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ALIWORLD 2016

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4 INTRODUCTION 2020 VISION The Ali Group's executive management team of Luciano Berti and Filippo Berti outline their five-year plan for the company. "The most reliable way to forecast the future," said American futurist and author John Naisbitt, "is to try to understand the present." Anticipating tomor- row's success by concentrating on the small details of the present is something Ali Group founder and chairman Luciano Berti has come to fully appreciate, having spent 52 years at the helm of the business. "Concentrating on the short-term means being able to adapt day-to-day," he says. "You have to think long-term but also consider the small details of the present. It is like trying to cross a river. You need to keep looking at the other side of the river, but you must also focus on keeping your balance on the stones beneath you. Sometimes you need to take a step back, or sideways, to keep your footing. But in business, as in life, it is important to look ahead and push boundaries. That's the beauty of life." The Ali Group vision for the coming years is to further grow the Group, add great brands to the portfolio, attract more talent and expand globally. Growth is intrinsic to the Ali Group's nature. In an ever-changing and ever-expanding foodservice envi- ronment, to be successful a company must look for- ward, not backward. Solutions that worked decades ago may not work today, and even today's successes always need to be examined to find ways to improve. That constant striving for improvement is one of the foundations of the Ali Group's success. Luciano Berti's son Filippo is perfectly positioned to manage as head of the company's North American operations. For Filippo Berti, who manages the Ali Group's brands, manufacturing plants and 3,600- plus employees in North America, the global food- service industry is set for further change in the next five years, despite not being the most "fast-paced" of sectors. "It's still very fragmented on the manu- facturing and the distribution side. In some markets, though, we are experiencing consolidation trends at both ends, especially in mature markets, while Asia and the Middle East are seeing new players coming to the game. There are now more players in competition and I think we are likely to see more consolidation at the top of the sector. One of the bigger players could become significantly bigger," he says.

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