Group turnover in 2023 exceeds 200 million euros. Blasoni: 'Five RSAs acquired since the beginning of 2024'

As of Thursday 1 August 2024, two new facilities of the Friuli-based company will be operational in Liguria: San Tomaso D'Aquino and La Camandolina, purchased on 30 July. The 173 beds of the Genoese residences bring to 500 the number of beds built or purchased in the first half of 2024: this is, in fact, the fifth acquisition in the year after the Rsa in Pinzano al Tagliamento (PN), Sestri Ponente (GE) and Casalpusterlengo (LO). It is the ownership of five companies that employ more than 350 employees.

"In addition to the structures acquired, there are those directly built by the Group," explains owner and founder Massimo Blasoni, "between acquisitions and constructions we aim for a total of 1,000 new beds by 31 December. This is an imperious growth that follows that of 2023 compared to 2022, which recorded an increase in turnover of +28%. We are investing a lot and we have a development pipeline which, if we continue like this, will soon take us to 10,000 beds: no one in the industry is growing at our speed. The growth, I would like to remind you, of a group that is truly in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and that belongs to the entrepreneur and not to a private equity fund: there are very few of us,' Blasoni continues.

The new openings are part of the EUR 200 million development plan that Sereni Orizzonti has launched and which envisages the construction of 20 new residences for the elderly by 2028: six sites are already operational, the others are about to start. The new beds will be located in Friuli, Veneto, Piedmont, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Sardinia. The development project will have a significant impact on employment: it is estimated that more than 1,000 professional figures such as social workers, nurses, doctors and physiotherapists will be needed to complete the operation.

The company manages a total of more than 5,600 beds with 80 RSAs in Italy and abroad, coordinating about 3,500 employees, with a turnover of 220 million euro by 2023. "These numbers allow us to continue the work that we have been carrying out with pride and commitment for many years now: building Rsa is necessary and fundamental in a country, as the data for the OECD area show, where the incidence of the over-65s on the population is expected to be 33.4% by 2060," Blasoni concludes.