Manni Group considers respecting ESG factors to be a prerequisite for responsible growth: it is aware of the need to integrate environmental and social aspects into transparent governance, and believes that an organisation’s overall performance is closely related to the wellbeing of the social context in which it operates and the impact it has on the surrounding environment.

As stated in the Sustainability Policy, the Group embraces and considers the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To reinforce our commitment, in 2024 we joined the United Nations Global Compact, an initiative to encourage companies to share, support and enforce a set of core principles relating to human rights, labour standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption. The ten principles of the UN Global Compact are shared universally as they derive from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ILO Declaration, the Rio Declaration and the UN Convention Against Corruption.
The goal of UN Global Compact is to accelerate and expand the collective global impact of companies by supporting the Ten Principles and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through responsible companies and ecosystems that foster change.

Manni Group is not only an operator in the industrial sector, but also a promoter of the off-site construction culture. Since 2023, Manni Group, in collaboration with YAC – Young Architects Competitions, has been providing the annual training course in Off-site Technologies for Architecture, an advanced postgraduate course offering architects and engineers the opportunity to acquire cutting-edge skills in off-site construction technologies for architecture. 

The course programme is taught by an exclusive panel of lecturers, including Giovanni De Niederhausern - Pininfarina, Claudia Romero – Politecnica, Giulio Rigoni – BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Aser Giménez Ortega – MVRDV, Grazia Marrone – Politecnico di Milano. 

The design workshop in the second edition of the course, conducted under the tutorship of Nicola Scaranaro of Foster + Partners and in collaboration with Urban Up – Unipol Group ended in February 2025, and tackled the topic of urban periphery redevelopment, reflecting on its social impact and impact on decarbonisation of the built environment. 

The initiative was developed with the support of ROCKWOOL, the main sponsor, and BASF, a sponsor, and supported by the Edera, Fondazione Promozione Acciaio, UNICMI, ADI, EURAC and ILFI associations.

The Giuseppe Manni Foundation was founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Giuseppe Manni, together with a group of doctors, researchers and philanthropists led by Prof. Massimo Gerosa, with the aim of promoting progress in neuroscience. Since its inception, the foundation has been committed to supporting biomedical research on the nervous system, with a special focus on developing neurology and neurosurgery in the Verona area. 

Its work is based on active collaboration between the academic world, public health and the social fabric and exploits the joint participation of institutions and citizens. The foundation supports the most advanced scientific and technological research in close synergy with the University of Verona and the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata (integrated hospital trust – AOUI), both international centres of excellence. It is committed to promoting increasingly innovative, accessible and person-centred healthcare, making scientific knowledge a tool for equity, care and social development.

In 2025, Manni Group is proud to celebrate this important milestone together with the Giuseppe Manni Foundation: 15 years of shared commitment to progress in neuroscience, alongside the University of Verona and the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona.

A path that continues to create value by supporting advanced research and rewarding the talents of two female researchers who have been awarded grants for projects on refractory depression and early diagnosis of dementia.

Manni Group SpA is the holding company that exercises management and coordination functions over its subsidiaries, defining their strategies and administering their shareholdings including through service contracts.

The Group’s Corporate Governance document aims to convey to those who work with the company a clear vision of a correct and responsible entrepreneurial activity, with the intention of laying down some rules on the fundamental aspects that qualify governance. As the need to delegate to the outside world and to cope with potential risks increases, this serves to balance autonomy and control correctly. 

The business is run through a system of delegated powers combined with audit tools, which still leave ample room for operational independence of the subsidiaries and professional autonomy of the employees. Furthermore, through the structure of delegation and control, the Board of Directors (BoD) guarantees its stakeholders that the business is run correctly, responsibly and transparently.

In 2016, the Sustainability role was established when the Business Sustainability Officer (BSO) was appointed with the task of guiding the Group towards an increasingly sustainable business model by implementing and managing corporate strategies and initiatives aimed at promoting ESG issues. The BSO is also responsible for drafting the Business Sustainability Plan (BSP) and monitoring its implementation.

From 2023, the Sustainability department managers were certified as Sustainability Managers and Sustainability Practitioners by CEPAS, and qualified by the ALTIS – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore executive course on “Professione Sostenibilità” (Sustainability Profession). The CEPAS (Institute for the Certification of Skills and Training) certifications issued by Bureau Veritas comply with the UNI/PdR 109.1 standard, which defines the requirements for professionals operating in the field of sustainability. 

The Manni Group’s governance includes Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), a risk management system that includes the holding’s governance and covers the governance of all the companies, implementing all aspects of integrated risk management to safeguard assets and business continuity.

The management focusses on markets, customers and products, as well as on risks strictly related to the business. This ensures that a fair balance is achieved that protects the company from potential losses and damage, while leaving room for the entrepreneurship of the management, with full knowledge of the delegated powers.

The ERM structure allows the governance to constantly monitor the corporate risk situation, identifying current and potential positive and negative impacts that the organisation could cause (or may have caused), broken down by area of responsibility, and to intervene where necessary with improvement plans to implement specific preventive or corrective actions.

We believe that ensuring the integrity and sustainability of the supply chain requires the commitment of all stakeholders. Manni Group also strengthens ESG reporting by constantly monitoring the environmental, social and governance impact of the entire supply chain. 

The holding company’s Procurement department gives a uniform process for collaborating with stakeholders, as well as seizing the opportunities arising from centralised management of large volumes. 

Most core products and services are purchased from suppliers in the European Union, countries where health and safety practices and violations of human and labour rights are protected by local regulations. Particularly energy-intensive suppliers are committing to major decarbonisation plans. The sourcing process for chemical products increasingly involves searching for suppliers who adhere to the ESG parameters adopted by the Group, as outlined in the Sourcing Policy.