Our top suppliers received their awards at Bicocca today (10 April). Nine international companies that represent the best in the fields in which they operate, and are partners of fundamental importance to us. Quality, innovation, global presence, rapidity, sustainability, level of service: those are our criteria for evaluation. As our chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera pointed out when he spoke at the ceremony, “We owe part of our success to our partners throughout the world”.
At the moment, about 12,000 companies work with us: they include those who provide our raw materials, printing, energy, IT solutions and many more goods and services. Selected on the basis of stringent criteria of compatibility with our way of doing business, characterised by product innovation and quality, is an ample and complex range of nine award winners who today represent absolute excellence. Our sincere wish is to find the same partners at next year’s awards ceremony, a sign of long-lasting collaboration destined to continue over time.
The decision was taken in order to provide better visibility on the medium-long term context of reference
Pirelli announces that the presentation of the 2013-2017 Industrial Plan, initially scheduled for May 8th, 2013, will take place in November of 2013, following the presentation of the results for the nine months ending September 30th, 2013. The decision was taken to provide better visibility on the context of reference and enable the preparation of coherent medium-to-long term forecasts, taking into account that the macro-economic and business context in which Pirelli operates is in significant and continuous evolution, more markedly so in recent times.
In rapidly developing markets and the United States, in particular, Premium demand is growing at a rate around three times faster than that of global demand for car tyres. In Europe, on the other hand, the persisting economic crisis is having a clear impact on consumption and therefore on the demand for tyres, even Premium ones.
In such a context, at the European market level, Pirelli is carrying out a significant review of its commercial structures. This entails, among other things, a growing integration of high-end European production capacity with the markets that present the greatest demand for Premium products.
The 2013 targets, announced to the market on March 11th, 2013, with the presentation of the 2012 results, remain unchanged.
THE INFORMATION DOCUMENT RELATIVE TO PIRELLI’S PARTICIPATION IN THE PRELIOS RELAUNCH OPERATION HAS BEEN DEPOSITED
Pirelli & C. S.p.A. has called its shareholders’ meeting, both ordinary and extraordinary, to take place in Milan, at Viale Sarca 214, at 10.30 am on Monday May 13th, 2013. It is the sole call.
As well as deliberating on the approval of the 2012 results, shareholders will also be called upon to decide on the confirmation of Mr. Carlo Salvatori who, coopted in July 2012, concludes his role as director at the next shareholders’ meeting. Shareholders will also be asked to decide with regard to the substitution of Mr. Mario Greco, who resigned in March 2013, and of Professor Paolo Ferro-Luzzi, who passed away in November 2011. Shareholders will also be asked to consider some proposed changes to company bylaws, relative to the adoption of the discipline regarding the balance between genders within the administrative and controlling bodies of listed companies and some new legal and regulatory dispositions. Shareholders will also decide in regard to the Board’s requested authorization for the buy-back and disposition of up to 10% of company capital for an 18 month period. In conclusion, shareholders will be called upon to express themselves, via consultative vote, on Remuneration Policy.
The Directors’ reports and the proposed deliberations relevant to all the points in the shareholders order of the day, as well as the Annual Financial Report, together with the relative reports from the Internal Auditors and external auditors, the annual Report on company governance and ownership structure and the Sustainability Report are available to the public at the Company’s headquarters in Milan at Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 25 and at Borsa Italiana S.p.A. as well as being published online on the Company website at www.pirelli.com in the section dedicated to the Shareholders’ Meeting.
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Pirelli & C. announces that today it deposited at the Company’s headquarters in Milan at Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 25 and published online at www.pirelli.com, as well as depositing at Borsa Italiana S.p.A., the information document regarding Pirelli’s participation – as announced to the market on March 27th, 2013 – in the operation aimed at the equity reinforcement, financial re-balancing and re-launch of the activities of Prelios S.p.A. though its recapitalization and the reconfiguration of its total financial debt.
The information document was prepared in accordance with the Consob deliberation no. 17221 of March 12th, 2010 as subsequently modified and the procedures for operations with related parties adopted by the Company.
