Industria Felix Award goes to Epta

Epta wins the Industria Felix Award - La Lombardia che compete, for the third year in succession. The recognition given during the 46th event of the Industria Felix Award, reaches its seventh regional edition in 2023 and rewards the best companies of the mechanical sector for management performance and financial reliability Cerved with legal headquarters in the Lombardy region.

La Lombardia che compete

The initiative is promoted by “Industria Felix Magazine”, a quarterly supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, in association with Cerved, Università Luiss Guido Carli, Associazione Culturale Industria Felix, with the support of Confindustria, the sponsorship of Simest (Gruppo Cassa Depositi e Prestiti), Confindustria Lombardia, Simest, with the media partnership of Il Sole 24 Ore and Askanews, with the partnerships of Banca Mediolanum, Mediolanum Private Banking, Grant Thornton.

The purpose of the organisers is to identify the most competitive and performing companies based on an analysis of the parameters of their income statement. The companies chosen were those which for the tax year 2021 recorded among the best GOM values, with a profit, a positive ROE, a ratio of financial charges to GOM lower than 50%, an employee delta equal or increasing compared to the previous year and a positive assessment of creditworthiness by Cerved.

Of the 700 thousand joint-stock companies analysed, 54 passed the selection process this year, including Epta.

On 3 March, the Giorgio Squinzi Auditorium of Assolombarda in Milan hosted the awards ceremony presented by the journalists Angelo Mellone (deputy director Day Time Rai) and Maria Soave (Tg1 presenter), with the participation of Michele Montemurro, editor of IFM. The day opened with a round table to create networking, followed by moments of storytelling by the awarded entrepreneurs. A further focus point was the sustainability assessment of the Lombard provinces, which saw Milan classify 1st in the economic and social sector and 26th in the environmental sector.

“Epta embarked on a journey in terms of transparent dialogue on sustainability in 2012 with the publication of the first Corporate Social Responsibility Report, which led us to the Integrated Report 2022 a decade later” comment Lisa Milli (Corporate Accounting Specialist and Corp-Finance-Accounting) and Roberto Iammarino (Corporate Accounting Manager), speakers at the ceremony, who conclude: “Winning the Alta Onorificenza di Bilancio award makes us proud of our work and who we are. Our thanks go to the dedication and commitment of all the colleagues who are part of the Epta world.”

We believe that to progress and achieve new goals it is necessary to challenge ourselves, take on board the new and intercept emerging trends. Resilience and the ability to transform and adapt our reality are behind the results achieved, despite the difficulties generated last year by the pandemic.

Innovation and sustainability have characterised our group identity from the very beginning, and they have been elevated in recent years to founding logic for the entire business.

Participation in the Industria Felix Award is an opportunity for Epta to compare itself with numerous other virtuous Italian companies. An essential activity to stimulate a process of continuous improvement and look to the future with confidence