The 2024 Sustain & Innovate Plan aims to achieve responsible growth and accompany Italy’s path to sustainability and social inclusion.

Our Strategy


Matteo Del Fante, Poste Italiane Chief Executive Officer and General Manager commented: “We are rolling out an anti-fragile strategy to successfully adapt to challenging times, overperforming our 2021 targets in terms of revenues, EBIT and net profit. Poste Italiane reported solid results increasing both versus 2020 and 2019. Furthermore, looking at the last 5 years, we have constantly overachieved strategic plan targets, with 2021 net profit almost doubled versus 2017. The industrial transformation started with the “Deliver 2022” plan and continued with “24SI” has now shifted the company to the next level, building on the Group’s integrated omnichannel distribution platform. Building on our parcel results, we are now diversifying our business to become a fully-fledged logistics operator, also through inorganic options such as the acquisition of Plurima, focused on the new fast growing hospital logistics niche market. Our digitally enabled new channels and B2B2C networks support solid new revenues’ growth. We have reached a significant 20 million average daily interactions, mainly coming from our new channels, including the PuntoPoste network, highlighting the great value generation potential embedded in our customer-base going forward. We recently launched new strategic initiatives, enabling us to revise upwards our 2022 targets. We have signed an agreement to acquire 100% of LIS to consolidate our growth in the proximity payment business and strengthen the acquiring and SME product offering, in line with the integrated omnichannel strategy at the heart of our Plan. We have successfully proven to face and overcome stress scenarios and we are in a better shape than many to navigate the current situation. With these remarkable results, we are proposing an increase of the dividend from €0.486 per share in the previous year to €0.59 per share this year, anticipating the dividend per share originally envisaged for 2022 and upgrading our generous dividend policy. In May of this year, Poste Italiane will celebrate its 160th anniversary. Our unique heritage has always allowed us to address today’s challenges and guide the future of our communities. We are a platform company, with a resilient and sustainable business for all stakeholders and we were, are and will be always present for communities across Italy.”

“2024 Sustain & Innovate” Strategic Plan

Mail, Parcel and Distribution

The strategic objective of Mail, Parcel and Distribution segment is to accelerate its transfor­mation from a pure mail operator to a full logistics operator, ensuring the economic and environ­mental sustainability of its operations. Implementation of the strategy is based on streamlining of the distribution networks, including the integration of Nexive, acquired at the end of 2020, consolidation of leadership in the B2C market and growth in the C2X and B2B segments through the introduction of specific offers and initiatives aimed at improving the customer expe­rience. From this point of view, the Plurima acquisition will reinforce the contract logistics segment. Through the implementation of these strategic directions, the segment aims to achieve operational break-even by 2024 and an operating profit in 2024.

FINANCIAL OBJECTIVE

  • Revenue: €3.9 billion (2019: €3.5 billion), with an increase in revenue from the Parcels segment and easing of the decline in the Mail segment.
  • Revenue from the Parcels segment: €2.0 billion (2019: €0.85 billion)
  • EBIT: operating profit eexpected by 2024.

operating objective

  • Double the volume of automatically sorted parcels.
  • B2C parcels market share: 38% by 2024.
  • C2X market share: 57% by 2024 (2019: 41%).

Payments and Mobile

The Payments and Mobile area aims to establish itself as a complete and omni-channel platform for its customers, flanking the traditional business lines of payments and telecommunications with an offer dedicated to Energy from 2022, a market which the company will enter by taking advantage of its liberalisation. From this point of view, the LIS acquisition will contribute further to the Group’s omni-channel strategy. The expansion of products, together with the ability to exploit physical and digital channels and third-party networks, will make it possible to fully exploit
cross-selling opportunities for customers, thereby increasing value for Poste Italiane as a whole.

FINANCIAL OBJECTIVE

  • Revenue:€1.9 billion (2019: €0.7 billion).
  • EBIT:€0.4 billion (2019: €0.2 billion), with CAGR of 1%.

operating objective

  • Expected Postepay Evolution portfolio of 11.6 million cards issued.
  • Expected card transactions as CAGR up 14%, to reach €2.7 billion.

Financial Services

Financial Services  aims to further evolve its service model by combining the traditional physical model with the opportunities provided by technological innovation. The priorities of the Strategic Plan include growth in wealth management, thanks to the diversification of customer portfolios to optimise their risk-return profile, the integration of non-life policies within the advisory model and a renewed focus on loans, with particular emphasis on the CQS segment, also thanks to partnerships signed with leading operators in the sector. The business related to the purchase of tax credits on building bonuses represents an opportunity to diversify the investment portfolio.

FINANCIAL OBJECTIVE

  • Revenue: €6.1 billion (2019: €5.8 billion). 
  • EBIT: €0.7 billion (2019: €0.9 billion). 
  • Common Equity Tier 1 Capital: 17%.

operating objective

  • Total financial assets: a rise to €615 billion from €569 billion in 2020, with increased penetration of life products.

Insurance Services

In Insurance Services Poste Italiane aims to establish itself as an insurance operator capable of serving all customers’ investment and protection needs. Poste Vita aims to confirm its position as leader in the life insurance sector, continuing to offer customers safe products that are both more profitable and more capital efficient. Lastly, the non-life insurance strategy envisages an increase in profitability thanks to the modular offer, supplemented by car insurance, provided to customers without assuming risk thanks to distribution agreements signed with leading Italian insurance companies.

FINANCIAL OBJECTIVE

  • Revenue: €2.7 billion (2019: €1.7 billion).
  • EBIT: €1.3 billion (2019: €0.8 billion). 
  • Net profit: 5% CAGR in the period 2019-2024.
  • Solvency Ratio: >200%.

operating objective

  • Gross premium revenue: €26.5 billion (2020: €16.7 billion). 
  • Double the average premium of the modular offer. 
  • 8.000 post offices enabled to sell car policies by 2024.