Joint venture between Borri and BTicino (Legrand Group)

Joint venture between Borri and BTicino (Legrand Group)

Arezzo – Borri SpA, a Tuscan firm specialised in UPS for industrial applications and datacenters (around €60 million sales, 200 people) has signed a joint venture agreement with the company BTicino from Lombardy, leader of the Legrand group in Italy and global...
Lonza Group Invests in Exosomics R&D, Lifescience, Startup

Lonza Group Invests in Exosomics R&D, Lifescience, Startup

Lonza, one of the world’s leading suppliers to the Pharma&Biotech market, announced that it has made an investment in Exosomics, a Tuscany-based molecular diagnostics startup. Exosomics, founded in 2011 and and incubated at Tuscany Life Science Incubator...
The Student Hotel announces its second hotel in Florence

The Student Hotel announces its second hotel in Florence

As reported by thestudenthotel.com, “The Student Hotel group has announced the acquisition of its second site in Florence with plans to begin construction in 2018 and open in September 2019.  It will be the company’s fourth hotel in Italy. Located in Viale...
HPE activates a smart city lab in Florence

HPE activates a smart city lab in Florence

As reported by Toscana24 last week “An innovative technology lab to design projects and prototypes of new services: it is the First Lab (Florence Smart working Lab), promoted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CRF Foundation and University of Florence together with a...
Versilia Yachting Rendez-vous

Versilia Yachting Rendez-vous

DISCOVER TUSCANY: INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND YACHTING TOURISM A WORKSHOP AT THE NEXT VERSILIA YAUCHTING RENDEZ-VOUS IN VIAREGGIO Invest in Tuscany and Toscana Promozione Turistica will be present on Friday the 12th of May with a workshop dedicated to the investment...
MTorres acquires Universal Tissue Technology M&A

MTorres acquires Universal Tissue Technology M&A

The Spanish group MTORRES has recently announced the acquisition of UNIVERSAL TISSUE TECHNOLOGY Srl,  a Tuscany-based Company operating in the tissue industry for complete automatic converting lines located near Lucca. The company will operate under the name of...
Braccialini begins its relaunch with Graziella

Braccialini begins its relaunch with Graziella

Braccialini begins a new journey with Graziella and is preparing to enter the foreign market. The leather goods brand, acquired last February for € 6 million by the Arezzo jewellery company, following a preventative agreement among creditors, restarts with the newco...
PeptFarm set up in Florence new joint research lab

PeptFarm set up in Florence new joint research lab

As reported by Researchitaly.it, “A collaboration between “PeptLab”, a research unit of the University of Florence that has been involved for years in the development and synthesis of peptides of pharmaceutical interest, and the Research and Development...
Italy rises to 13th place in global FDI attractiveness rankings

Italy rises to 13th place in global FDI attractiveness rankings

As reported by Il Sole 24 Ore last week, “Italy has risen to 13th from 16th place in global attractiveness rankings for foreign direct investment, based on an index compiled by consultancy firm A.T. Kearney. Only Sweden has made a bigger jump than Italy, moving...
Primark will open at “I Gigli”

Primark will open at “I Gigli”

Florence – The first big Primark store in Tuscany will open next June 2 in the shopping centre “I Gigli”, close to Florence. It will be the third Primark in Italy, after Arese (Milan) and Brescia, inaugurated in the last two years. «We chose Florence because it...