Italian Joint Stock Company Offering Class 8.8 Bolts & Assorted Fasteners: Vipa s.p.a

Italian Joint Stock Company Offering Class 8.8 Bolts & Assorted Fasteners

Vipa s.p.a

Vipa s.p.a was established in 1970 when Mr. Poppi Adelio, the founder of the company, begins to supply and commercialize screws and nuts. From the beginning, the company covered a limited field of action paying attention to establishing competitive prices, good product quality and reliable relationship with customers. These are the features that distinguish Vipa since then.

As of today, even if Vipa remains as a family business in the status of a Joint stock company, it spans over an area of 130,000 sqm, in which 30,000 sqm is occupied by the main building. The ISO 9001:2000 certified company sells all fasteners in general and its core business is the bolts in class 8.8.

Targeting Europe

Vipa’s sales channels cover all types of organization as the company is working with distributors, end-user industries and commercial networks. The channels also expand to foreign countries followed by commercial agents keeping up with the market growth. The target market is in Europe. Vipa has established 4 branch offices in Germany, France, Spain and Czech Republic, intending to give more capillary services by building customer assistance in all European markets. Assistance that can be carried out by agents, distributors and/or a combination of the two.

Besides the European market, we come to wonder what Asia means to Vipa. Gianluca Collepardo, Export Manager of Vipa explained, “The markets are very interesting for us in the import part of Vipa instead of sales/export aspect of the company. We are aware of constant developments of the Asian markets and we know that sooner or later they will reach the highest standards that the world markets expect.”

Corporate Added Value

Obviously, service is a critical element for Vipa’s growing presence in the European market. How does the company specialize its service to stand out from counterpart products in the market? Gianluca Collepardo told us, “The product is fairly more or less the same worldwide so we try to give it a difference by providing services for the companies which choose Vipa. This is proven by the fact that we have different Kanban services and programs as well as kit packaging service established to a few and very important companies such as Brevini S.p.A.” The goal of Vipa is customer’s satisfaction and all the rest will go automatically along with that, as we believe Vipa is right on track to comply with the demands of the entire European EU.