WIDE PIAGGIO GROUP MAGAZINE • ARTICLES COLLECTION • SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2017
WIDE PIAGGIO GROUP MAGAZINE • ARTICLES COLLECTION • SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2017
Creativity, excellence, insight, innovation and a vocation for internationalisation growth.
THE 22 LISTED COMPANIES OPERATE IN AUTOMOBILES & PARTS, FOOD & BEVERAGES, PERSONAL & HOUSEHOLD GOODS, RETAIL, TRAVEL & LEISURE. THE SHOWCASE WILL ALSO BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR A DEDICATED FTSE RUSSELL INDEX.
PIAGGIO GROUP CORPORATE VIDEO:Milan, 3 October 2017 – Borsa Italiana (Italian Stock Exchange) announced the 22 listed companies selected for the Italian Listed Brands showcase. Creativity, excellence, innovation and a vocation for internationalisation growth are the key features of Italian brands: this is why Borsa Italiana has decided to offer investors a new tool to identify the Italian companies with significant brand awareness.
The Italian Listed Brands companies are: Autogrill, Brembo, Brunello Cucinelli, Campari, Damiani, De' Longhi, F.I.L.A., Ferrari, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Geox, Luxottica, Moncler, OVS, Piaggio & C., Pininfarina, Piquadro, Pirelli & C., Safilo Group, Salvatore Ferragamo, Technogym, Tod’s, Yoox Net-A-Porter Group.
The list of names in the showcase was drawn up by Borsa Italiana with the assistance of a panel of industry experts, including Italian and international industrial and financial analysts. In addition to traditional criteria, the selection also considered the companies’ key intangible assets, such as brand perception in their customer base and distinctive positioning in their competitive arena. The list will be the basis for a new dedicated FTSE Russell index to cover the Italian market.
Borsa Italiana CEO Raffaele Jerusalmi said: “The launch of Italian Listed Brands on our market confirms Borsa Italiana’s intention of taking continual action to maximise the profile of the top Italian brands. We are convinced that this new initiative is in line with this objective.
The fact that Borsa Italiana is located in Milan, the city that has been the centre of Italian creativity for hundreds of years in many fields, makes us very credible in the eyes of international investors.”
(Source: Borsa Italiana press release)
INFO:
www.borsaitaliana.it/azioni/listedbrands/homepage/homepage.htm
PFF IS THE ONLY ITALIAN PLAYER TAKING PART IN THE PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL EVENT, ORGANIZED TO DISCUSS AND IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE OUR FUTURE.
Boston, Massachusetts (USA), October 2, 2017 – The Piaggio Group with Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF), the Boston-based company that runs the Group’s center for research into mobility for the future, takes part in the World Frontiers Forum being held in Cambridge and at Harvard University (October 1-3, 2017), and is the only Italian organization at the debate.
Founded by Dennis Ausiello (Harvard Medical School/MGH), David Edwards (Harvard, ArtScience) and Robert Langer (MIT), the World Frontiers Forum is an annual event attended by important international groups and companies, as well as academics and cultural bodies, notable for a pioneering vision and proposals to improve the future of the world.
The Forum, which this year is hosting 150 participants from all over the world, aims to identify, share and encourage original innovative ideas that, looking ahead, could increase well-being and the quality of life in an increasingly frontier-oriented world requiring people to change their behavior and the way they think and act.
Piaggio Fast Forward is representing the transport and mobility sector. Piaggio Fast Forward CEO Jeffrey Schnapp is the speaker, illustrating the experience of GITA, PFF’s first robotics project presented in Boston last February: a smart vehicle that can move independently, GITA is designed to improve the mobility of objects and people in today’s increasingly complex urban environments.
Piaggio Fast Forward official video — Autonomy for Humans.Many well-known figures will address the Forum. Highlights include a paper by Fabrizio Hochschild (United Nations Assistant Secretary-General) on the future of global issues such as the economic balance between the population, employment and climate change, and a discussion between Robert Langer (an MIT professor, engineer, scientist and chemist) and David Edwards on Langer’s pioneering work in bioengineering, and its developments and applications for world health.
GITA on Instagram of Le Laboratoire Cambridge:
www.instagram.com/lelabcambridge
Piaggio Fast Forward is taking part at the World Frontiers Forum together with leading players in fields ranging from biomedical research and art to cultural promotion and finance. They include Verily (a company in the Alphabet group), Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group (bioscience), Wyss Institute (a biomedical engineering research institute based in Harvard), VIA Art Fund (a no-profit organization that supports art projects) and Northstar Advisors (a private equity company headquartered in Singapore).
INFO:
www.worldfrontiersforum.org
PIAGGIO FAST FORWARD. PFF was founded in 2015 by the Piaggio Group to head its operations in smart mobility solutions for people and goods. Its mission is to help people move better, further, faster and more enjoyably. It builds robots and light transport solutions to travel with and beside people. In the present era of artificial intelligence, autonomy and ubiquitous networks, PFF seeks to promote more vibrant cities filled with pedestrians, cyclists and skaters, whose mobility is enhanced by new varieties of smart vehicles.
Awards 2017 for PFF: finalist among the 2017 MASS TLC Leadership Awards, in the category Innovative Tech of the Year – Robotics; it is one of the 100 most innovative companies in the world, Robotics category, by leading international pubblication "Disruptor Daily"; it was recognised at the prestigious MITX Awards as a "disruptive genius company".
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