Marco Serafini reelected President of ANICAV

 “Dialogue with the supply chain and institutions, social responsibility and enhancement of production will continue to be the main levers of development for the sector.”

Francesca Pancrazio new President of ANICAV’s Young Entrepreneurs Group

At the Members’ meeting on June 20, Marco Serafini was reelected president of ANICAV, the world’s largest association representing tomato processing companies.

Serafini, 63, legal representative of Desco Spa, a canning company based in Pontinia, before leading ANICAV, served from 2006 to 2008 as Vice President of AMITOM (Association Méditeranéenne Internationale de la Tomate) and from 2008 to 2010 as President of WPTC (World Processing Tomato Council).

Vice presidents Gianluigi Di Leo, Francesco Mutti, Aldo Rodolfi and Filippo Torrente were reappointed, to which was added a vice president who is an expression of the Young Entrepreneurs, Gaetano Oliva. For the position of treasurer, Carmine Alfano was reappointed.

“I thank all my colleagues for the trust they have placed in me once again, for me it is a source of great pride. – said President Serafini – In these four years of presidency, we have been committed so that ANICAV could consolidate itself as an authoritative interlocutor and point of reference for the vegetable canning sector and, in particular, for the processing tomato chain. The program that I intend to pursue goes in continuity with the objectives that have inspired my work to date: dialogue with the supply chain and institutions, social responsibility and enhancement of production have been and remain the guidelines on which to focus my mandate. We have lived through years that were not easy, characterized by events of global significance, and the near future, starting as early as the 2025 campaign, will certainly be just as full of challenges. We will have to be able to act with a spirit of adaptation, cohesion and foresight, qualities that our companies and entrepreneurs have never lacked.”

The ANICAV Youth Group has also renewed its leadership. At the last Assembly, a new president was elected, Francesca Pancrazio – 30 years old, head of the marketing and export office of Pancrazio spa – who will be joined by two vice presidents, Federica Vitiello and Gennaro Rega.

“I thank my colleagues who have placed their trust in me and past president Rosanna Sellitto for the work she has done over the years. – declares Francesca Pancrazio – For me it is a great honor to be the seventh president of this Youth Group, a historic group, active for 25 years and among the founders of the Federalimentare Youth Group, of which I myself am a councilor. The hope is that we young people of ANICAV will be able to represent a bridge between the old and the new generation, creating synergistic alliances between the association and entrepreneurs.”