Sustainability Channel

PIRELLI CONFIRMED AS GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY LEADER IN DOW JONES INDEXES

This is the outcome of the 2009 review by the SAM Group of the Dow Jones sustainability indices, in which Pirelli continues to be included both in the DJSI WORLD index and in the European DJSI STOXX index.

Within its segment, the Bicocca Group – the only Italian group that has achieved worldwide leadership – obtained a global rating of 88% (+ 11% with respect to 2008) compared with a segment average of 48%.

Exactly as in previous years, for the Autoparts & Tyres segment, only 4 companies were featured in the DJSI World index: Pirelli & C, Denso Corp, Michelin, and Johnson Control Inc., while only two are included in the DJSI STOXX: Pirelli and Michelin.

SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) is the Swiss ethical rating agency that carries out the process of selection of companies for admission to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a global index that brings together the best companies in the field of economic, financial, environmental and social sustainability, the result of collaboration between the Dow Jones New York stock exchange index, STOXX Ltd. and the SAM Group. Pirelli was selected and added to the Dow Jones Sustainability STOXX (DJSI STOXX) index for the first time in 2002 and has been included for years now also in the global Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

"PIRELLI WORLD" MAGAZINE: WORKING ON THE FUTURE

The new Pirelli World gives voice to the changes taking place in the various businesses of the Group, and interviews Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman of Pirelli, and Maurizio Boiocchi, Pirelli Tyre’s director of Product development, who tell of the strategies, the projects and the people working on Pirelli’s future.

• Green performance is the Group’s password by which to affront the recession and sustain global competitiveness. In Pirelli World, the commitment of Pirelli Eco Technology in Holland and China through interviews with Davide Fedeli and Francesco Ceriani.
• Working Pirelli: 137 years of work in the factories of the world told by a book, an exhibition and a conference. The Pirelli Foundation is born for the promotion of Pirelli’s business culture.
• The search for excellence never stops. At B.U. Moto they change the approach to sales with a new training programme for the whole commercial structure.
• How do you achieve 40% of market share? The Petinsa-Pirelli case: focus on model distribution in Uruguay.
• And then from Brazil the backstage pictures of the 2010 Cal, the Pirelli PZERO collection for the next season and much, much more…

Pirelli World nr 56 Aug09

 Pirelli World, an English language quarterly magazine targeted at the Group’s management around the world, is published in Milan and distributed to all Group  affiliates worldwide.

PIRELLI CELEBRATES ITS 80 YEARS OF HISTORY IN BRAZIL

Eighty years of industrial and commercial presence in Brazil, celebrated with an exhibition-event entitled “80 years of history. A way to leadership”that covers the history of the Group in all sectors in which Pirelli is active. Industry first of all, but also sport, communication, social and cultural activities, which have left their mark in the collective memory of the country and often have crossed the national borders.

During a press conference at the Santo André factory in the State of San Paolo attended by the Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce with Overseas, Miguel Jorge, representatives of the local institutions, the Consol General of Italy in Brazil, Marco Marsilli, the director of ICE of San Paolo, Giovanni Sacchi,the Chairman of the Pirelli Group, Marco Tronchetti Provera, Managing Director of Pirelli Tyre Francesco Gori and the CEO of Pirelli Pneus Latin America, Guillermo Kelly, new development plans were illustrated for the three-year period 2009-2011, which include a further investment in Brazil of 200 million dollars and an increase in production capacity.

The strategy of reinforcement in the area will consolidate the leadership of the Pirelli Group in South American markets. The new investments will permit an increase in production of 20% in car and motorcycle tyres. Brazil, where Pirelli has been present since 1929, is a country determined by the strategy of growth of the Group. The country is the leading car and truck market on the South American continent and is one of the largest at a world level.