Juncker Plan: Cdp Group and Banco Popolare together to support the innovation and internationalization investments of Specchiasol (Verona)
Banco Popolare and SACE (Cassa depositi e prestiti Group) have finalized a € 500,000 line of credit to fund the R&D investments of Specchiasol, a Verona-based SME specialized in the production and marketing of food supplements, cosmetics and herbal medicine products.
This is the latest initiative under the initiative “Programma 2i per l’Impresa” of CDP, SACE and EIF* (EIB Group), which provides Italian SMEs with resources from the Juncker Plan to support their internationalization and innovation projects.
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The loan, issued by Banco Popolare, guaranteed by SACE and counter-guaranteed by EIF, will enable Specchiasol to develop new research and innovation projects to help the company grow internationally, where it is a recognized player in the natural wellbeing sector, thanks to a product range that innovatively combines traditional herbal treatments, scientific research and technological applications.
“This is an important step for our company – declared Giuseppe Maria Ricchiuto, Chairman and Founder of the Specchiasol Group – that will enable us to strengthen our presence in the foreign markets where we are already present and explore new opportunities, making a decisive contribution to the dissemination and affirmation of herbal therapy and natural medicine”.
Specchiasol currently operates in Spain, France, Greece, Portugal, Moldova, Montenegro, the Middle East, Lebanon, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Japan, and China. The group recently opened a company in Russia: Specchiasol 1973.
*This financing is supported by the InnovFin SME Guarantee Facility, with the financial backing of the European Union under Horizon 2020 Financial Instruments and the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) set up under the Investment Plan for Europe. The purpose of EFSI is to help support financing and implementing productive investments in the European Union and to ensure increased access to financing.