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JANUARY 2017
Italy looks set to create newtrade association
• Four leading Italian brands heading up new association.
•To be known as the Italian Federation of Sportfishing Operators (FIOP). •
A group of four big-name companies in Italy is planning to create a new trade association for the fishing industry in the country. Tubertini,Trabucco, Colmic and
Olympus are working together to create the association, to be known as the Italian Federation of Sportfishing Operators (FIOP),with the aimto give recreational fishing greater visibility,more political weight and to grow the sport. While the final details are not
100 per cent confirmed,Tubertini’s boss Lele Tubertini revealed key details about the plan in a recent interview withMatch Fishing Italia. “Our aimis to bring together
retailers and professionals in the sport fishing industry to work in partnership with fisherman’s associations such as
FIPSAS.The aimismaximumsynergy, but with each area having its own individual skills. “Initially, there will be four
promoting companies – we all share the same spirit, objectives and
strategies.And the door will always be open to others to join, as long as they share those same visions and goals.” Italy presently has a trade
association known as FIPO that used to rorganise several trade shows in the country,which have now ceased to run. Lele claims that this new association approached FIPO to involve it in the project, but was told, after some delay, that FIPO was not interested. “I cannot claimthat FIOP is a
contradictory position to FIPO or a
clone of it – all I can tell you is that FIOP is not an association created to defend the economic and commercial interests of a category, but to attempt to create pressure to express and publicise the needs, wants and discontents of the sport fisherman. “We think that the shopkeepers
are the true economic realities of our industry, so we decided to involve themdirectly in the project. In FIPO today, they are not
there.There are also foreign companies that have different interests fromItalian ones; they have a European horizon or even worldwide. Instead, those realities that we consider
Aim is to bring retailers and sport fi shing professionals together to work in partnership with fishermen’s associations.
fundamental to the economic development of the sector, ie the shops,will be one of themain concerns.”
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