The experience and knowledge gained in the local region favoured the business’s rapid expansion into the surrounding regions (Veneto and Lombardy) and a continuous revolution of the product portfolio. In the late 1990s, GPI had crossed the borders of Trentino and was about to become a player of reference for the Italian market.

The start of 2000 was characterised by an extremely quick growth in the business. The millennium bug and adoption of the new European currency drove many Public Healthcare and Hospital Companies to equip themselves with new IT tools. GPI’s proposal was reliable, concrete, referenced and required investments in line with the Public Administration’s spending budget, and gradually, the Company gained more relevant market segments as a supplier of IT solutions.

Little by little, the entrepreneur’s strategic intuition became clearer. In following years, Fausto Manzana understood that ICT could regulate the provision of healthcare with greater efficiency, but that there were still significant obstacles to citizens/patients’ access to the services. He understood that GPI had to gain a new dimension, intercepting additional needs from the Public Administration.

Through the acquisition of Argentea, the trusted Trentino company for booking healthcare services in the Autonomous Province, GPI carried out a significant diversification of its business, becoming a player of reference in the provision of administrative services for Healthcare. The acquisition of Argentea also allowed it to extend its products by entering the electronic payments sector.

The strategic business diversification continued in the years after with the acquisition of SPID, a Trentino company specialised in the creation of automation systems for hospital pharmacies.

The Company’s third decade of business was characterised by some fundamental stages of growth:

2008: Launch of targeted acquisitions in the Group’s main business areas (over 25 acquisitions) to consolidate its market position;

2013: Entry of Fondo Orizzonte S.G.R. into the shareholding group to support the growth via acquisitions;

2016: Listing on the AIM market of the Borsa Italiana through the merger by incorporation of SPAC Capital for Progress 1;

2018: Journey of internationalisation through M&A transactions outside the domestic market.

From a supplier of information systems for local Healthcare to a multi-business industrial firm that operates all over Italy with significant overseas experience. But GPI’s story is much more… It is a story of stability, simplicity, customer focus, reliability, tradition, daily commitment and new goals to achieve. A story whose roots run deep in Trentino and returns to this wonderful area time and again.