Milan, November 4 (askanews) – The tenth and final stop in Milan is the Cdp and Confindustria roadshow "Together for the Future of Businesses," which has crisscrossed the country over the past year, starting in Rome and stopping in nine other cities. A journey that involved over 500 companies aimed at supporting the development of the territory, providing effective responses to the needs of the Italian production system. "Through this road show and this partnership with Confindustria, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti has reaffirmed its desire to be close to the territories," said Giovanni Gorno Tempini, president of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. "So not only by opening offices, which is a consolidated and increasingly strengthening organizational choice, but also by going to listen and go and tell what Cassa can do." The Milanese stop completes a journey that, through meetings in the territory with companies and representatives of associations and the financial world, has helped support the growth priorities of individual areas, as the president of Confindustria Lombardia, Giuseppe Pasini, told us. "This roadshow is certainly important," underlined Giuseppe Pasini, president of Confindustria Lombardia. "Our companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, obviously need help on their growth path due to their size and also perhaps when some are also trying to grow abroad, so we look very favorably on this roadshow in a context where we are able to offer support to the local communities." Moreover, this is a time of great uncertainty." For the host, Alvise Biffi, president of Assolombarda, which hosted the event in Milan, this roadshow is also an opportunity to translate national commitments into concrete projects on the ground.
"We are delighted to have CDP here to close the road show," remarked Alvise Biffi, President of Assolombarda, "because it is undoubtedly the key player in Italy that can mobilize this country's patient capital. It represents a cultural turning point for our businesses toward mergers, a step toward our entrepreneurs opening up their equity to external partners, whether financial institutions or other companies within a grouping with the goal of increasing innovation for productivity and internationalization for profitability." The roadshow, emphasized CDP CEO Dario Scannapieco, has allowed us to consolidate our relationship with businesses by establishing a shared working method that will continue to serve our productive sector in the future: "I am very satisfied.
It's a wonderful initiative. First of all," Scannapieco emphasized, "it conveys the image of a Cassa that works to reach out to local businesses, to communicate with them, and to showcase all the products it has to offer. We visited 10 regional capitals. We met with 530 businesses, and we are in contact with many more to promote this new initiative, which supports businesses both when they decide to invest in Italy and when they decide to expand internationally.
It is a collaboration with Confindustria that I believe has borne extraordinary fruit."
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