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The Group - Governance

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Governance

The Group’s governance system is structured to guarantee continuity and long-term growth , enhancing people and their abilities and distributing energy to make sure that the entire Group is identified in a common, inclusive and innovative vision. The Board of Directors has a central role in this context, presiding over the sustainable growth commitment in the entire value chain; in accordance with the importance assigned to ESG issues by the entire Group.

Mauro Fanin

President

He founded Cereal Docks in 1983 and still serves as its President and CEO. As a first-generation entrepreneur, he is committed to developing the Cereal Docks Group and transforming it into one of the most solid family-run companies and a prominent player in the European agri-industry sector.

Paolo Fanin

Vice President

Like his cousin, Mauro, he has been part of the company since the very start, mainly supervising the industrial development investment plans. As Chief Operating Officer he managed the creation and revamping of the Camisano Vicentino, Portogruaro, Marghera, Roverchiara and Timisoara facilities.

Giovanni Fanin

Director

Finance and Risk Manager of Cereal Docks S.p.A. from 2011 he worked for Prudential Bache Inc. He has been in Cereal Docks since 2014 also as Chief Executive Officer in Dembiotech.

Giacomo Fanin

Director

Head of Business Development at Cereal Docks S.p.A., he is President and CEO of Cereal Docks Organic and Managing Partner of Grey Silo Ventures.

Massimo Piatto

Director

Group HR Manager Cereal Docks S.p.A. Since 2001 he has held roles of growing HR responsibility in several organisations including that of Group HR Manager Grandi Molini Italiani SpA.

Pietro Cassani

Director

CEO of Marchesini Group S.p.A., he was the first chief executive officer and general manager of System Group. He was Managing Director at Ceramiche Atlas Concorde and General Manager of the Whiteware division in Sacmi Imola.

Franco Scanagatta

Director

A company man, he was Managing Director of Dainese S.p.A. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of 21 investimenti sgr. He has accrued diversified professional experience in sectors such as mechanics, automotive, fashion.

Gaia Melloni

Director

University lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of Lausanne since 2019 and interdisciplinary researcher on corporate sustainability issues.

Francesco Berti

Director

Within the Amadori Group, he assumed the role of CFO, then General Manager and finally CEO, accompanying the strategic choices of the shareholders in achieving the objectives linked to a solid groth path for the company.

BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS

ILARIO NOVELLA
ANDREA LIONZO
ANDREA GIOVANARDI

SUPERVISORY BODY

CHIARA ANSELMI
GREGORIO CAVALLA
MICHELE MIMO

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The Group - Cereal Docks Group

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Cereal Docks Group

In its 40 years activity, Cereal Docks has acquired credibility and reputation thanks to coherence with rooted principles and values, but being able to renew itself over time, its commitment to the enhancement of human resources and the ability to invest in cutting-edge technologies and production systems in quality, efficiency and sustainability terms.

Ready for the future

A solid industrial structure and R&D. The Cereal Docks Group now employs more than 300 collaborators. The production structure includes the new Camisano Vicentino headquarters, 6 production facilities and 4 storage centres. The control, quality assurance, research and innovation functions are performed by Cereal Docks Group Lab.

Cereal Docks Cà Marzare

It performs the entire transformation cycle, from the soy, rapeseed, sunflower seeds to the product: flours, oils, lectins. The production comes from NON GMO raw materials and traced, sustainable supply chains.

Cereal Docks Portogruaro

It is the logistic node for procurement from Eastern European countries, to guarantee supply continuity and efficiency. Founded in 2002, it is dedicated solely to cereal drying, storing and logistics.

Cereal Docks Marghera

Established in 2011 following acquisition of the Porto Marghera facility from the multinational Bunge, the company transforms international origin soy beans into flours, oils and lectins.

Marghera coastal depot

The coastal depot is used to store crude plant-based oils to be used in the refining process and has a storage capacity of 33,000 tons

Cereal Docks International

Founded in 2007, this is the Cereal Docks Group company that develops the international trading of agricultural raw materials and by-products. Cereal Docks International operates the Fiorenzuala D’Arda (Piacenza) logistic hub, reference point for procurement from a strategic area of the Po Valley and distribution pole towards the main customers in the areas.

