A business lesson from a winning visionary
Marcello Fantuzzi (Newcast) meets young people
«Like me, there are only two or three in the world: Silvio, Flavio and I also need Steve Jobs", where the other two are, respectively Berlusconi and Briatore. Said by any one, it could appear the shot of a crazy megalomaniac. But if it is Marcello Fantuzzi, 37 years old, who pronounced it, the founder of Newcast Service, a company that started in 2003 with a turnover of 1,700 euro and reached 2 million 460 thousand just six years later, before the crisis put it back in the position of around one million 700 thousand euro in 2014: if it is one that pronounces it so much, therefore, there is little to think about. Especially in the context in which Fantuzzi threw it there: a meeting of young people (in this case, about thirty girls and boys) with a young entrepreneur, promoted to the Mac'è Youth Space! the Employment Centre, in collaboration with the Youth Policy Department, as part of the "Working together" project. With this in mind, the head of the Centre for Employment, Grazia Giurato, pointed out that "...to create opportunities for young people to communicate with companies and institutions in order to understand the new needs of the world of work". And also, added Councillor Milena Saina, "...to defeat the attitudes of resignation, showing that there is the crisis, but there are also companies such as Marcello Fantuzzi.
That it is precisely from the crisis that it started, to dismantle its self-absorbing effects and the alibis it could have on young people, rather exalting subjectivity, will and hope. "We are in crisis, okay, so what? It cannot end everything: the crisis must only teach us to live the best". And to give substance to the concept, he recalled his beginnings: "After six months that I started the Newcast, at 24, I was with the house of my parents, mother and father housewife, mortgaged for 340 thousand euros. At that moment - he stressed - the only thing I could not afford was to fail.»
Now, Newcast Service, for those who don't know it, is a leading company for Carpi that, thanks to the merger of two heads like Fantuzzi, who trained at Corni as a graphic operator, and his partner Matteo Mantovani, a materials engineer, has extended prototyping to the production of small series or unique pieces, dealing with engineering for a wide range of sectors, from automotive to biomedical, including packaging mechanics, household appliances and automatic machines. The experience in the automotive field was expressed, among other things, in the design of a welding cabin and a revolutionary electro bike, the Ncycle, designed by an Albanian designer who works with the Automotive Style Centre in Newcast, also chosen for a new tractor model that the Chinese of Foton Lovol decided to produce in the Goldoni plants, in Migliarina. In addition to the design, prototyping and engineering sector, which represent the historical core of Ncs, the company has developed Ncs lab at the forefront of the study and treatment of materials, and Ncs Rapid inside, which deals with components for cars and motorcycles racing, also sponsoring the Rapid Inside Racing Team, a motorcycle stable.
All this, however, remained in the background in Fantuzzi's lectio - which called on several collaborators to tell about their experiences at the company. Young among young people, histrionic enough and also indulging in youthful gergamist feelings, the entrepreneur preferred to insist on the method, on the work philosophy, on the gratifications that derive from the well done, on distinguishing himself from the "frustrated" who resign themselves to reducing prices and on the "villains" who impose it (or do not pay their own), starting from the postulate that the price is always and in any case too high. American lesson, one could say: a message in style "The Apprentice", but more true and convincing and, above all, with a smile.