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Mapei awarded the Leonardo Quality Prize
Giorgio Squinzi, CEO of Mapei SpA and of the Mapei Group, was officially awarded the Leonardo Quality Prize for Italy by Giorgio Napoletano, President of Italian Republic.
Giorgio Squinzi, CEO of Mapei SpA and of the Mapei Group, was officially awarded the Leonardo Quality Prize for Italy by Giorgio Napoletano, President of Italian Republic This prestigious prize was given by the Italian Quality Committee "Comitato Leonardo"
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The "Comitato Leonardo" was established in 1993 by a group of business people, artists, scientists and representatives of the cultural world, with the support of ICE (Italian Institute for Foreign Trade) and Confindustria (Confederation of Italian Industry), to promote and enhance the Italian Quality throughout the world.
Promoting the Italian Quality means highlighting the entrepreneurial, creative, artistic and cultural talents reflected in the Italian products and lifestyle.
With this aim the Committee instituted the Leonardo Italian Quality Awards for entrepreneurs that have been very successful in international markets.
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The company leaders awarded are called "Ambassadors of the image of Italy in the World", due to their valued international role and to their successful results, which are evidence of the excellent quality of Italian work..
Many are the reasons for the choice of awarding Giorgio Squinzi this year.
The Squinzi family turned a small firm, founded in 1937, into a multinational company, world leader in the field of chemical products for building.
In 1978 Mapei started the internationalization strategy by opening in Canada the first subsidiary outside Italy.
In 1984 Giorgio Squinzi became CEO of Mapei started implementing a corporate strategy based on three main principles: specialization, internationalization and innovation.
In 1998 Giorgio Squinzi was conferred upon the honour of "Cavaliere del Lavoro".
During the last five years the Mapei Group doubled its turnover.
The expected turnover for 2006 is 1.2 billion Euros, while Mapei's employees are 4,500, 12% of which work on research.
The Company's investments in research and development are over 60 million Euros per year.
The industrial Group now counts 53 companies with 46 plants.
7 of these plants are located in Italy, the others in the rest of the world, namely in 23 countries in the five continents.
The Group's total turnover is currently 1.4 billion Euros.
In the last three years Mapei's largest investments were carried out in the United States, UK, Spain and Poland.
During 2006 Mapei also made important investments in Russia, China, Vietnam and Dubai.
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