Cereal Docks Organic

Acquired in 2021, the Cereal Organic facility is specialised in the processing of raw materials from organic farming. The Roverchiara (Verona) facility performs the entire production cycle, from seed to product. Protein panels for animal nutrition, crude oils and oils from the cold squeezing of organic seeds of soy, rapeseed and sunflower; special organic oils like camelina oil and linseed oil are the result of constant attention to “global quality”: sanitation, agronomic, product, environmental and social.

Cereal Docks East Europe

Cereal Docks East Europe performs procurement, drying, storage, logistic and sales services for cereals and oily seeds in Romania, in its Ortisoara facility. The plant has a 90,000 ton storage capacity, a railway link, and a modern quality control laboratory.

Ital Green Oil

Ital Green Oil, with a production facility in San Pietro di Morubio (Verona), operates in the first processing sector for oily seeds (soy) to produce flours for animal nutrition, plant-based oils, and lectins for the food sector.

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The Group - Code of ethics

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Code of ethics

The principles of the Code of Ethics of the Cereal Docks Group companies guide everyone working in the company in their daily business and are an essential part of its style and identity.
The respect, adhesion and spread of the values and content of the Code of Ethics must be pursued above all other company and personal interests that could contrast with them.

Everyone operating in Cereal Docks S.p.A. Benefit Corporation is aware of his/her role in the civil society; they are an active part of a living ecosystem from which they undertake to grasp the opportunities, constantly doing their best humbly, with accountability and passion for continual improvement, also thanks to innovative solutions.

Their role and conduct are possible through respect for what is laid out in the Code of Ethics, also considering Legislative Decree no. 231/ 2001 and as amended.

The principles of the Code of Ethics of Cereal Docks guide everyone working in the company in their daily business and are an essential part of its style and identity.

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CEREAL DOCKS

Supervisory body

Eng. Chiara Anselmi
Via Interrato Dell’Acqua Morta, 50 37129 - Verona (VR)

Attorney Gregorio Cavalla
Galleria dei Borromeo, 3 35137 - Padova (PD)

Dr. Michele Mimo c/o Cereal Docks S.p.A.
Via dell’Innovazione, 1 36043 - Camisano V. (VI)

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CEREAL DOCKS MARGHERA

Supervisory body

Eng. Chiara Anselmi
Via Interrato Dell’Acqua Morta, 50 37129 - Verona (VR)

Attorney Gregorio Cavalla
Galleria dei Borromeo, 3 35137 - Padova (PD)

Dr. Michele Mimo c/o Cereal Docks S.p.A.
Via dell’Innovazione, 1 36043 - Camisano V. (VI)

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CEREAL DOCKS INTERNATIONAL

Supervisory body

Eng. Chiara Anselmi
Via Interrato Dell’Acqua Morta, 50 37129 - Verona (VR)

Attorney Gregorio Cavalla
Galleria dei Borromeo, 3 35137 - Padova (PD)

Dr. Michele Mimo c/o Cereal Docks S.p.A.
Via dell’Innovazione, 1 36043 - Camisano V. (VI)

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Founding principles

legality, by complying with the laws and regulations of the countries the Company operates in, this Code of Ethics and company procedures;
respecting the individual rights of People;
integrity, transparency and loyalty in relations with collaborators and all third parties;
protecting the health and safety of Everyone operating in the workplaces;
protecting, enhancing and involving the company’s human resources;
flexibility and mutual availability of the parties;
protection of privacy and information;
respecting and safeguarding the environment even through care for sustainable growth and commitment to energy efficiency, use of renewable energy sources, in the circular economy;
product security and quality, transformation of raw materials into innovative, safe, sustainable ingredients for healthy, balanced nourishment;
responsibility towards the community;
commitment to continuous improvement with special reference to the types described above, to company performance, product quality, the service offered and the satisfaction of the parties involved;
protection of company assets;
promotion and circulation of the Code of Ethics values and contents.

Policy Diversity & Inclusion

A policy to spread an inclusive company culture, to overcome any form of discrimination and/or prejudice and that recognises the value of diversity.

Our principals

Equal opportunities and gender balance
Generational diversity
Interculturality
Disability
Inclusive Governance

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Report a Violation

To allow individuals to report violations, falling within the categories specified by the law, that they have become aware of in their work environment, each company within the Cereal Docks Group, falling within the scope of Legislative Decree No. 24/2023, has adopted an external online platform.

