New president for Footwear ETP
Cleto Sagripanti has been named the new president of the Footwear European Technological Platform (Footwear ETP). Mr Sagripanti is managing director of MANAS, a shoe manufacturing company in Macerata, and member of the executive committee of the National Association of Italian Footwear Manufacturers (ANCI).
ANCI is an active member of the Footwear ETP, a network of stakeholders that the European Commission uses to assist development in the European footwear industry. The Platform brings together ideas and participation from companies, research centres, associations and other stakeholders and proposes guidelines to steer the European footwear industry toward a knowledge-based economy.
“ANCI has always been on the frontlines in the development of innovation in our sector," states Vito Artioli, president of ANCI, “and it immediately espoused the objectives of Footwear ETP as a new way to jointly coordinate research, development and innovation across Europe. I am especially satisfied that the leadership of the Platform is now Italian and is embodied by a young entrepreneur with long membership experience. In addition, Cleto Sagripanti is the only Italian to chair a technological platform on a European level.”
