Sustainability Report
Paolo Voltini (The Chairman)
"This is the fifth publication of Casalasco Group’s Sustainability Report. Casalasco is not just a territory or a society, but above all it is a path that started many years ago and today it brings together hundreds of farms, five production sites and a great desire to collaborate and evolve in a continuous improvement process.
On a daily basis I live both the agricultural and the industrial world and I have a constant testimony of thousands of operators who give their contribution to this project through their knowledge and their work. I am very proud to represent a Group that operates under the banner of innovation and dynamism, with the aim of producing not only vegetable preserves but also inclusion, well-being, and environmental sustainability. The year that we leave behind saw the world of agriculture and that of the food processing involved in a historical time with the scarcity of raw materials and the consequent increase in costs starting from those of energy. The Casalasco Group has given a great proof of resilience that, once again, it has certified a quality project and cohesion between the various links of a 100% Italian supply chain.
In this 2022 Sustainability Report, which highlights a new corporate structure, you will find important evolutions related to the organization, which are the prelude to the wide-ranging economic, social and environmental project that binds us and allow us to expand year after year."
Costantino Vaia (CEO)
"A new journey has begun. The Casalasco Società Agricola S.p.A. first year was fascinating, concrete, and full of plans. In this publication we share the essence of 2022 in which so many ambitious goals have been achieved, exceeding our expectations: volumes, revenues, margins, but also results in terms of the development of the social and environmental culture that has always been our core and drives our daily work.
Also relevant was the effort done by the companies of the Group located in the various territories, which have in turn exceeded expectations by continuing to be a strong boost for our development activities.
In particular, the acquisition of Emiliana Conserve was driven by the desire for further growth based on the combination of a modern and innovative industry accompanied by sustainable agricultural activities, certificates, which invest in the search for new quality standards.
We have reached a new dimension that brings us among the top ten organizations of the industry worldwide and confirms how the agricultural and industrial world must walk side by side, aware that one phase of the supply chain cannot exist without one another."
Sustainability Report 2022
The Consorzio
The Consorzio Casalasco del Pomodoro brings together more than 800 agricultural companies and 12000 hectares of tomato crops in northern Italy, creating the most important agro-industrial chain in Italy. Its purpose is to aggregate, support and address the agricultural base of the Italian tomato supply chain, working in synergy with the industrial phase and to achieve a fair remuneration of its members.
The Consorzio’s Stakeholders
Among the priority stakeholders are:
Members: Casalasco S.p.A. is a Company owned by the following Shareholders: Consorzio Casalasco del Pomodoro, CCdP Holding and QuattroR Fund, which participate in the investment through the purchase of shares and capital increases. The agricultural part, through the cooperative Consorzio Casalasco del Pomodoro Sac and CCdP Holding, holds 51% of the share capital while the fund QuattroR the 49%.
Institutional investors: are subjects who systematically and professionally invest the assets collected through securities and the real estate market.
Employees: employees of the company and other types of workers (collaborators, temporary workers and seasonal workers).
Customers: subdivided into final consumers of the branded product and customers of the Industrial or Co-manufacturer and Private Label channel.
Territory, environment and future generations: Casalasco cannot ignore its strong connection with the territories where the members' agricultural companies are based, from which the supply chain originates.
The Supply Chain and its control
Casalasco's corporate configuration, which includes agricultural companies’ members of the Consorzio Casalasco del Pomodoro who have the dual role of owners and suppliers of the raw material, allows a high level of integration between the agricultural and processing phase, unique in the agro-industrial landscape and not found in other industrial chains.
The close relationship between farmers and processing, ensured by the synergy between the Directorate of the Consorzio Casalasco and that of the Casalasco Società Agricola S.p.A., ensures the coordination of strategic and operational choices along the entire supply chain already starting from varietal choices, quantities, methods of cultivation, qualitative parameters of berries, and so on, ensuring with continuity the satisfaction of customers’ contracts requirements and specifications.
The scenario and the value
In 2022 the global volume of fresh tomatoes processed was 37,257 million tons, with a variation of - 4.9% compared to 2021 results. World production is very specific and located in three macro-areas in the northern hemisphere according to climatic conditions, water availability and agricultural know-how.
Casalasco revenues recorded in 2022 amounted to 375,227,389 euros, showing an important growth compared to 2021 thanks to the assigned branch that was 298,236,561€ (taken from the 2021 balance sheet of Consorzio Casalasco del Pomodoro Soc. Agr. Coop.) while the turnover that Casalasco Società Agricola S.p.A. consolidated in 2022 with S.A.C. s.p.a., Pomì USA and from this year also with Emiliana Conserve S.p.A. pro-share from 4 July 2022 totals € 498,275/000.
Our People
By the term “People”, the Consorzio refers not only to the employees of the company, but to all those who, regardless of the type of contract that binds them to the company, work on its behalf. This “broader” notion of the term indicates the Consorzio’s commitment to recognise equal rights and protections not only for the small number of its direct employees, but for all workers to whom it contracts the performance of certain processes or which it hires with flexible contracts. The Consorzio recognises the right of all workers working on its behalf to be treated fairly and justly.
Environmental sustainability
To identify significant environmental aspects and to ensure the improvement of its performance and the achievement of the objectives set, Casalasco has developed and applies an Environmental Management System (EMS). The choice of implementing an EMS represents the company commitment to ensuring the protection of the environment beyond mere compliance with the law, in an area of transparency towards different stakeholders. The implemented system allows a proactive risk management and the control of all the mandatory aspects; moreover, through performance indicators, it allows to measure the results obtained against the defined objectives, and to identify potential areas for improvement.