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Research & Innovation - Corporate Venture Capital

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Corporate Venture Capital

Grey Silo Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital vehicle of Cereal Docks Group. With an international focus, Grey Silo Ventures invests in innovative foodtech eco-system startups, in order to develop new, more genuine and sustainable, functional ingredients

Expand the global food-tech sector horizons, remaining faithful to being plant-based matrix transformers, but continuing to explore new opportunities of business innovation and diversification, searching for a more sustainable, inclusive future for the food ingredients industry.

That is the mission of Grey Silo Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital of Cereal Docks Group created to invest in the non animal-based ingredients supply chain and in technologies contributing to implementing the parent company vision: from commodities to ingredients.

OUR
GOAL

Collaborate with innovative European and international structures to develop a new generation of ingredients, sustaining the development of technologies, new production processes and business models.

Taking part in creating an eco-system of nutrition-linked startups to develop functional innovative, sustainable ingredients means looking forward from a different perspective, investing in the vision and projects of their founders.

A commitment to search for new answers to market trends that concern sustainability and healthier, more inclusive nutrition: requests that consumers are making clear and that Grey Silo Ventures welcomes to also become an “ingredient of change”.

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Research & Innovation - In-company thesis

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In-company thesis

Mantegna Campus brings the university world closer to the working one by offering a training and research opportunity; to help understand the production world logics and promote the exchange of innovative ideas.

THE OPPORTUNITY

At each edition, Mantegna Campus gives 4 students the chance to do a Master’s on in-depth, scientific development of a subject of interest to the company. The work done will be useful for preparing the degree thesis. The Campus lasts 6 months during which the company offers inclusion in Cereal Docks Group Lab, use of the structure and instrumentation, the guidance of an expert company tutor, training on subjects linked to food safety, lodging and partial board (lunchtime from Monday to Friday).

WHO IS THE TARGET

Applications are open to students on Master’s in bio-technologies, food bio-technologies, chemistry, food science, chemical and industrial engineering, with a B2 level of English and wanting to develop a degree thesis project in the company.

SELECTION METHOD

The selection process envisages an initial assessment of the curriculum vitae and the letter of presentation to check applicants' requirements and motive. A physical or remote interview will follow for the students selected to observe the technical skills and mutual interest. Having matured a brief training or professional experience in Campus subjects is preferential.

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Field focus

New functional ingredients from fermentation
Industrialization and quality of new dietary fats

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CALL OPEN

Now – July 31, 2024

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SELECTION

August 2024

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START OF CAMPUS

October 2024

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You can read further information on the processing of your personal data by Cereal Docks and your rights in our privacy policy

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The Group - Values

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Values

Our Charter of values contains our “why”; what we believe in and work for every day. They are the principles our companies are founded on; a reference point for the entire Group and for all those joining us.

Charter of values

What makes us stand out

FARSIGHTEDNESS

Living the present while being well aware of the future. We look forward carefully and receptively, to identify business and growth opportunities.

REACTIVITY

Looking to the future means being able to stay one step ahead. We are fast and dynamic, ready to grasp challenges and opportunities, adapting our models and always developing new, innovative strategies and routes.

EQUALITY

Inclusion, taking part in the debate, sharing successes. Involving people, recognising their quality, is what a system that can generate value everywhere, inside and outside the company, is based on.

What we strive for

SIMPLICITY

We like going straight to the core of the matter because we have learnt to recognise what is essential, to know who we are and what we really want.

TRANSPARENCY

We like relations to be based on transparency. Being clear and direct is how we respect the people we work with every day.

TRUST

We let our work speak for us. Our experience, professionalism and clarity are what make us credible, a partner to be trusted; because trust is the indispensable base of every relationship.

What we are

PASSION

The fire setting everything alight; the awareness that we belong to something important, something to be built together. Not just work, but a mission powered by this energy.

ACCOUNTABILITY

We are part of a system and must look after it; working for the common good. That is what accountability means for us; a commitment taken with our employees, the animals, and the environment surrounding us.

