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INTERVIEW

FORMA ITALIANA

GROWTH CONTINUES…

THANKS TO THE DEVELOPMENT

OF THE VARIOUS BUSINESS UNITS

are similar: growth, governance, the generational
passage and the need to be increasingly international.
We have also learned to manage the passages that
growth entails. The governance implemented in the past
has gone well. As I already said in last year’s interview,
we wanted Forma Italiana to become less of a family
company, opening up to young managers. With all due
respect to the values that the family has contributed
to the company since the beginning, a way of doing
business founded on the given word, on morals and
ethics. Together with the new managers, important
drivers for the company, my daughter Nicole joined the
Board of Directors this year. This is to underline that
the company still has its roots in the family and it is
particular attentive to keeping a balanced relationship
with the old partners.

EM: Have you set yourselves a goal for the future?
CB: The most difficult question that an entrepreneur
can ask himself is: “What is the correct dimension that
my company should have, too big, too small?” I believe
that in this global world that runs so quickly, you have to
INTERVIEW WITH proceed quickly and grow continuously and organically.
Therefore we believe that our turnover of euro 150
CLAUDIO GABBAI, million can grow, thanks to the development of all our
FORMA ITALIANA CEO businesses.

EM: One of the activities in which you have invested
EXPORT MAGAZINE: Autumn 2024, the figures show particularly in recent years is logistics.
that your company is growing continuously. What CG: Of course, we do logistics for our business and for
is this due to? others. We provide a tailor-made and non-standardized
ClAUDIO GABBAI: After having crossed a certain service, based on our expertise, as our issues are
threshold of turnover, normally euro 50 million, growth the same as those of other companies which work in
is compulsory, for obvious reasons. As members of distribution and commercialization. This year we took
the Elite Group of the Italian Stock Exchange, when the great step of purchasing another 10,000 square
we dialogue with other companies we notice that the metres of warehouses, so that we can count on 6
issues, although we are in different types of business, warehouses for a total of 30,000 square metres.

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