“There is always news, but there are no new investors coming because DeA Capitalhow Igt and the editorial group, are among the strategic activities of the De Agostini group. And I say this to clear out the field of rumors that I have also heard, but they are without foundation“He states this in an interview with Business & Finance Of Republic, Lorenzo Pellicioliwhich stands for pass the baton of the presidency of DeA Capital to his successor Marco Salafuture CEO of De Agostini Spa.
There is no offer “because we are not for sale. Of course, if an offer is more than tempting, as it should be for a group like ours, we would evaluate it, but there are no conditions for this to happen. In De Agostini – he explains – we are doing one strategic portfolio review, also in view of the handover to the fourth generation, which will arrive in three years. Meanwhile, I remember that Nicola Drago, vice president of De Agostini Spa, in May 2020 has took his place on the board of DeA Capital of his father Marco – who was the first to believe in this project – and now it will be renewed until 2025 “.
Pellicioli will step back from the presidency and the CEO Paolo Ceretti will be reconfirmed. “As far as I’m concerned, the shareholder has already communicated that on the occasion of the meetings of the De Agostini corporate bodies which will be held next June and which will be called to renew the administrative body, my candidacy as chairman of the board of directors will be proposed. administration and for this I leave it to my successor in the role of ceo Marco Sala, also my positions as president in the subsidiaries, according to the governance of our group: it has already happened in Igt and will soon happen in DeA Capital. As for Ceretti, who has successfully led the company from the beginning, with all due respect for the next board of directors to decide, I confirm that he will be appointed for the next three years“.
Hence “is cDe Agostini spa’s commitment and support in DeA Capital confirmed, with over 100 million euros under management. Furthermore, also on the governance side, two representatives of the group’s shareholders will sit on the board of the company (Nicola Drago, Carlo Ferrari Ardicini, ed)”, go on.
For a couple of years there has been a disengagement from Italy with the sale of the school’s activities to Mondadorithe slot machine a brand of Lottomatica at the Apollo fundthe payments of Lis at Post office and now the share of Generali because “there is a strategic revision of the portfolio in view of the generational change. But each of these divestments, which are prodromal to new investments, has been evaluated on the basis of a precise strategic choice that does not imply that of leaving Italy as an aim, on the contrary. We have sold businesses where we didn’t have a leadership position, such as school publishingwhere the activity was a unicum and a hazard, like the video lotteries in Italy, or we didn’t have sufficient scale – like the payments from Lottomatica sold to the post office. DeA Capital invests and continues to invest in Italywhere he is a shareholder of 50 companies, which together they have a turnover of over 4 billion and employ 15 thousand people. And we are investing again, in Italy and in Europe, where we have opened new offices and want to develop new real estate funds “, he concludes.
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