HUMILITY

We know who we are. We know what we are worth but we don’t like flaunting it. Humility is our way of being and relating to the world; an authentic relationship built on the ongoing exchange of stimuli and points of view.

Purpose

Guaranteeing nourishment and well-being to the environment, animals and people to keep the eco-system perfectly balanced

Vision

Working with passion and humility for a common good; building a world where everyone can nourish themselves and be well. Able to renew oneself and evolve over time, like the will to carry on enhancing one’s human resources, the link to one’s territory of origin, the commitment to invest in the continual improvement of processes and products.

Mission

We trust people and they trust us. That is why, alongside our partners, we are building a sustainable model founded on certified supply chains, innovative technologies and essential production, without waste, to protect, nourish, respect the environment, all living beings and for a zero emissions future.

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The Group - About us

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About us

Cereal Docks is an Italian industrial group founded 40 years ago by the Fanin family, specializing in primary agro-food transformation. It produces ingredients derived from oilseeds (soybean, sunflower, rapeseed) and cereals (corn, legumes, rice), sourced from both conventional and organic agriculture, for applications in the feed, food, pet-food, pharma, and cosmetic sectors.

With 6 production facilities, 1 Headquarters, 4 logistic hubs, 1 Quality and Innovation Centre, Cereal Docks processes more than 3 million tons of cereals and oily seeds coming from Italian supply chains every year thanks to the involvement of more than 17,000 farms, and from international supply chains.

In 2021, Cereal Docks was turned into a benefit corporation. This was to pursue, alongside the purpose of generating profit, common benefit purposes; to create positive effects for people, communities, territories and the environment.

PRODUCTION

3 million

Tons of cereals and oily seeds from both Italian and international supply chains.

GROUP

6 production facilities,
1 Headquarters, 4 logistic hubs,
1 Quality and Innovation Centre.

COMPANIES

17.000

Farms involved in the soy, sunflower, white corn, rapeseed supply chains

FROM FEEDING TO NOURISHING

Besides consolidating its core business, Cereal Docks Group is committed to a new evolution shifting attention from the food concept to that of nourishment.

Nowadays, the consumer demand for healthy, genuine foodstuffs, and their health and well-being expectations require safe, traceable, sustainable products with transparent, certified quality standards.
To respond to these changes, Cereal Docks Group's goal is to generate innovation in the plant-based ingredients sector thanks to research and development of new solutions, products and application opportunities, to guarantee nourishment and well-being for people, animals and the environment.

The company’s name celebrates Ceres, the Roman goddess of crops and harvests associated with the worship of Mother Earth. Ceres taught humans to plow, and once agriculture led humans toward civilization, she provided food and laws.

First, Ceres broke open the earth with the curved plow, first gave the world grain and sweet sustenance, first established laws: everything is a gift from Ceres.

Ovid, Metamorphoses V

Ingredients of change

All the Cereal Docks Group companies are committed to the creation of a solid, polyhedric, lean, transparent and essential structure, to embrace change and grasp its opportunities.
Starting from us to make the difference. We are an active part of a live eco-system and we want to improve it daily: humbly, responsibly and passionately.
This commitment is the result of being aware that:

We are the ingredient that starts the change

BENEFIT CORPORATION

Cereal Docks is a Benefit Corporation: an ethical choice, a decision on the evolution of our business model.

Nowadays, the most important challenge for humanity is evolving from “extractive” to “regenerative” paradigms. The former extract more value than they generate, exploiting it to the disadvantage of society and the planet. The latter are at the service of human beings and life on Earth. A business that consumes more value than it creates should not exist.

That is why we have changed the Company By-laws introducing a double purpose: generate profit and pursue positive impact on society and the environment.

Benefit Corporations are ones with modified obligations that commit management and the shareholders to higher purpose, accountability and transparency standards. For Cereal Docks, this common benefit commitment is split into 9 points:

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Prodotti

e applicazioni

Cereal Docks, azienda di prima trasformazione agroalimentare

Trasformiamo materie prime agricole (semi oleosi e cereali) in ingredienti (farine, oli, lecitine, cereali) che sono componenti essenziali di tantissimi prodotti finali.

