Returning to the balance sheet, “also in 2020 we made a positive result – explained Fontana – but very concentrated on the main business, because the demand was above all on ultrasonic machinery, due to the need to fight Covid with simple, fast and flexible tools that they could also be taken to intensive care and first aid ».
Homogeneous growth in 2021
In 2021, however, continued Fontana, “we had a homogeneous growth on all lines: ultrasounds + 5%, magnetic resonance, extremely penalized in 2020, in 2021 it exploded with 40% more sales, with the also helped with the launch, at the end of the year, of a new product: Esaote’s first open total body magnetic resonance imaging. Information technology, then, grew by almost 7% ».
The positive trend, said the manger, “affected all the strategic markets of the group – while 2020 was more patchy – with great progress also on international markets, which make up 70% of the group’s total revenues”.
New hires
The company has also announced an increase in staff: “In the last two years – said Fontana – Esaote has grown in terms of staff in the world by more than 8%: we have hired 150 people in the last 18 months, half of which in Italy. (with about 30% in Genoa, ed) and half in the rest of the world “.
Many have been hired, he clarified, “in the areas of research and development and strategic marketing and we think that this trend must and can continue, because we are in a privileged position with regard to the exploitation of new technologies and we have a very ambitious plan for new products. to be introduced on the market in the next few years “.