Italy is the seventh European country for the number of employees in controlled American companies. In the United States, there are 1,826 active Italian investors who have shares in 3,519 companies in the U.S., 3,187 of which are controlling interests, supporting around 260,000 jobs and taking in $143.7 billion.

These are some of the data that stand out in the study entrusted by the Embassy of Italy in Washington to the University of Brescia, under the responsibility of Prof. Marco A. Mutinelli, who specializes in research on multinational companies.