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The Cremonini Group is constituted by a set of people who operate daily for the development and growth of the company. For this reason our Group is committed, apart from the achievement of economic results, to the evaluation and interpretation of the needs of all those who operate inside and outside the company and who daily compare themselves over the respect of their values of enterprise. Generating value for the companies of the Cremonini Group signifies observing profitability whilst contextually guaranteeing long term growth for the Group, through good Governance and the safeguarding of the interests of all those involved in our business. Therefore the objective of our Group is that of maintaining the balance between the economic, environmental and social aspects of the activities that we perform in Italy and worldwide.” (Luigi Cremonini, Chairman).

 

SOCIAL INITIATIVES ON THE TERRITORY 

Cremonini, like many industrial family's groups, has its own culture that comes from history and local traditions, from the love of ones native soil and from that unity of relationships and territorial activities that create the social fabric. For this reason, the Group, as part of its corporate social responsibility, sustains various social-cultural initiatives in its home territory.

In 2011 Cremonini has supported, in the form of donations or sponsorship, more than 50  healthcare, charity, cultural and sporting  initiatives, 50% made in the province of Modena.

The company privileges, as much as possible, interventions of a continuous nature to guarantee a more efficient achievement of the objectives. Among the principal social-welfare realities sustained by Cremonini one can note Blue Phone Helpline, Non-profit Foundation ANT Italy, Policlinic of Modena, Policlinic Campus Bio-Medic of Roma, Community of Saint Egidio, UNICEF, Comete, etc. In the cultural field, apart from the management of the archaeological site “City of Rome”, Cremonini is a founding member of the Foundation of the Communal Theatre of Modena, a sustaining member of the Longhi Foundation, the emerging Festival of Cabaret, etc.


INITIATIVES IN AFRICA

Today Cremonini’s presence in Africa is capillary, both with logistic-distribution platforms and processing plants.  Inalca’s mission has always been the commercialisation and distribution of foodstuffs, from meat to frozen fish, expanding in recent years also to various “Made in Italy” products. The experience acquired in the African continent over the last 20 years has enabled Inalca to develop a good local commercial network, capable of covering all the distribution segments, from catering to retail.

Training of local employees. Today Cremonini has approximately 500 employees in Africa, of which only around ten originating from the Italian offices. From the beginning Cremonini has desired to invest in the local workforce for the creation of infrastructures for the sale and distribution of the products commercialised.

Development of the local production chain. Cremonini’s objective, having created infrastructures for the distribution of agricultural food products, is that of collaborating with local authorities of the African countries towards the development of the local production chain for the activities of farming, sectioning, transformation and sales.

Ultimately, Cremonini’s business model is not based on simple activities of trading, or on de-localised production activities, but aims at the transfer of productive and technological knowhow from the food chain, contributing significantly to the economic development of local communities.

These activities, linked to the economic dynamics of enterprise, are flanked by consolidated activities of a philanthropic nature: donations of canned meat for the population to fight hunger, sustaining projects for education (for example the construction of a school in Kipanzu, Congo), funding of sanitary projects for various non-profit organisations, both for hospital activities and for the fight against malnutrition and epidemics.  

Ultimately, Cremonini’s business model is not based on simple activities of trading, or on de-localised production activities, but aims at the transfer of productive and technological knowhow from the food chain, contributing significantly to the economic development of local communities.