In the General Development Plan 2006/2011 worked out by the City of Milan and in accordance of the policy pointed out by the mayor Letizia Moratti, SO.GE.M.I. Has singled out the strategies of development for the settlement of its own industrial plan, pivoted on the requirement that a modern wholesale agro -food centre operates essentially like a concentration platform able to carry out an important role in the advancement of quality and food safety and in the strategic development of valuable alternatives for the marketing of food products as for example, the data transmission trade and commodity exchange.

In order to adjust the organization and the current operative structures of the wholesale Markets to the new commercial requirements, SO.GE.M.I, has already launched the production of logistical platforms equipped with refrigerated areas that allow an appropriate function of work processing and manufacture, transformation and packaging of products.

Another aim of SO.GE.M.I is the enlargement of the product range available in the Markets and the adoption of a new method for delivering retail. The Milanese Markets will acquire, more and more, the feature of a multimodal platform, in which not only major and more qualified services will be supplied to the users, but also innovative logistical solutions, aimed to make the transaction of the supply of goods easier in the urban area with respect for environment therefore life quality.

In this field SO.GE.M.I actuated a first intervention concerning the making, in the market area, of an oenology excellence, that is, an commercial and exhibition area, and services for the most fine Italian and foreign vine- wine products and to increase the enhancement of regional products. The project also intends to the development of diversified sale, like e-commerce, bookings, on-line auctions, and a delivery system inside the urban area with vehicles with low environmental impact.

Even a different organization of the shifting of goods inside the market area will be carried out and a different structure if the internal and external road networks of Milan's Wholesale Agro-food Market, with an important positive relapse for the town's road network. The restoration of a broad area named "truck area" and the construction of a new beltway that connects the to Highway that will allow the company to change and rationalize the accessibility to the Markets, adopting new traffic solutions that allow a specific canalization for trucks in order not to interfere with normal urban traffic.

Managing urban waste in a correct manner establishes a further important data for the strategy of development pursued by SO.GE.M.I. The company

Is ongoing the adjustment of a system for the total management of waste in the Markets that stretches out to achieve 50% sorted waste in the first year and to increase this percentage in the years to come, with a substantial reduction of undifferentiated waste and recyclable materials and reusable ones, for example, pallets, cardboard, plastic, wood and organic.

SO.GE.M.I also pursues a strategy of development of Markets that is very attentive to energy saving, resorting to renewable energy by restoring the shingles of pavilions and at the same time installing photovoltaic panels. Such a project will lead both to the reduction of energy costs and the creation of, for city of Milan, the most important innovative laboratory for the use of clean energy.

In the overall industrial plan that will imply the make over of the markets into a modern logistical agro-food platform a first phase of this has been developed with a joint-effort of important institutions of the " The Food and Health City -Milan food Village".

This project, whose development will be taken care of by supervised SO.GE.M.I, FOOD LTD, represents the excellence platform in the agro-food field by virtue of the assignment of Expo 2015 in Milan.