2016 Pirelli Supplier Awards Honoring Supplier Outstanding Performance

September 8, 2016, Milan - Following the standards of global cooperation, innovation, quality, speed, sustainability and service standards, Pirelli selected 9 companies and awarded them with the 2016 Pirelli Supplier Award. Pirelli provides high quality materials and services to suppliers.

2016 Pirelli Supplier Award

The 5th Pirelli Supplier Award Ceremony was held at the headquarters of the company at Arcimboldi Castle. Mr. Marco Tronchetti Provera, Vice Chairman and Global Chief Executive of Pirelli Group, together with Mr. Pierluigi de Cancellis, Director of Procurement, presented to 9 winners from different fields. Awards: From event management to IT strategic solutions, from logistics and transportation to raw material production.

Pirelli Purchasing Director Pierluigi-de-Cancellis

Similarly, the award-winning suppliers come from all over the world, Germany, India, Italy, and China, which are inseparable from Pirelli's global vision.

The companies that won the 2016 Pirelli Supplier Award are: Glanzstoff Sicrem, a manufacturer of material reinforcements from Italy; Trinseo, a manufacturer of synthetic rubber; Wuxi Chengcheng, a supplier of silicon materials from China; Bola, India carbon black supplier; Prasjida Aneka Niaga Tbk, a natural rubber supplier from Indonesia; Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the world's leading US IT company; Alpha Technologies, a company focused on R&D lab instruments; , Italian event company; DHL, a famous German logistics company.

Pirelli is particularly concerned about the relationship with suppliers because suppliers are extremely critical partners in the implementation of corporate strategies.

Mr. Pierluigi de Cancellis, Purchasing Director of Pirelli, said that Pirelli continues to pay close attention to the high-end market. For us, a flexible, efficient, transparent, coherent and sustainable business model is the basis for our cooperation with suppliers. Therefore, we believe that suppliers are our sincere partners and share a common goal: to grow in the future. In addition to the raw material suppliers, we also honored the logistics and IT equipment companies, demonstrating the integration of Pirelli's internal and external diversified talents and expertise. Its knowledge and experience have made innovative contributions to the company and thus achieved greater results. The results.

The Pirelli Purchasing Department employs 176 professionals worldwide, of whom 40 work at Pirelli's headquarters in Milan. Each year, the department selects and manages 9,500 suppliers and carefully selects the most suitable suppliers based on safety, innovation, product and service quality, sustainability, and supply chain efficiency and risk criteria. This not only requires analyzing suppliers. It means analyzing their downstream suppliers.