• The international ELITE community reaches 828 companies, including 520 Italian companies, totalling 60 billion euro in revenues and over 290,000 employees
• 13 regions and 19 sectors are represented in the new group
• Analysis carried out on ELITE’s impact on companies in the programme since their entrance reveals: + 10% average turnover growth, + 9% average margin growth (EBITDA) and + 56% average growth in the number of employees

ELITE welcomes 50 new Italian companies admitted to the programme dedicated to companies with high growth potential.
The new Italian companies starting their journey today come from 13 different regions and operate in 19 different sectors including Industry, Services, ICT and Health Care, further testimony to ELITE’s ability to represent the real economy.
ELITE is Borsa Italiana’s international programme launched in 2012 in collaboration with Confindustria to support companies’ growth projects. Thanks to this partnership with Confindustria, “ELITE Desks” have been set up throughout Italy, through which over half of the companies now entering ELITE were selected.
The event was introduced with a speech by Ugo Bassi, Director of Financial Markets in the European Commission’s DG FISMA, on the importance of providing European SMEs with financing tools that complement the banking channel in order to support their growth.