Mundys, the new Benetton company, is born. Blackstone minority shareholder

After the delisting from Piazza Affari, the Atlantia group is reborn as Mundys, a word with a strong Latin assonance, which recalls globality. “The tragedy of the Morandi Bridge will forever weigh on our family”, said Alessandro Benetton today in Milan on the sidelines of the presentation of the new company which Ponzano Veneto will control, supported by a “visible” minority shareholder: the American fund Blackstone. “As shareholders we could have looked the other way, but instead we took up the challenge of an ambitious project like Mundys: it’s not a new dress on an old body, but a project studied for more than a year, made of discontinuity and innovation”.

Mundys has a president, Giampiero Massolo, a vice president, Alessandro Benetton, and the name of the managing director will soon be announced, who will have the task of leading a company that has an ambitious goal: to become the leading world group in the infrastructure sector. There are investments available for 8.5 billion which Benetton said could be spent to seize diversified market opportunities, but keeping energy sustainability and innovation as a reference. Mundys is a group focused on mobility, motorway, air and urban, present in 24 countries and with over 23,000 employees (6,000 in Italy). In its perimeter there are Aeroporti di Roma, Aeroports de la Còte d’Azur, the Spanish Abertis, managed with the partner Acs, the Chilean group Costanera, Telepass and Yunex Traffic. The heart of the business has not changed compared to Atlantia, except for the stake in Aspi which has been divested, but the key is new and it is the environmental one which, in order to work, “must have a true technical report with the reduction of CO2 emissions within 2030 and zeroing by 2050”. We can succeed, the president of Edizione is convinced, with a great integration between the world of engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence and focusing on research with collaborations with the great Italian universities, such as Ca’ Foscari and Bocconi.