Introduction section The launch event in Milan with the first enterprises admitted to the program.

The launch event in Milan with the first enterprises admitted to the program.

On April 12th, the launch event of Elite Program will be held in Milan, at Palazzo Mezzanotte.

Elite is an initiative developed in cooperation between the Ministry of Economy and Finance and Italian Stock Exchange aimed at supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by means of an innovative path of organizational and managerial improvement directed to make performing enterprises more competitive, visible and attractive to investors.

Elite offers the selected enterprises a platform of tools and services aimed at facilitating change, attracting financial resources and seizing new business opportunities thus supporting their growth and the cultural approach to financial markets.

Elite will provide the participating enterprises visibility through a website dedicated to the circulation of company’s information that are relevant to the main stakeholders, such as institutional investors, trade counterparts and other individual investors.

The top management of the companies admitted to Elite, Raffaele Jerusalmi, CEO of the Italian Stock Exchange, Andrea Montanino, Director general in the Department of the Treasury, and representatives of ABI (Italian Banking Association), Confindustria (the largest Italian industrial association) and the Bocconi University in Milan will take part in the event.

Website dedicated to the program:
http://www.borsaitaliana.it/elite/homepage/elite.htm

Information about the other special projects supported by the Italian Treasury for the growth and the development of the enterprises:
http://www.dt.tesoro.it/en/progetti_speciali/index.html

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