With ten facilities in Italy, twenty distribution platforms, five production sites split between Russia and Africa, three thousand employees and more than 1.5 billion in revenue, Inalca is continuing to grow even in the more difficult markets. “We have to thank the foresight of those who structured the group with absolute efficiency in mind” explains with satisfaction Luigi Scordamaglia, managing director of Inalca and new president of Federalimentare.
In countries such as Russia and Africa, the company has created a proprietary distribution chain, establishing logistic-distribution platforms with large stores of products, allowing easy transportation of the meat products. As the system developed, it was agreed to increase the range of products, therefore the company expanded to distribute other commodities before then offering all main food products.
With this in mind, Inalca food&beverage, a subsidiary of Inalca, was launched two years ago and links more than 500 small and medium producers of typical Italian foods (such as oil, pasta, balsamic vinegar, preserves and cheese etc.) with importers and exporters abroad. Today it has three locations (in Shanghai, Cape Verde and New York) and a catalogue of more than two thousand references. “For us ‘abroad’ has a strong sense of internationalisation, but also of strengthening Italy’s production processes, where we study initiatives which enable us to adapt our products better to individual markets”, concludes Scordamaglia.
