Exports down by 4.6% in first 3 quarters of 2003
The value of Italian exports has gone down by 4.6% in the first 3 quarters of 2003 compared to data from the same period in 2002, according to Istat (the Italian Institute of Statistics).
The value of Italian exports has gone down by 4.6% in the first 3 quarters of 2003 compared to data from the same period in 2002, according to Istat (the Italian Institute of Statistics).
An agreement for the start of a network of regional offices to promote the process of internationalisation and development of trade in supporting the Lombard productive system was signed today in the Regional Council Offices by governor Roberto Fo
The Institute for Insurance Services for Foreign Trade (SACE) and Sanpaolo IMI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for short-term operational insurance realised in Iraq by Italian exporters.
Manufacturing and processing companies in Milan are more confident, but companies in the service industry are still predominantly negative, except for the IT industry, about the current market situation and the expected development of supply and d
Sviluppumbria, the chambers of Commerce in Perugia and Terni, Gepafin, Sviluppo Italia Bic Umbria Spa, provincial administrations and related business associations, headed by Novaumbria, have submitted a scheme on business development concerning t
Capitalia bank, headquartered in Rome, have announced the agreed purchase of Cofiri, the factoring, leasing and financial services firm, for Ђ145m.
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Tuscany, Friuli, Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Liguria, Lombardy and Piedmont are to benefit from an inter-regional bond-issue programme set up by the Italian bank Sanpaolo Imi.
The focus of Italy's legislative efforts against money laundering has been on organised crime and the banking industry, although the law is of general application.
In the opinion of Prof Gianmaria Gros Pietro, head of management economy at Turin University, a former president of state holding companies IRI and ENI, as well as current president of Societa Autostrada, the Italian economy may soon be heavily pe
The president of API Turin (The Association of Small and Medium Sized Companies), Sergio Rodda said: "The Turin small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) will have to be more pessimistic than they were a few months ago with regard to the performanc