The wholesale agro-food markets of Milan have a fundamental function; the correct formatting of wholesale prices; to give value to local products; fighting against the high costs of living thanks to the fact that it also opens to the public; To improve the quality of the products; the care of food safety for the inhabitants; in the activities of internationalization and for the Import of products from the world and for the development of exports of Italian quality products.

SO.GE.M.I, has singled out the strategies for the development of Markets that subtend their own industrial plan, keeping in mind that modern wholesale agro-food centres essentially work like concentration platforms and have the important function of promoting quality and food safety and the strategic development of a valid alternative for the marketing of food products like, e-commerce and the commodity exchange.

Food safety, the research of transparency in the offer and the demand of products that will guarantee the correct format of wholesale prices, but will also consider any possible commercial synergy between the different goods compartments and the optimization of the internal logistic, are other elements in which the strategic development is based on and pursed by SO.GE.M.I.

Carrying out the industrial plan will cause outstanding investments of structures for the overall modernization of Markets. SO.GE.M.I, has already started the creation of the logistic platforms equipped with refrigerated areas that allow appropriate working for the transformation and packing of food of the products in structurally protected areas, in order to preserve the organoleptic features that are useful for guaranteeing quality and for a better food guarantee for consumers.

Even a different organization of the shifting of goods will be adopted in the market area; different internal and external road networks of the wholesale Markets of Milan will be adopted too, with important positive relapses on the town road network.

Another target followed by SO.GE.M.I, is the enlargement of the range of available products in the Markets and the adoption of new delivery methods of goods in the city and respect for the environment and therefore the life quality. The realization of an excellence pole of oenology, or rather of a commercial exhibition area, services for the most fine Italian and foreign wine products and to add value to regional products is what this plan intends to do.

In the Markets, an adjustment of the overall waste management is being carried out and it stretches out to increase selective items for recycling.

Particular attention to energy saving will be made and also to renewable energy, through the scheduled restoration of the roofs of the pavilions and the installation photovoltaic panels.