Positive balance for IMA

The IMA group closed 2013 with excellent results in all the business areas, thanks to the positive run of sales of automatic machines towards the main sectors (pharma and food) and the contribution of the Ilapak Grup, consolidated since the month of August 2013.

Having met last 29th April, the IMA SpA Shareholder Assembly approved the consolidated balance up to December 31st 2013 (see table).
In commenting the results, Alberto Vacchi, President and CEO of IMA declared:«We have come to the end of a positive year for the Group that has achieved results for 2013 that confirm the excellent state of health of the Group and the validity of investments made in both production innovation and strategic buy-ups.

The last in order of time the buy-up of the Ilapak Group that has contributed positively to the consolidated results for 2013 both in terms of profits as well as with the product and commercial integration with the IMA Group. The excellent performance of the consolidated order portfolio, currently over 53% of the turnover target set for the year at hand., and the uptrend of the first three months with more orders taken than in the same period the year previous, enables us to look on 2014 with confidence».
IMA’s capacity to create value combined with the significant cash returns also produced in 2013, have acknowledge Shareholders a dividend higher than that given the year previous.