• ELITE and Banca Mediolanum partner to support the growth of the Bank’s corporate clients with the ELITE Mediolanum Lounge

• ELITE reaches 1,104 companies, of which 678 are Italian

• Aggregate turnover of the 21 new companies totals 1.3 billion euros, with a total of 6,000 resources employed

• ELITE is  London Stock Exchange Group’s international platform dedicated to companies with high growth potential      

 

Today, ELITE welcomes 21 new Italian companies through  a strategic partnership with Banca Mediolanum, launching the first ELITE Banca Mediolanum Lounge. The new group brings the total number of businesses in the ELITE ecosystem to over 1,100 companies, from across 40 countries, generating over 82 billion euros in combined revenues and accounting for more than 478,000 jobs.  678 Italian companies are part of the ELITE community.

The new companies joining the ELITE community today represent 12 different sectors: from entertainment to fashion, from industry to food. The 21 companies come from - eight different Italian regions: Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Sicily, Umbria, Veneto, Abruzzo, Lazio and Marche., The 21 companies have a combined turnover of 1.3 billion euros and a total of 6,000 employees.

Luca Peyrano, CEO,ELITE: 

“We are delighted to announce our partnership with Banca Mediolanum today and to welcome a new group of 21 Italian companies joining ELITE thanks to the Banca Mediolanum Lounge. The new companies admitted today represent a number of excellent sectors within our country’s entrepreneurial fabric. Thanks to ELITE and Banca Mediolanum, companies will be able to access additional skills and new capital to finance their growth. We firmly believe that the future of our country is closely linked to the ability to enhance the future of its best businesses: ELITE plays a crucial role in achieving this objective”.

Massimo Doris, Chief Executive Officer,Banca Mediolanum:

“The launch of the first ELITE Banca Mediolanum Lounge represents another significant step on the path of growth and innovation that the company has always pursued as a priority objective and which in recent years has enabled us to increasingly build and consolidate a relationship of trust with our corporate clients as well as with their small and medium sized companies.
We have always been convinced that our entrepreneurial fabric represents a necessary component of a productive, competitive national economic system oriented towards the future and ready to take on the international challenges that await it, and that to do this successfully, we need to provide easier access to financing instruments alternative to bank credit. The fact that we have acted as veritable trailblazers for the entire industry in the area of individual savings plans (PIR), immediately becoming the market leader, is tangible proof of this.
With our Investment Bank, we strive to become a point of reference for SMEs throughout Italy, relying on our network of family bankers, local professionals rooted throughout the country capable of meeting any need and facilitating performance even in the areas farthest away from Milan’s financial hub.
The 21 companies making up our first ELITE cohort represent entrepreneurial excellence and various types of businesses coming from different sectors, of varying sizes and from different geographical areas. A true mosaic that reflects our objective of working together with SMEs and entrepreneurs in every sector throughout the country”.

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