It is with the best result ever that the Finiper Canova Group celebrates its 50th anniversary by projecting
this success in the future and working on the development of all existing market channels, while maintaining openness towards the possibility of creating new ones.
Finiper Canova, the historic Italian GDO Group that currently has more than 10.000 employees, closes 2023 with a turnover exceeding 3 billion, with over 200 million in EBITDA: results never achieved before to celebrate together with its 50 years of activity.
Thanks to this vision, Iper's products, made in every store, in front of customers, have quickly become the flagship of the company. Furthermore, to always maintain the high quality of the offer, Iper has promoted the creation of an internal School of Crafts, where specialists meet and young people learn new recipes through a continuous training program.
Investing in young people
A priority of the Finiper Canova Group, with the awareness that they are the ones who make continuity and improvement possible. In this perspective, the Group has lowered the average age of the staff, favoring a generational changeover that passes through the integration between the people who will manage the company tomorrow and the more experienced colleagues, committed to their training.
Since 1974 the Group has continued to grow and has gone beyond the traditional boundaries of large-scale
organized distribution thanks to an entrepreneurial intuition which, following the evolution
of customer consumption habits, has allowed Finiper Canova to establish itself, to date,
with formats that are different from the hypermarket but complementary.
The first step in this direction was the strategic acquisition of the Unes chain, aimed
to complete the offer and satisfy the needs of consumers who require an experience
more immediate and local purchasing experience than that offered by hypermarkets.
A central chain for the Group, so much so that, due to the unsatisfactory results of the last
years, a profound restructuring was decided with the aim of relaunching this brand;
a path that naturally requires time to be completed, but which
It is strategic to strengthen the concept of closeness to people.
The constant search for quality and an interesting proposal for customers has led
to the birth of successful labels such as Viaggiator Goloso, which represents a unique case in the large-scale retail trade in Italy: in a short time it has become an iconic brand, a point of reference for Italian food and wine excellence. Viaggiator Goloso is now a strategic asset and a strong point of the Group, which intends to maintain and strengthen investments in the future.
