Company Overview

The Pirelli Group has a long industrial tradition and is ranked among the world's leaders in every sector in which it operates. For more than a century, they have been developing into a fully-fledged multinational, firmly rooted in various national markets.

Their competitive strength lies in technological capabilities and research, and in the quality and the professional expertise of their human resources. By continuing to focus on customers' needs, they are able to produce and sell complex, high-end products and to operate successfully from their various international bases.

Innovation and research are Pirelli's most distinctive hallmarks.

The Company has pioneered new technologies in order to have an online integrated management system, from supplies to production, from distribution to sales - with the ultimate aim being to create value. The emphasis on Innovation has allowed the development of new businesses in the real estates field; here too Pirelli has made its mark, both in the great initiatives of development and in the management and increase of value of properties.

They attach the utmost importance to continuous improvement and to the environmental and social impact of our processes and products.

The internationally renowned excellence of the Group's Corporate Governance represents a prioritised, systematic commitment on the part of the Company's top management.

Management

Their management style revolves around striking the best balance between personal responsibility and teamwork, centralized strategy and decentralized operating responsibility. They will finance their continuing growth through the creation of the right value for shareholders, customers and employees, while fully respecting the communities in which the Company operates.

The Group's identity has traditionally been based on a set of Values that over the years have been pursued and protected by us all, which has enabled them to consolidate and advance their corporate culture. From these Values, the Company has extracted a set of principles and rules that are enshrined in the Code of Ethics recently adopted by the Board of Directors of Pirelli & C. SpA.

The Code of Ethics embodies the general principles - transparency, legality and fairness - that have informed our business dealings across the board at every level in Pirelli Group. They are convinced that business cannot act as a driver to civil society and the economy unless is grounded in solid ethical values.