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Savim: A Successful ESG and CSR Model for Italian Small and Medium Enterprises Gabriele Lazzari ipcm®
Environmental sustainability-oriented actions, corporate welfare policies, and social engagement are ethical practices that, although complex, can represent long-term added value for companies within today’s landscape of countless production and economic challenges. Savim’s recent history is a testimony to how the implementation of such practices can indeed be a smart investment for the future of SMEs.
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n today’s Italian economic context, small and medium-sized
crucial for a company’s long-term success. The targeted combination of
companies are increasingly faced with complex challenges such
policies related to environmental sustainability, corporate welfare, and
as rising raw material costs, new environmental protection laws,
social commitment towards the local community not only meets the
evolving regulations on the use of substances potentially harmful
needs of modern society but is also the key to building a competitive
to human health, and the labour market’s red tape. As their internal
business.
economic and human resources focus on these, however, they run
Savim Europe Srl, a long-standing Italian manufacturer of industrial
the risk of neglecting many important Environmental, Social, and
coating equipment based in Arbizzano (Verona), stands out in the
Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) aspects.
panorama of small and medium-sized Italian companies as a tangible
In fact, adopting and implementing practices that meet such criteria is
example of how the adoption of practices aimed at meeting ESG and CSR
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