ITALIAN ECONOMY

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ITALY

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President ofRepublic

Giorgio Napolitano

Political Regime Parliamentary Republic

Capital Roma

GDP/Cap $2.037 trillion

Main citiesMilano, Torino, Firenze,

Venezia, Napoli

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MAIN ECONOMICAL INDICATORS

Statistics( 20010) Italy trends

Population (millions) 61.016.804

Superficy (km²) 301.340

Density(hab/km²) 201,12

GDP trillion$ 1.782

Growth 1.1%

Pop active 25.5 million

Unemployment rate 8.4%

Inflation rate 1.4%

Exchanges

Exports billion$ 458.4

Imports billion $ 459.7

Finance

Investment rate 19.1% GDP

Public debt 118% GDP

Official currency Euro

Change Euro/$ 1.4227

Source : OECD, IMF

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8 REASONS TO GO TO ITALY

Leading International

exhibitions

Open market

Strategic business sectors

Strategic market

between EU and

Mediteranean sea

Easy to reach

11% European market

Many business

projects planned

for the Milan World

Expo 2015

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STRATEGIC LOCATION

Northern Italy is a part of Blue banana, the European corridor which covers the world’s highest concentration of money, industry and business trends

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ITALY, BUSINESS OUTLOOK

Export commodities - partners

Export – Import revenues

Import commodities - partners

tourism, machinery, iron and steel,

chemicals, food processing, textiles,

motor vehicles, clothing, footwear,

ceramics

Main industries

engineering products, chemicals,

transport equipment, energy products,

minerals and nonferrous metals,

textiles and clothing; food, beverages,

and tobacco

Germany 16.68%, France 8.82%, China

6.53%, Netherlands 5.63%, Spain 4.3%,

Russia 4.12%, Belgium 4.08%

Exports $ 458.4 billion (2010 est.)

engineering products, textiles and

clothing, production machinery, motor

vehicles, transport equipment,

chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco

Germany 12.6%, France 11.57%, US

5.92%, Spain 5.69%, UK 5.13%,

Switzerland 4.69%

Imports $ 459.7 billion (2010 est.)

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ITALY, MAIN SECTORS

Automobile Wine & FoodFurniture

Boating Fashion Manufacture Engineering

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CLUSTERS & SPECIAL ZONES

Source: Club dei Distretti industriali

Paper

Fashion and Textile

Machinery

Aerospace

Footwear - Shoe

Plastic

Furniture

Jewelry

Food industries

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TOP 10 ITALIAN COMPANIES

83,22 64,03 50,10 27,16

20,01 18,17 11,88 11,31 6,35

Turnover in euro billions

Stockholm

Address: Pipersgatan 26, 11228, Stockholm

Phone: + 46 707 72 85 27

Email: stockholm@columdae.com

Copenhagen

Address: Njalsgade 15, 2300, Copenhagen

Phone: +45 21 74 97 68

Email: copenhagen@columdae.com

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Paris

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Phone: +33 607 52 81 76

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Milan

Address: Via Monte Leone 22, Milan

Phone: .+39 34 08 97 50 70

Email: milan@columdae.com

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