Founded in Lacchiarella (MI) in 2000, Messina Autotrasporti S.r.l. is a company specialising in transport and logistics, able to provide a wide range of highly customised and innovative solutions. Founded by Sara Messina and her husband Tiziano Costa, now in its second generation with the entry into the company of their sons Matteo and Pierpaolo Costa, this all-Italian excellence has managed to impose its leadership on the national and European market, recording strong growth in recent years. Thanks to an innovative vision, in January 2023 the owners founded a second company, Messina Corporation S.r.l., which has already achieved unimaginable goals in just a few months. Tiziano Costa, Logistics Director, Giampiero Sara Commercial Director and Sara Messina, Managing Director of Messina Autotrasporti, as well as partners in the new business together with Matteo and Pierpaolo Costa, reveal the reasons behind this strategic choice.
by Roberta Imbimbo
Mr Costa, with what mission was Messina Autotrasporti born? And what are its distinguishing features that set it apart from its competitors?
Founded more than 20 years ago in Milan, this all-Italian excellence has managed to become an important point of reference in the transport and logistics sector, thanks to a correct entrepreneurial strategy, an innovative business approach, the consistency of a state-of-the-art fleet, and the high specialisation of a qualified and motivated team (which represents the beating heart of our company and on which we continuously invest considerable resources to promote personal and professional growth within a stimulating work environment); peculiarities all of which have enabled it to penetrate important market shares, clearly differentiating itself from its numerous competitors. Over time, however, the company has broadened its core business to include other strategic activities, such as the storage, transfer and regeneration of technological and electronic devices, thus managing to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding and environmentally sensitive clientele. Today Messina Autotrasporti stands on the market as an authoritative interlocutor for companies, as a single qualified and reliable partner able to maximise customer satisfaction thanks to a complete, safe and high quality service. Customer centrality (with the consequent establishment of a valuable partnership relationship) and orientation towards a constantly evolving market (and yet the ability to read changes in advance) are in fact the strengths of a company that in recent years has recorded extraordinary levels of growth, both in terms of turnover and geographical expansion. It is no coincidence that Il Sole 24 Ore and Statista have awarded it the title of ‘Growth Leader’, while the Financial Times has included it in the FT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2021 list.
Pierpaolo COSTA, Messina Corporation S.r.l. was recently established. What is its main objective?
Founded on 26 January 2023 (by Matteo Costa, Tiziano Costa, Giampiero Sara Messina and myself, former collaborators of Messina Autotrasporti), this innovative and dynamic new company was set up with the aim of buying obsolete electronic and IT equipment – which would otherwise be destined to become special waste for companies – and then regenerating and reallocating it, giving it a second life on the market. This is a high added-value activity for a company with a green heart like ours, which is very sensitive to the issue of environmental sustainability and the circular economy and therefore aims to achieve tangible and measurable results, in line with the climate law approved by the European Parliament. By being able to bring back into use disused electronic devices, it is in fact possible to significantly limit those disposal activities that have a strong impact on the environment and the climate: according to recent estimates, around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste are disposed of every year, of which unfortunately only 20% is recycled. Messina Corporation S.r.l. was therefore set up with the overriding objective of stopping this negative trend and giving a second life to those electronic devices that have completed their function on the market, the materials of which are instead recovered, re-purposed and reintroduced back into the economic cycle.
Matteo Costa What is the purpose of Messina corporation S.r.l.?
The idea of founding this new company came from the need to make a concrete contribution to environmental sustainability and, at the same time, to offer customers an increasingly complete and reliable service. On the strength of the experience gained in the field by a qualified and motivated team, Messina Autotrasporti was already working on the formatting and reallocation of disused computers on behalf of Asystel Italia. As we began to carry out this activity in an increasingly methodical and precise manner, we decided to seize this great opportunity by setting up the Messina Corporation, seeing considerable and further growth prospects in this market segment.
Ms Messina, many achievements to date. Future goals?
Despite the extraordinary goals achieved in just a few months of activity, Messina Corporation S.r.l. is aiming to expand throughout the national and international territory, increasing the quality of the service rendered, expanding the target audience (we would also like to address our offer to insurance companies, banks and credit institutions), and last but not least creating a sort of network in the global market in order to be able to retail remanufactured products. We will therefore continue to strive to ensure that the Messina Corporation finds its right position in the market by driving this revolutionary cultural change (by sensitising more and more companies to use remanufactured products), and that Messina Autotrasporti continues to be an Italian excellence recognised and appreciated worldwide.
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