CAMPARI IS THE TOP BEVERAGE COMPANY IN ITALY. THREE WINE PRODUCERS HAVE ALSO MADE IT ONTO THE TOP TEN LIST: MARTINI & ROSSI-BACARDI, CAVIRO, AND GRUPPO ITALIANO VINI

Campari is the number one “wine & spirits” in Italy. This is the recent confirmation by a Mediobanca study, which recently presented its annual classification of the most important Italian companies.

The 42nd edition of the Mediobanca classification has ranked companies by earnings for 2006, and includes 3,685 companies, of which 1,527 are industrial or service companies.
For the FBA section (those companies that produce and sell alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages), there are about 40 names.
And, at the top of the list is Campari, which is also one of the most important beverage producers in the world (the global list is headed by Diageo, which recently ceded Cinzano to Campari, and by Pernod Ricard, which is present in Piedmont with the Distilleria Ramazzotti di Canelli). In second place, is the mineral water giant, San Pellegrino; third place was taken by the world’s number one soda producer, Coca-Cola; fourth by Dutch beer producer Heineken, followed by San Benedetto (water) and Peroni (beer).

Within the top ten on the list there are three wine producers: Martini & Rossi-Bacardi, Caviro, and Gruppo Italiano Vini. On the rest of the classification, there are also important names of Italian cooperatives like Cavit, Mezzacorona, and Cantina di Soave, as well as the top private winemaking companies Antinori, Gancia, Fratelli Martini, Zonin and Ruffino.



The Italian Beverage Colossals…

Company, Earnings (thousands of euros), Employees

Davide Campari Milano, 932,358, 1,605

San Pellegrino, 872,712, 2,246

Coca Cola HBC Italia, 822,286, 2,533

Heineken Italia, 579,924, 1,044

Zoppas Finanziaria, 554,772, 2,001

Acqua Minerale San Benedetto, 541,938, 1,216

Birra Peroni, 346,211, 765

Martini e Rossi, 293,636, 406

Caviro, 281,791, 515

Giv Gruppo Italiano Vini, 264,631, 902

Illva Saronno Holding, 246,417, 820

Distilleria Fratelli Ramazzotti, 227,075, 172

Holding Montenegro, 211,192, 292

Diageo Operations Italy, 183,641, 416

Diageo Italia, 178,811, 116

Cavit Cantina Viticoltori, 172,576, 189

Fratelli Averna, 172,508, 375

Ferrarelle, 166,598, 437

Branca International, 154,473, 257

Spumador, 147,234, 422

Ferdinando Giordano, 135,499, 341

Piero Antinori, 129,185, 968

Pepsico Beverages Italia, 120,543, 249

Gancia, 108,777, 287

Mezzacorona, 106,579, 310

Fratelli Martini Secondo Luigi, 90,488, 84

Birra Porst, 90,284, 439

Stock, 89,481, 135

Cantine Cooperative Riunite, 81,104, 185

Compagnia de’ Frescobaldi, 72,786, 617

Casa Vinicola Zonin, 67,745, 237

Banfi, 65,166, 217

Gruppi Coltiva, 64,898, 40

Cantina Sociale Cooperativa di Soave, 63,069, 127

Ruffino, 62,729, 223

Norda Finanziaria, 61,492, 208

Santa Margherita, 55,724, 83

Casa Vinicola Carlo Botter & C., 54,325, 73