The operational journey of Confcooperative Piemonte Sud officially began with the first Territorial Council that took place Wednesday 17 May at the Terre del Barolo headquarters after the merger, which took place in December 2023, of Confcooperative Cuneo with Confcooperative Asti-Alessandria.
The next four years will require a representation effort proportionate to theextension of the territory, which makes Confcooperative Piemonte Sud one of the five largest unions in Italy and with one of the most efficient Service Centers at national level: three provinces, 511 Municipalities, 3 Prefectures, 2 Chambers of Commerce, 6 ASLs and hospitals, 10 social welfare consortia and managers, 7 banking foundations, 5 university centres, 8 LAGs, 415 cooperatives and 190,000 members constitute an important employment pool for 15,000 workers and 15 million euro turnover, to which is added the activity of 8 mutual banks with 140,000 members, 1483 employees and direct collection of 12 million euros.
Mario Sacco, President of Confcooperative Piemonte Sudhe has declared: “This representation will have to be shared by the entire Council, which has great expertise. Of course it will be important to pursue a dialogue and a shared strategy with the regional Union, with Northern Piedmont, and above all with the Federations to best represent and support our cooperatives. In the coming years we will work in the name of dynamism and synergy with our companies, with a view to effective and concrete collaboration. It will be essential to build co-planning and co-programming in the territory, two tools consistent with the cooperative entrepreneurial form. All federations and cooperatives will be leading elements in this work agenda, so that incisive and synergistic responses can be generated. This presupposes our commitment to promoting the cooperative model and creating new cooperation”.
Answers that will need to be given to the most current issues and the most urgent challenges for all the entrepreneurial sectors of the territory: first of all the conjugation of sustainability environmental with the economic one, which makes accompanying activity necessary in the ecological transition of cooperatives. But also the employment issuewhich has recently seen renewed recognition of the work of cooperative worker members with significant investments in welfare, is a topic on the agenda of the new Presidential Council.
The deputy vice-president Alessandro Durando he has declared: “The new union for transversality which characterizes our worlds, which cover all the needs of our territorial realities at 360°, expresses potential that we must fully exploit. These in fact represent an important resource to contribute to the quality of community life that we live in, in the direction of care, inclusion, economics and development in the name of social cohesion. On this basis, the commitment in the coming years will have to take shape where it will be decisive to define a constructive work agenda around which to generate profitable synergies with all the public and private actors in the territory. There is no shortage of skills in the field, which is why I am sure that the results will not be lacking.”
New members were elected Presidential Council:
- Ferdinando Balzarotti
- Maurizio Bologna
- Mauro Cerrato
- Federica Curcio
- Alessandro Durando
- Rosa Oberto
- Fabrizio Risso
- Monica Strocco
- Paolo Tallone
The two vice presidents of the agriculture sector are:
- Rosa Oberto
- Fabrizio Risso
