BAGATTINI admitted into the third ELITE INTESA SANPAOLO LOUNGE of 2023

BAGATTINI becomes an ELITE company through a partnership with Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and seizes the opportunity to be represented among the best companies in Italy and Europe. BAGATTINI has joined ELITE through the Intesa Sanpaolo Lounge: the 22 small and medium-sized companies selected by Intesa Sanpaolo for this third Lounge will have the opportunity to join the network and benefit from highly qualified training courses, being able to enjoy the expert and technical advice of the most solid and important partners in Italy. The SMEs come from all over Italy, and belong to several industrial sectors of excellence in the national economy including Medical, Food, Construction, and Engineering. By participating in the program, the companies involved will have the opportunity to access growth support services and a network of professionals and institutional investors to facilitate their access to the capital market. Guido and Lorella Bagattini, CEOs of BAGATTINI state: "Entry into ELITE is synonymous with excellence for our company. A path of growth and strengthening of our reality that will allow us to consolidate the results achieved so far and increase them thanks to the network that this prestigious ecosystem now makes available to us".   Marta Testi, CEO of ELITE, said: "We are happy to welcome BAGATTINI to ELITE, which will then be able to access new skills and capital to accelerate its growth projects and join the more than 1,400 companies already part of ELITE. The strategic partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo has seen more than 360 companies join ELITE since 2018 thanks to the bank's support. Our country can count on a solid and extremely high-performing entrepreneurial fabric, and these realities are concrete proof of that. They are companies capable of driving the real economy and looking carefully at planning and managing future challenges, especially in the competitive and complex environment in which we operate today. This is why ELITE stands, with its ecosystem and together with the bank and other market participants, as an accelerator of long-term sustainable growth.» Anna Roscio, Executive Director Sales & Marketing Enterprise Intesa Sanpaolo: "Once again, this third 2023 edition of the Lounge has registered a significant number of accessions from companies from all over Italy and belonging to a wide variety of production sectors. This once again demonstrates the ferment and dynamism that characterizes Italian entrepreneurship, eager to grow and get involved despite the uncertainties of the current macro-economic context. Together with ELITE, for five years now, we have been supporting this ambition, offering selected SMEs and start-ups a path aimed at accelerating their dimensional growth, competitiveness on international markets and investment drive, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the growth and development of the country's entrepreneurial fabric."