What is the Young Enterprise Award by Altagamma?

The award was born in 2015 with the aim of enhancing emerging Italian companies in the various sectors represented by Altagamma. The Young Enterprise Award intends to identify and bring the new generation of creative entrepreneurs closer together, offering exclusive tools for their path of growth and new relational opportunities in the Italian high-end system.

Read here: the announcement of the Altagamma Young Enterprise Award 2021

What the prize offers

Altagamma's mentorship and coaching program, in partnership with Borsa Italiana, Elit and SDA Bocconi, provides for various moments of training, consultancy and business strategy dedicated to the winning companies.

Borsa Italiana guarantees each company an individual assessment on the company's quotability, in line with the evolution of the strategic plan; Elite offers the opportunity to participate in a selection of workshops featuring authoritative programs and speakers with the aim of bringing companies new skills and solutions useful for business growth; SDA Bocconi offers young entrepreneurs executive training courses to consolidate their managerial skills.

Finally, Altagamma offers the winners annual membership with the opportunity to participate in all the events and initiatives of the Foundation, a personalized mentoring activity consisting of meetings with Altagamma member companies and a dedicated social communication campaign.

Read also: the seven winners of the Young Enterprise Award 2020

The 2021 winners by category

Fashion: The DoubleJ

Design: Internoitaliano

Jewelery: Sabba and So-Le Studio

Food: Portofino Dry Gin

Speed: Moto Parilla

Hotellerie & Wellness: Fragile Cosmetics

Innovation: Orange Fiber

What is internoitaliano, winner of the Design category

Publisher of objects, accessories and furnishing elements internoitaliano was born with the vocation of bringing the typically Italian design and technical quality of workmanship to the international scene. Giulio Iacchetti is its ’ creative soul, as well as art director. Internoitaliano's ambition is to restore ' normality to design ' : its products are designed to be lasting and become part of everyday life with personality and discretion at the same time.

It is therefore a system of production and sale of furnishing objects inspired by the Italian way of living, founded in 2012 by Giulio Iacchetti and Silvia Cortese which in 2019 was acquired by My Home Collection, a company of the Alivar group. The heart of the brand is made up of a production fabric made up of a network of artisan workshops and manufacturing companies that embody the excellence of the Italian ability to create products of the highest quality. Internoitaliano is therefore a real ‘widespread factory’ throughout the Italian territory.

A recognition, but also an encouragement

“Creativity, talents and craftsmanship are absolute values on which the Italian top of the range is based”, sfolds Laudomia Pucci, Altagamma vice president for Talents and Human Capital. “Even more this year, after such a difficult period, we are proud to be able to celebrate with this award ceremony young talented companies that deserve not only our recognition, but also a great encouragement, as they represent the future of our ‘beautiful, good and well done’. In 2015 we promoted the Young Enterprises Award precisely to support, welcoming them into the network of 109 Altagamma Members, the new Italian companies of excellence that are called to bring into the future, by reworking them, the tradition and cultural identity of Made in Italy”.

“The Young Enterprise Award enhances the new generation of entrepreneurs who are being born in Italy”, comments Stefania Lazzaroni, general manager of Altagamma. “A heartfelt thanks goes to the work of the 12 members of the Advisory Board, who evaluated and discussed the 96 nominations, and to the Altagamma presidency who announced the winners in the seven sectors represented by the Foundation. The eight winners are extraordinary realities that fully express Italian creativity and have all the characteristics to become the future protagonists of our sector”.