A research carried out by Sintesi Study Center for CNA Lombardy photographed the automotive supply chain in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna, considered “the three locomotive regions of Italywhich contribute to 41.2% of the gross domestic product and almost 53% of exports, representing 37.1% of employment”.
In particular, the study showed that companies in the sector are in good health and have grown respectively in the last 10 years Lombardy is over 13%, Emilia Romagna is 12% and Veneto is 11%.
The aggregate data of the three regions on the national total is also interesting: 58,000 companies (equal to 30% of the national total), with 198,000 employees (36%) developing a total turnover of 82 billion euros, which corresponds to 40% of the national total.
Now let’s look specifically the data concerning Lombardywhere the role of small and medium-sized enterprises is confirmed as central.
In the automotive sector, to 2023, sThere are 30,010 companies in Lombardy (2.8% of total regional companies) which have around 3.2 employees on average. Of these, in fact, 89.2% are micro businesses, 7.1% are small, 2.5% are medium and only 1.2% are large. Even out of the number of employees in the sector, which are 96,572 (2.3% of the Lombardy total), 45.4% are employed in micro businesses, 19.2% in small businesses, 15.7% in medium-sized businesses and 19.7% in large.
From an analysis of the regional distribution of automotive companies, it emerges how 50% are active in the repair sector, 38% in trade, 8% in spare parts dealers, while only 2% in production and components.
In detail, from 2014 to 2023 the growth of the sector was driven commercial companies (+36%), while those of production fell, -23% and those of spare parts dealers, -8%. The Region’s numbers are in line with those of the Lombardy-Veneto and Emilia Romagna aggregate which in total has seen automotive companies grow by 11% in ten years.
On the employee front, repairs represent the main area of activity in Lombardy with 43%, followed by trade 24%, components 17%, spare parts dealers 9% and production 7%. The number of workers, from 2014 to 2023, however, increased by 14%: trade +27%, components +17% and spare parts dealers +15% did very well, while production decreased by 6%. This last data goes against the trend with that of the aggregate of the three regions which instead shows a +6% thanks to the excellent performance of Emilia Romagna (+15%).
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