BERGAMO (ITALPRESS) – The University of Bergamo, together with the CYFE Center for Young and Family Enterprise, presented the event “Society Benefit and B Corp: the path of the enterprise towards impact. Researches, scenarios and testimonies on the future of the enterprise”, took place on 5 December 2025 from 16.00 to 18.30 at the Hall 15 Bertocchi in Via dei Caniana, 2. The initiative, led by Cristina Bettinelli, Director of the CYFE Center, has deepened the advantages of enterprises oriented to the impact, through the contribution of scholars, corporate witnesses and protagonists of the transformation in place.
The characteristics of Benefit companies, companies that integrate into the social object one or more purposes of common benefit, and B Corp certified companies that have obtained B Corp certification in the face of a measurement path and verification with B Lab standards. To open the comparison was Eric Ezechieli, co-founder of Nativa Società Benefit, who promoted the introduction of SBs in Italy, retraced the birth of the B Corp movement and the establishment in Italy of the legal form of Società Benefit, reflecting on the need to return authenticity and transformative vision to the enterprise as a regeneration agent, not only of profit. Following the intervention of Giovanni Foresti (Research Department of Intesa Sanpaolo), who presented the results of a multiannual research conducted on Società Benefit and non Benefit.
The Benefit Companies in Italy show a higher ESG maturity, with greater inclusion in boards, more investments dedicated to sustainability and a stronger integration of impact goals in decision-making and remuneration. One of the main obstacles, according to research, is the sharing of the aims of impact with enterprises in the supply chain of the same Benefit Companies, which are increasingly involved in the path of impact to promote the effectiveness of the strategies adopted. He completed the session of the interventions Giovanna Gregori (AIDAF), presenting the activities of the Association on the topic of sustainability, including the new corporate governance code for unquoted family businesses. The day ended with a round table attended by two companies Benefit (AVM SB and Ferrarelle SB) and two companies that are also B Corp (Redo SGR and GARC Holding SB). The table was moderated by Prof. Paolo Gubitta of the University of Padua, an expert in corporate organization, as well as a study on sustainability issues and Benefit companies.
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