In this context of continuous growth, De’ Longhi has been running for years a managerial support programme that has been involving hundreds of managers based in the headquarters, in foreign subsidiaries and in production plants: initially called “U-Connect”, the programme has evolved into a new phase characterized by a focus on teams management, being renamed “WeMake” and maintaining the experimental laboratory formula that had already characterised the first phase of the programme (for more details see the box “WeMake - Shaping together our future”).