The “Imprese x Innovazione” award is organised every year by Confindustria (the Confederation of Italian Industry), in collaboration with APQI - Associazione Premio Qualità Italia (the Quality Award Association of Italy) and several experts in the field. It provides a major impetus towards spreading the culture of innovation as it involves the whole production system in Italy.

 

The selection phase was divided into three phases, followed by a final assessment carried out by a team of independent auditors. This assessment went into some depth in analysing the level of integration of specific areas related to innovation. These areas, appraised both for their approach and for the excellence of the results they achieved, included: leadership and innovation strategies; resources, technologies and innovation processes; efficient use of digital technologies; total quality management; internationalisation; environment and energy efficiency.

 

MBDA entered the competition, involving large, medium and small sized enterprises throughout Italy, taking advantage of its technical and technological expertise as well as its innovation programme that has been implemented within the company.

 

“This important and prestigious result stands as a well deserved recognition of the efforts made by the whole of MBDA Italy”, said Antonio Perfetti, Managing Director of MBDA Italy and Executive Group Director Sales & Business Development MBDA. “The innovation processes introduced at all levels within MBDA are showing that we are moving in the right direction as far as the continuing innovation of the company is concerned”.

 

“Innovation is in our DNA, as one of our company sayings goes”, added Marcello Pacifici, MBDA Group Director Engineering & Seekers and Deputy Executive Group Director Technical, in charge of Innovation within the MBDA Group. “This award provides concrete evidence of this. Such recognition provides me with huge satisfaction as it represents the synthesis of an almost perfect implementation of the principles of innovation that we have been carrying out in our company during all these years. With this award we are reaping the benefits of a lot of hard work carried out not only in MBDA Italy, but throughout the whole MBDA European Group. As a group we can claim to be a benchmark in this field”.

 

 

 

 

 

Confindustria: Founded in 1910, Confindustria is the Italian employers’ federation representing the manufacturing, construction, energy, transportation, ITC, tourism and services industries throughout Italy. Its aim is to promote business and economic growth thus aiding its voluntary membership comprising well over 113,000 member companies.

 

MBDA: With industrial facilities in four European countries and within the USA, MBDA has an annual turnover of €2.6 billion and an order book of €12 billion. With more than 90 armed forces customers in the world, MBDA is a world leader in missiles and missile systems.

 

MBDA is the only group capable of designing and producing missiles and missile systems that correspond to the full range of current and future operational needs of the three armed forces (land, sea and air). In total, the group offers a range of 45 missile systems and countermeasures products already in operational service and more than 15 others currently in development.

 

MBDA is jointly held by BAE SYSTEMS (37,5%), EADS (37,5%) and

FINMECCANICA (25%).