediolanum's Investment Banking, the Origination & Sales network relations managers Marco Gabbiani and Equity Capital Market John Royal, the partners of Grant Thornton Consultants Gianluca De Margheriti and Ria Grant Thornton Fabrizio Perego, for ELITE (Euronext Group) the Italy manager Mauro Iacobuzio, the Heads of Product Development&Management Giordano Sassaroli and of Partners Carolina Avanzini and the Sales & Relationship manager Andrea Magenes, the co-founder of M&L Consulting Group Valerio Locatelli, the founder and administrator of Plus Innovation Giovanni Riefoli, the members of the Scientific Committee of Industria Felix Michele Chieffi e Francesco Lenoci and the secretary of the Industria Felix cultural association Pasquale La Pesa.
Among the most competitive companies in the innovative services sector is WorldMatch SRL, a well-known Italian brand in the gaming sector.
