For the fourth consecutive year, Maiora, the DESPAR Italia partner for Central and Southern Italy, was granted the Top Employer Certification by the Top Employers Institute. This international recognition underlines Maiora’s dedication to excellent employment practices.

With over 530 stores and 2,800 team members, the certification highlights Maiora’s excellence in HR strategies, particularly its data-driven HR strategies, independent validation processes, and a clear focus on practices that promote business performance, engagement and people development.

Certification based on a comprehensive HR evaluation

The Top Employers Institute awards the certification following an in-depth analysis of a company’s working standards. The assessment covers six key HR areas, including people strategy, work environment, talent acquisition and learning, diversity, equity & inclusion, and wellbeing.

Outstanding results in key strategic areas

According to the findings conducted by the Top Employers Institute, Maiora achieved excellent results in three areas of particular importance:

• Steer: business and people strategies, leadership skills
• United: values and purpose, ethics and integrity, diversity, inclusion and sustainability
• Attract: investment in talent, acquisition of knowledge and brand strength

Being reconfirmed as a top-performing company in HR policies is a tangible sign of Maiora’s ongoing commitment to training, growth, listening, and the wellbeing of its people, to foster a positive and inclusive work environment where values are shared.

“A reconfirmation of this level represents an important and encouraging signal for us, because it clearly and officially certifies the constant commitment that the company dedicates to its people. The effective integration between HR strategy and organisational objectives highlights the transformative potential of the innovative practices we have chosen to adopt”, said  Pippo Cannillo, CEO of Maiora.

“We believe that the strongest organisations are based on listening, sharing objectives and the ability to work together with determination. This is why every result achieved takes on real value only when it is shared by all the people who make up the great Maiora family.”

Source: Maiora SpA SB

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About SPAR Italy

SPAR Italy, known locally as DESPAR Italia, was first granted the SPAR brand licence in 1959. DESPAR Italia grants sub-licenses to regional partners, all of whom work together to grow the brand across the country. As a limited liability consortium, DESPAR Italia aims to provide itself with a corporate structure with a more efficient and flexible organisational structure. The central office places a strong emphasis on own brand product sourcing, supplementing the buying power of the consortium in the market.