B2B prospect lists for Italy.

01  The Italian market

Twenty regions, from the Alps to Sicily

Italy had an estimated 58.94 million residents on 1 January 2026, according to ISTAT, the national statistics institute. They live in 20 regions: Lombardy (10.07 million, capital Milan), Lazio (5.71 million, Rome), Campania (5.57 million, Naples), Veneto (4.86 million, Venice), Sicily (4.78 million, Palermo), Emilia-Romagna (4.48 million, Bologna), Piedmont (4.26 million, Turin), Apulia (3.87 million, Bari), Tuscany (3.66 million, Florence), Calabria (1.83 million, Catanzaro), Sardinia (1.55 million, Cagliari), Liguria (1.51 million, Genoa), Marche (1.48 million, Ancona), Abruzzo (1.27 million, L'Aquila), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (1.19 million, Trieste), Trentino-Alto Adige (1.09 million, Trento), Umbria (0.85 million, Perugia), Basilicata (0.53 million, Potenza), Molise (0.29 million, Campobasso) and Valle d'Aosta (0.12 million, Aosta). Trentino-Alto Adige is made up of the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano. A prospect list can be scoped to one region, several neighbouring regions or the whole country.

Industrial and manufacturing: Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont

ISTAT's register of local units counted 3.86 million people working in manufacturing in 2023 (annual average). Lombardy had 919,000, Veneto 556,000, Emilia-Romagna 468,000, Piedmont 359,000 and Tuscany 313,000. Fabricated metal products employed 613,800, including 173,500 in Lombardy and 94,000 in Veneto. Machinery employed 493,700: Lombardy 137,500, Emilia-Romagna 110,600 and Veneto 86,200. Motor vehicles and parts employed 158,700, of whom 44,900 were in Piedmont, 24,600 in Lombardy and 18,100 in Emilia-Romagna, with further clusters in Abruzzo (11,600), Campania (11,600) and Basilicata (7,900). Electrical equipment employed 147,400.

Energy and environmental technology: southern wind, solar, Alpine hydro

Italy's transmission grid operator reports gross electricity production of 277,078 GWh in 2025, of which 132,329 GWh came from renewable sources. Wind produced 21,535 GWh, mostly in the south: Apulia 6,072 GWh, Sicily 3,802 GWh, Campania 3,538 GWh and Basilicata 2,620 GWh. Solar produced 45,001 GWh, led by Apulia (5,168 GWh), Lombardy (5,061 GWh) and Lazio (4,947 GWh). Renewable hydropower produced 41,972 GWh, with Lombardy (10,157 GWh), Trentino-Alto Adige (9,282 GWh) and Piedmont (6,557 GWh) ahead of the other regions. All 5,644 GWh of geothermal power came from Tuscany. Electricity, gas and steam supply employed 85,000 people in 2023, of whom 18,200 were in Lombardy and 11,600 in Lazio.

Pharma and life sciences: Lombardy, Lazio and Tuscany

Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 64,100 people in 733 local units in 2023. Lombardy had 24,000 in 255 units and Lazio 11,400 in 102, followed by Tuscany (6,300), Veneto (5,400) and Emilia-Romagna (4,400). Chemicals employed another 113,300, of whom 45,900 were in Lombardy.

Food and agriculture: from the Po Valley to the south

Food manufacturing employed 424,700 people in 53,000 local units in 2023: Lombardy 65,300, Emilia-Romagna 62,700, Veneto 42,700, Campania 38,500 and Piedmont 34,500. Beverages added 41,000, of whom 8,100 were in Veneto. ISTAT estimates that on 1 December 2025 Italy had 5.38 million cattle, including 1.54 million in Lombardy and 0.75 million each in Veneto and Piedmont, and 7.84 million pigs, of which 3.81 million were in Lombardy. Campania held 309,000 of Italy's 435,000 buffaloes, and Sardinia held 2.92 million of its 5.91 million sheep.

How an Italian list is built

Choose your unit, describe what you sell and name the regions you want covered, or the whole country. Nexfield works through all 56 sub-sectors of your unit and returns only companies that are probable buyers, never your competitors. Each row comes with region, city, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company belongs on your list.