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The Japanese Publisher "news digest marketing award" is awarded to the President of Marposs S.p.A.

30/03/2005

on March 30, 2005

Stefano Possati, President of Marposs S.p.A., has received the prestigious prize awarded during the year 2004 by "news digest marketing award". The prize, which has reached his twenty-first anniversary, is awarded by the Japanese publishing company News Digest Publishing Co., Ltd. (http://www.news-pub.co.jp) company directors who are notable for innovation technology and strategic and contribute to the Japanese industrial development in the field of equipment for the production and automation.

The strict procedure for the selection, who collected views of fifty Japanese operators, chosen among industrial and academic sectors and public, highlighted the following four reasons:

1 Marposs has the highest elevation in the world market of in-process measuring equipment and uses its own resources in research and development, to offer the most advanced technology products.

2 Marposs applied technology metrological which guarantees the value added and proven reliability to a wide range of products that offer unique quality features.

3. The international network of sales and technical service of Marposs, with the support of agents and distributors, offers the best solutions that match the specific integration with the need for each market to customers around the world.

4 Marposs, in his role of excellent global company, is situated at the highest levels to supply projected metrological equipment to solve any application case measuring in-process and post-process, in factories or workshops around the world.

The prize was awarded to Stefano Possati by Hachiro Higuchi, President of News Digest Publishing Co., Ltd., during the New Year Meeting held in the Castle Plaza Hotel Nagoya, with the assistance of more than six hundred executives and managers, representatives of the Japanese industrial sectors.

In the presentation of Marposs, President Higuchi placed emphasis on the uniqueness of the event, given that it is the second time, in the veinteñal history of the award, that a non Japanese company has been included in the category of Japanese companiessuch as Fanuc, Mazak and Mitutoyo.

Stefano Possati thanked the award and reminded the audience that the commitment and dedication to Marposs to quality, continuous innovation and customer service, are a reflection of the deep values established by the founder Mario Possati and finds its maximum expression in the investment strategy that Marposs responds to large development opportunities that characterize modern Asian markets.