| #CAVANNANEVEREVERGIVEUP 23/03/2020
With reference to the decision of the Italian government to extend the shutdown of manufacturing industry to contain the COVID virus, Cavanna is working hard & operating to provide the main services in terms of spare parts, both essential and critical to all our customers. We are waiting to receive the definite authorization by the competent authorities. The company is fully operative in Smart working mode for Sales activities, service and technical assistance, engineering, supply chain and accounting. We can also provide remote assistance, with proper connection quality service, thus considering the extraordinary moment we are facing. Cavanna considers the health and safety of the workers and employees a priority: for this reason, we have adopted all security protocols and sanitization extraordinary measures, as well as the 70% of the company is operating in smart working and thanks to e-collaboration technology. On this purpose Cavanna has activated insurance policy for all its workers, including the smart working ones, in case of covid-19 infection, to reinforce security and precautionary measures already in force. As a group we are giving extreme attention to the health and safety of our staff and partners, therefore our plants in Italy are closed (except for urgent spare parts shipment) until April, 3rd, in order to grant security and reduce the risk of infection, also as the head of the company keeps working hard and with no interruption. |
| #CAVANNANEVERSTOPS 11/03/2020
Even though Cavanna has not been affected by any suspected case of the CO-VID19 we are strictly following our Government indications aimed at limiting the diffusion virus in north regions of Italy. Since yesterday we are subject to some restrictions to the movements of people in and out the neighboring territories, but this is not slowing our activities. Thanks to the technological tools already in place, many of our employees, are fully equipped for ‘smart working', from Cavanna premises, home or any other place when they are. While our engineering and manufacturing activities proceed as scheduled, measures are being taken to grant our personnel safety, such as, keeping a reasonable distance among the people on the factory floor and in the offices, to avoid close contacts and gatherings. On the other hand, due to this ‘Force Majeure' inconvenient, we will not be allowed to send our field engineers to customers site for the next 2-4 weeks.That said, we are fully operative and ready to support you through all our digital tools: Video Conference with multiple teams, Virtual Commissioning and Remote Assistance, e-Ticketing and Remote Service by our Cavanna ‘App'. … and, of course, through the over 100 dedicated engineers in our Branches and Service Hubs around the world (Italy, France, Belgium, Poland, US, Brasil, Iran, Thailand, Australia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica). Stay tuned on ‘What's Next' at Cavanna innovation team. |
| Cavanna wins the Innovation category of the award "From father to son - The taste of doing Business" 04/12/2018
Milan, December 3rd 2018 – The award ceremony of "From Father to son - the Taste of Making Enterprise – VIII Edition" was held on December 1st. An event promoted by CERIF – a research centre on family Enterprises in the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – with the contribution of Credit Suisse, LCA Studio Legale, KPMG, Mandarin Capital Partners, Lombard International Assurance and the collaboration of the Commercial Chamber of Milan, Monza Brianza and Lodi and Sole24Ore. After a deep analysis of all the nominations received, the jury proclaimed Cavanna S.p.A. as the winner in the innovation category. The motivation, makes known the Cerif, is "for having developed numerous technological patents on extremely advanced machinery for the packaging, in particular, of food products. These machines are designed to meet the needs of Italian and foreign customers in a unique way. In particular, innovation manifests itself in a spasmodic attention to the creation of value along the customer's supply chain. This know-how is shared through the creation of an open company Academy also outside". Alessandra and Riccardo Cavanna, CEOs of Cavanna S.p.A., collected the prize. The jury proclaimed Donnafugata S.p.A. as the absolute winner. Special mention also for: Mantero Spa (internationalization), Idea Spa (young entrepreneur), Molino Rossetto (History and tradition), Diemme Industria Caffè Torrefatti S. P. A (Small Business), Fratelli Polli Spa (opening of the capital), M.E. Marittima Emiliana Spa (women in command), Globalpesca Spa (Brothers in command). "The Italian business world consists of 82% from family businesses, of which 97% have fewer than 20 employees, and each year are over sixty thousand entrepreneurs involved in the generational transition. – Declares Professor Claudio Devecchi, sole administrator and scientific director of CERIF – During the eighth edition of the prize, the Cerif has once again had the honor of rewarding companies that have proven themselves more virtuous in a delicate moment of generational change. Many of them are already in the fifth generation, some even at the seventh. The continuity of the succession appears as one of the most difficult and crucial problems of the family business, not underestimate it is the first step to face it at best". |