Milano, Italy – Quantis announces the opening of an office in Milano, Italy and a new team member. The Milano location and team will support our growing number of clients and partnerships in Italy and position Quantis as the leading and local environmental sustainability firm in the country. Quantis’ clients in Italy include, among others, Fastweb, Ferrarelle, Ferrero, Lavazza, Nespresso, Sealed Air, STMicroelectronics and Yara.
“Our new location in Milano, the financial and industrial hub of Italy, will help us do what we love to do: work closely with our clients and partners as we guide them to implement sustainable change,” says Quantis CEO Emmanuelle Aoustin. “Opening a permanent physical presence in Italy fulfills our commitment to expand organically in key markets and to build teams in these markets that deliver custom insight and solutions specific to the challenges and opportunities with a local presence,” she adds.
Service offering adapted to Italian sustainability dynamics
Quantis will be increasing the service offering in Italy to support businesses and brands as they navigate sustainability’s opportunities and risks as well as recent initiatives such as the EU Product/Organization Environmental Footprint (PEF/OEF), Made Green in Italy, Green Public Procurement, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) / Product Category Rules (PCRs) and certifications schemes.
“We couple our expertise in metrics, framework definitions and tool development with the application of sustainable metrics in strategy and communications. This means that we can support Italian companies to move beyond certification in order to embed metrics-based sustainability into the business strategy,” says Simone Pedrazzini, Sustainability Consultant and business development lead for Italy.
Metrics expert joins the team
To support the Italian market, Quantis has the pleasure to announce that Filippo Sessa has joined the team as a Sustainability Consultant and will work closely with Pedrazzini. Sessa is the right fit for the growing team: he has a good level of knowledge of the dynamics of the Italian sustainability market, which is strengthened by his technical expertise.
"It's exciting to be part of the growing Italian team of Quantis. Italy is a market with enormous potential and highly attuned to sustainability issues," comments Sessa.
Sessa has 5 years experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) consulting and has served as Chair of the Technical Committee of the International EPDâ System (Environdec). He has also been involved in the PEF/OEF pilots, where Quantis in present, managing the PEF Pasta pilot and contributing to the OEF Retail pilot.
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Sustainable Brands Staff
Published Apr 5, 2017 1pm EDT / 10am PDT / 6pm BST / 7pm CEST