Parma & its enterprises

LOGISTICS AND PRODUCTION-RELATED SERVICES

Logistic services and production-related services F rom the keen insights of its founder who, in the early part of the last century had the idea of providing those involved in food

Another important reality is that of road haulage ; this sector is mostly made up of 70 companies of significant caliber and about 2,000 employees overall. Another important activity, given the number of people that it employs (4,000), is that of cleaning services . There are approximately 200 of these, most of which are very small, family-run businesses, but there are also ten or so large-scale companies. These companies provide services to businesses, public offices, institutions, health care structures and schools. Another important branch of activity is that of business consulting . Among the services offered by these consulting firms (numerous and mostly small in size) are those related to business strategy, management, the environment, research, marketing, economic/finance, personnel, corporate structure, etc. Of special note is a medium-sized company that provides a highly specialized, technologically advanced service in the field of aerial territory mapping .

production and perishable products a transport network throughout Italy that would deliver these products in the shortest amount of time possible while retaining their full freshness, a major shipping company was born in Parma. Today, thanks to an articulated network of temperature-controlled hubs and a vast fleet of refrigerator trucks, this company has become a leader in product shipping, storing and distributionunder constant temperature control. From transport, other activities have branched out, together building up the “logistics” sector. Speaking of logistics, totaling about 8,000 employees overall, one cannot overlook the CEPIM (the Italian acronym of the Aemilian Padan Entreport) which moves an average of 50,000 unit loads per year, using 1,500 employees and relying on 600 thousand square meters of covered areas. Our province also hosts a so-called “cold city”. It has 300 thousand square metres at its disposal to store, manage and label frozen foodstuff and can accommodate over 940,000 cubic meters of goods, supervised by one hundred employees.

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