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From Nigeria an award for Pirelli

Pirelli is also the top tyre brand of the year in Nigeria.

The news arrived from the city of Lagos, where on 21 January an awards ceremony took place for the presentation of the Nigeria Auto Media Awards, the competition organised by the specialised press for the car and transport sector.

For the tyre category, the title ‘2009 Tyre Brand of the Year’ was won by Pirelli, present in Nigeria through its distributor The Infinity Group which, with its sales organisation, after sales network and competence, contributed to the achievement of the award.

The special ‘Diamond Jewel Award’ was received by Lorenzo Arrigone, Pirelli Area Manager – West Africa.

Reads the article on the Nigeria Auto Media Awards:

www.sunnewsonline.com

Spain: Cinturato P7 tyre of the year

The Cinturato P7, the first ecological tyre for high performance vehicles launched by Pirelli last April, has won the title 2010 Tyre of the Year in Spain. The decision was made by an award jury organised by the magazine Neumáticos y Mecánica Rápida c omposed of specialists, distributors and specialised journalists who elected it the winner, preferring it to another eight candidates made by the most prestigious brands on the market.

“The Cinturato P7 embodies the new spirit of Pirelli”, declared Gian Paolo Gatti Comini, director general of Pirelli Spain and Portugal, who received the award in Madrid on 28 January. “A spirit in which performance and respect for the environment have the same importance, which marks a change in our brand positioning and our way of seeing the business. This award, which for us is a very important recognition of the quality of our product, strengthens our conviction that the direction we have taken the right one”.

Premio alle Invenzioni: the patents of Bicocca

With eight patents selected from those conceded and 53 requests for patents deposited during the course of 2008, this year Pirelli also celebrated its innovative ability with the Awards for Inventions ceremony and the traditional presentation of gold and silver plaques.

Gold plaques for three product patents, two for the production process and three for materials were presented at the Castello degli Arcimboldi, Bicocca, on Thursday 26 November. The winners were 17 inventors of Pirelli Tyre and Parts, who received their plaques from the chairman of Pirelli, Marco Tronchetti Provera. Speakers who described the importance of the award-winning inventions were Francesco Gori, managing director of Pirelli Tyre and director general of Tyre and Parts, Pier Giovanni Giannesi, director of Industrial Property, and Maurizio Boiocchi, Pirelli Tyre Product director.

For the inventors of Pirelli Tyre, Pirelli Labs and Pirelli & C. Eco Technology, authors of the 53 patents deposited in 2008, there was the silver plaque ceremony on Monday 30 November in the Auditorium of the Pirelli Tyre Building, Bicocca. Speakers at that ceremony were Francesco Gori, Pier Giovanni Giannesi, Bruno Tronchetti Provera, managing director of Pirelli & C. Eco Technology, Maurizio Boiocchi and Enrico Albizzati of Pirelli Labs.