(Finance) – Connecting Italian SMEs and large foreign buyers. Kicks off with this goal the SACE’s new digital Business Matching platforma real “virtual square”, where Italian small and medium-sized enterprises can get in touch with foreign multinationals in the sectors of their interest to increase business opportunities.
I am already over 40 – SACE informs – foreign buyers selected from all over the world. The SACE platform was launched in conjunction with a business matching meeting with Sumeca leading Chinese company, which presented itself to over 20 Italian companies active in numerous sectors of instrumental mechanics, including agricultural machinery, textiles and for the processing of plastics and other materials.
The new platform is aimed at all companies, especially SMEs, who will be able to register for free in the Reserved Area on the SACE website and have the opportunity to consult the profiles of the buyers involved in the numerous SACE business matching initiatives. Registration will allow you to stay updated on new initiatives e request bilateral meetings or ad hoc consultations with the support of a dedicated team.
The initiative is part of the intense digitization of the SACE Group’s offer and Business Promotion, a program dedicated to facilitating meeting opportunities between Italian companies, in particular SMEs, and foreign buyers active in countries with high potential for Italian exports. Several overseas buyers of the program benefit from “Push Strategy” credit lines guaranteed by SACE with the aim of promoting Made in Italy and increasing Italian supplies, in fact to date they have been generated 1.6 billion euros of contracts.
From 2018 to today, SACE has organized more than 100 business matching events, both in presence and digital, involving more than 4 thousand Italian companies And 128 foreign buyers facilitating directly more than 1400 bilateral meetings thanks to a dedicated team of experts. SACE and SUMEC they have collaborated in the past in various initiatives with the involvement of about 400 Italian SMEs and the support of SACE financial / insurance solutions dedicated to the Chinese market.
The initiative – highlights SACE in a note – responds to the need of companies to be able to access digitally, quickly and easily, every day of the year and exactly when they need it with foreign buyers involved in large international projects otherwise difficult to reach. This is a further and important step in this process of supporting the growth of the entrepreneurial fabric made possible also thanks to the synergies between the SACE Domestic and International Network, which combine foreign demand for goods and services with the Italian offer of these goods and services. . The program also benefits from collaboration with the partners of the Italian System.
“We are very pleased to be able to provide small and medium-sized Italian companies with a business matching platform that allows them to connect quickly and easily with large foreign buyers, combining the ease of use of digital technology with the dedicated support of a team of experts – he has declared Luca Passariello, head of SACE’s Supply Chain & Business Promotion – we are proud to be able to launch this initiative with business matching with Sumec, a partner with whom we have consolidated an excellent relationship over the past 4 years, facilitating exports from Italy to China and supporting commercial relations between SUMEC and Italian SMEs ” .