Alessandro Mutinelli, chairman and CEO of IWB group, appointed to the national board of the italian wine union

Milan, 15 October 2024 – Italian Wine Brands S.p.A (“IWB” or the “Company”), a leading group in the export of Italian wines and the first listed Italian company in the sector, announces that Alessandro Mutinelli, Chairman and CEO of the Group, has been appointed Director of Unione Italiana Vini, the Italian Wine Business Association.

This appointment represents an important milestone both for Alessandro Mutinelli, who sees his commitment and entrepreneurial vision in promoting Italian wine nationally and internationally recognised, and for IWB, which now acquires a prominent role within the most important representative association for companies in the wine sector, which has 770 member companies and represents more than 150,000 winegrowers, more than 50% of Italian wine turnover and over 85% of Italian wine export turnover.

In addition to the appointment of Alessandro Mutinelli to the board of Unione Italiana Vini, IWB is actively involved in other important institutions in the sector, such as the Prosecco DOC Consortium, the Pinot Grigio delle Venezie Consortium, the Primitivo di Manduria DOC Consortium and the Price Commission of the Verona Commodities Exchange, which testify to IWB’s growing influence both in Italy and on the global wine scene.

Alessandro Mutinelli, Chairman and CEO of IWB, comments: “I am honoured by this new appointment, I thank UIV for having nominated me, and I hope to be able to contribute to the development of the wine sector, which has to face several challenges, both on the demand side (new consumption habits) and on the production, competitiveness and sustainability side. I will be happy to share with the other councillors of UIV the experience and point of view of our company, which, due to its size, has a privileged vantage point on the main world markets”.

Graduated in Economics in Trento in 1991, Alessandro Mutinelli started his career in Deloitte, continued in the start-up Provinco Italia SpA, which merged in 2015 into Italian Wine Brands SpA, the largest private Italian wine group listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. With a turnover of 430 M (2023) and 160 million bottles produced and sold, it is among the top three Italian operators in the sector, with a strong vocation for exports.

ITALIAN WINE BRANDS

Italian Wine Brands is Italy’s largest private wine group. It produces quality wines from Italy’s most renowned winegrowing areas and distributes them on a global scale through all sales channels.

It was founded in 2015 by landing directly on the AIM stock exchange thanks to the consolidation of two important wine companies (Giordano Vini and Provinco) and thus became the first company in the Italian wine world to be listed. Under the leadership of Alessandro Mutinelli and a team of passionate managers, the group has made further acquisitions in the last four years (Svinando in 2018; Raphael Dal Bo in 2020; Enoitalia and Enovation Brands in 2021; and Barbanera in 2022), representing an example of how industrial finance, combined with entrepreneurial skills and vision, allows for performance in the medium to long term. Today, IWB is a true public company with hundreds of first-class Italian and international institutional investors. IWB has the strength of a large Group that operates worldwide and in all channels Italian Wine Brands Spa | www.italianwinebrands.it | info@italianwinebrands.it Sede legale Viale Abruzzi 94, 20131 Milano. T +39 02 30516516 Società per Azioni con c.s. di Euro 1.124.468,80 Registro Imprese Milano, Monza-Brianza, Lodi N 2053323 e P.IVA 08851780968 (on-trade, off-trade and on-line) exporting to over 80 countries. There are five values that guide the people of Italian Wine Brands: the customer, who is our true employer; quality, in product and service; respect for the rules; the growth of our team; and continuous innovation. IWB believes in these values and is committed to spreading them at all levels of the organisation, because the strength of a group like ours, which is spread across different production sites and in different countries, is to have a tight-knit, close-knit team that follows the same direction.