We are about to commence a new year, and we are looking forward to doing so with great confidence and optimism, as always. 2016 has been a year full of new developments, and of international events at which the Sabo brand has acquired further prominence. The quality of our products and services, which we place ever increasing importance on, is now recognised by all consolidated and emerging markets.
The final months of 2016 saw us feature prominently at trade fairs in Buenos Aires and Shanghai: we shall be discussing these events in this edition of the Roberto Nuti News, and showing a selection of photos taken at the fairs. In the meantime, we would like to inform readers of the first trade fairs to be held in 2017 which we, as a Group, shall be officially present at. Our sales manager, Leonardo Borghi, on the other hand shall be telling us about how things went at the Tehran trade fair, where he was a guest of the leading Iranian distributor of heavy goods vehicle spares.
This twenty-fifth number of the Roberto Nuti News also discusses the latest video produced by the Sabo Academy, once again dedicated to the quality of the Sabo product range: in this case, the focus is on the strict controls we carry out during the acceptance phase of semi-finished components.
The “Sabo in Italy” column will be focusing on Dierre Dimensione Ricambi of Rome, a long-established company currently boasting 10 different branches and over 100 employees, which has been distributing our products since 1988.
We have also taken the opportunity to use this number of our online magazine to launch the next edition of Sabo Rosa, a unique prize for women we first awarded in 2010, and which immediately caught the eye of the entire heavy goods transport sector.
As always, we shall also be looking at new developments at Mupo, our Group company specialising in motorbike suspensions, with the presentation of a new fork kit designed for the motorbike racing industry.
Finally, I would like to thank our dear engineer Marino Vitali, who retires after 10 years working for our Group. Mr Vitali was general manager of Sabo Hema Automotive Ltd. in the early years of this company, which produces in accordance with the very highest quality standards and our own strict quality controls. Marino Vitali did everything within his power to achieve the aim of creating a high-quality Italian company, and in order to do so he lived for a number of years in New Delhi with his wife. I would like to thank him warmly for his work and for the endless energy he put into the company during these years of major changes for our Group; a period in which we have grown both in Italy and worldwide, and in which his professionalism and responsiveness have been of fundamental importance.
Massimo Nuti