New projects, strategic repositioning, and the desire to serve the community: these are the short-term goals of UniCredit Foundation. Chairman Maurizio Carrara tells us more, highlighting the role that the Foundation will play on behalf of the entire Group in the non profit arena, seeking to become the organisation's "philanthropist"
The 20 companies that won the UniCredit Premio Ok Italia are ambassadors of Made in Italy. Virtuous examples of small businesses who, through a mix of change and tradition, have turned the crisis into a chance to relaunch their businesses, opening up to the overseas markets to position themselves within a globalised market, gambling on the resources of the territory and leveraging on their ability to create business networks
Despite a downward revision made by Istat, the Italian GDP in Q1 is recorded, thanks to investments in machinery and equipment, a performance better than that of the major eurozone countries
Eastern Europe has faced up to the debt crisis afflicting the entire euro zone. The economic outlook is better than last year, but compared with two months ago forecasts are less rosy
The world's largest aluminum consumer (and producer), China, has now become a net exporter. The industrial metal price has fallen 20%, rendering numerous aluminum smelters unprofitable