Globe – Who are the lobbyists? How do they operate? How are they perceived? How do Italian companies lobby and how do they organize themselves to carry out this activity? What are the most active sectors?
These are some of the questions that a research carried out by tries to answer Public Affairs Advisors, consulting company, owned by Value Relations group and specialized in lobbying activities, and by the public opinion survey company Water Market Research, which interviewed about 200 managers of large Italian companies (including managing directors, general managers, institutional affairs managers). The results of the research help to illuminate the contours of a by now vast professional world that is gradually "coming out of the closet", to propose services designed on the basis of the needs of companies, associations or interest groups that need to dialogue properly with politics, institutions and their stakeholders.
“From the research emerges a new figure of lobbyist, an Italian but Anglo-Saxon professional who finally seems to get rid of the historical legacy of an unclear image, also attached to him by the media", he claims John Galgano, chief executive of Public Affairs Advisors, who adds “Anyone who works in institutional relations today carries out a transparent, high-quality activity which companies need more and more and which they require from the market. In our country there are sectors historically more inclined to carry out this activity such as those of Health, Pharmaceuticals and Energy. But other sectors are organizing themselves in an increasingly structured way such as those of Financial Services, Defense and Aerospace, IT and Telecommunications”.
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