Cereal Docks rappresenta uno snodo strategico della catena del valore e contribuisce alla diffusione sui mercati mondiali di numerose eccellenze dell’italian food. I suoi prodotti arrivano indirettamente sulle tavole di milioni di consumatori in Italia e in Europa: la qualità e la sicurezza degli ingredienti diventano garanzia di benessere, salute, sostenibilità, valore aggiunto.

La visione strategica di Cereal Docks e delle sue BU: from commodity to ingredients, è orientata all’ampliamento e alla diversificazione del portfolio dei suoi ingredienti in ottica di qualità, sicurezza, innovazione, sostenibilità.

4

settori di applicazione
> 300

prodotti sul mercato
3 milioni

tonnellate di materie prime vegetali lavorate

Products

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Products

and applications

Cereal Docks, first agro-food processing company

We process raw agricultural materials (oilseeds, and cereals) into ingredients (meal feeds, oils, lectins, cereals) that are the essential components of many end products.

Cereal Docks is a strategic node in the value chain and helps circulate many Italian food excellence products to global markets. Its products arrive indirectly on the tables of millions of consumers in Italy and Europe. The quality and safety of the ingredients guarantee well-being, health, sustainability, added value.

The strategic vision of Cereal Docks and its BU: from commodity to ingredients, is aimed at expanding and diversifying its ingredient portfolio with quality, safety, innovation, sustainability in mind.

3 million

tons of raw materials processed
4

application areas
> 300

products on the market

Research & Innovation

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Research

& Innovation

In an increasingly more complex, rapidly changing world Research and Innovation represent the “auxiliary motor of the Cereal Docks Group”

Fundamental for Group growth in the nutrition and wellness linked to food sectors

Both identifying new value creation areas with new business.

And contributing to significantly improving internal processes, going beyond continual improvement.

6 research areas

Circular and functional feed ingredients
Innovative proteins
Healthy nutrition and healthy pleasure
Nutraceuticals and superfoods
Valorization of by-products
Functional gluten-free ingredients and flours

1 R&I department

operating in synergy with all company functions

6 editions

of Mantegna Campus (Collaborations with numerous innovative start-ups)

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Digital transformation redesigning agrifood naturally brings farming into play.

The Cereal Docks Group R&I and Agronomic Department team flanks its agricultural suppliers to stimulate and facilitate the digital transformation processes. Over the next few years digitisation, artificial intelligence and robotics will revolutionise all production sectors and the R&I Department is in the forefront to foresee, assess and implement these transformations.

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Governance

Mauro Fanin

Paolo Fanin

Giovanni Fanin

Giacomo Fanin

Massimo Piatto

Pietro Cassani

Franco Scanagatta

Gaia Melloni

Francesco Berti

BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS

ILARIO NOVELLA

ANDREA LIONZO

ANDREA GIOVANARDI

SUPERVISORY BODY

CHIARA ANSELMI

GREGORIO CAVALLA

MICHELE MIMO

Cereal Docks Group

Ready for the future

Cereal Docks Cà Marzare

Cereal Docks Portogruaro

Cereal Docks Marghera

Marghera coastal depot

Cereal Docks International

Cereal Docks Organic

Cereal Docks East Europe

Ital Green Oil

Code of ethics

CEREAL DOCKS

CEREAL DOCKS MARGHERA

CEREAL DOCKS INTERNATIONAL

Policy Diversity & Inclusion

Our principals

Report a Violation

Corporate Venture Capital

OUR GOAL

In-company thesis

Field focus

CALL OPEN

SELECTION

START OF CAMPUS

Apply here

Values

FARSIGHTEDNESS

REACTIVITY

EQUALITY

SIMPLICITY

TRANSPARENCY

TRUST

PASSION

ACCOUNTABILITY

HUMILITY

Purpose

Vision

Mission

About us

PRODUCTION

GROUP

COMPANIES

FROM FEEDING TO NOURISHING

BENEFIT CORPORATION

Prodotti

e applicazioni

Cereal Docks, azienda di prima trasformazione agroalimentare

4

> 300

3 milioni

Products

and applications

Cereal Docks, first agro-food processing company

3 million

4

> 300

Research

& Innovation

In an increasingly more complex, rapidly changing world Research and Innovation represent the “auxiliary motor of the Cereal Docks Group”

6 research areas

1 R&I department

6 editions

OUR
GOAL