Elite Lounge: 12 new SMEs enter financial acceleration programme

The fourth ELITE Lounge of 2023 is getting under way: twelve SMEs will participate in the financial training and acceleration programme promoted by Intesa Sanpaolo in cooperation with ELITE (Euronext Group).

Companies taking part in the Lounge enjoy access to services that support sustainable growth and a network of professionals and institutional investors that can facilitate their access to capital markets.

The focuses of the training programme include:

• strategic innovation
• internationalisation
• corporate culture
• sound governance
• finding the right financial resources

Size growth and M&A deals are in fact increasingly necessary steps for Italian SMEs and require an appropriate entrepreneurial culture.

The companies selected in the fourth Lounge of the year come from all over Italy and operate in various industrial sectors such as apparel, food, metalworking and mechanical engineering and energy engineering.

In five years, Intesa Sanpaolo has held 18 Elite Lounges and supported over 370 companies.