Italy’s Frugal Pharma Billionaire Eyes Place Among Global Leaders in Drug Injection Devices

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  • Family company has longtime commitment to keeping debt down
A worker at one of Stevanato’s facilities.Source: Stevanato Group
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If you got a Covid or flu shot this winter, the vaccine may well have come out of a vial made by Stevanato Group SpA, one of just a handful of Italian firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

All it took to get there was “a 30-year startup phase,” said Franco Stevanato, the company’s frugal, self-effacing executive chairman, who opens the door himself to greet reporters visiting Stevanato Group’s offices in Milan.