AZIMUT-BENETTI GROUP: At the Genoa Boat Show, the company presents all of its new offerings for the 2011/2012 boating season.
Ten new models, expansion of the range of services, and an important certification awarded by RINA for adopting the management system for occupational health and safety pursuant to BS OHSAS 18001.

The company pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of Italian unification with a commemorative model, Azimut 62S Italia, and celebrates the opening of the Genoa Boat Show in the company of Italian rugby champions, symbol of the tenacity and the talent for attaining goals that characterises the company.
With a fleet of 24 boats, the Azimut-Benetti Group  is in Genoa, site of o­ne of the most important international boat shows that is not to be missed. Today, the company presented a broad range of important innovations, which underscore its dynamism and drive in reaching the most ambitious of goals.
After introducing four new yachts at the last boat  show in Cannes, the company chose this Ligurian city as the stage for the debut of an additional six new models: the Atlantis 38, the Azimut 60, the Azimut 62S Italia, the Azimut 88 MY 2011, the Azimut Grande 100, and the  Benetti Crystal 140, bringing to ten the number of new offerings for the 2011-2012 season.
The  area of megayachts  under the Benetti and Azimut Grande brands is experiencing a period of extraordinary success, as evidenced by an order book of considerable heft.
In this specific market segment, the Group is showing two models in Genoa that are particularly noteworthy: the Azimut Grande 100 and the Benetti Crystal 140.
The  Azimut Grande 100, the splendid new offering in the eponymous line,  contains all the features of the Group’s planing megayachts. It constitutes a new flybridge, which gives shape to the desires of boat owners for ever more unique, tailor-made products.
Maximum versatility, great attention to privacy, and building quality that benefits from Benetti’s decades of experience are the hallmarks of this new boat, which joints the line's flagship, the Azimut Grande 120SL, presented in Cannes in September.
Light, transparency, and enhancement of spaces, o­n the other hand, characterise the essence of the  Benetti Crystal 140, the new boat in the Benetti Class line, which finds the fundamental reasons for its name in the interiors,  where outstanding distribution of spaces guarantee comfort and extreme brightness thanks to the way in which the interior volume of the hull was exploited. The yacht moreover offers advanced technological solutions, such as the integrated wheelhouse and a home-automation system that simultaneously manages music, video, alarms, and climate control.
With regard to  services, the Genoa Boat Show was chosen to announce the forthcoming unveiling of the Group’s second Styling Lounge in Viareggio, which will be the new, essential point of reference for Benetti boat owners. In perfect harmony with the brand’s philosophy, this space contains the best of everything that boat owners could desire when it comes to customising their yachts and enriching them with sophisticated, high-quality details and accessories. Boat owners can browse in a variety of areas in order to make their yachts unique in every detail: from the most sought-after, exclusive o­n-board linens to the most sophisticated, elegant porcelain and crystal, from the finest fabrics and leathers to the most original, precious decorative objects.
The brands o­n offer represent the top of the line for their sectors. Among others: Rubelli, Christofle, Missoni Home, Richard Ginori, Versace, Rainaud Limoges, Poltrona Frau, Artemide, Baccarat, Loro Piana, Rosenthal, Nasonmoretti, Ercuis, and Armani Casa.
The Benetti Styling Lounge, the most recent initiative launched by the division responsible for developing and managing boat owner services worldwide, is joined by the recent debut of the Yachtique Concierge Club. Unique in the boating world, the Club is reserved for Azimut-Benetti boat owners, who will be able to avail themselves of 5-star assistance service 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. This includes reservations for restaurants, car rentals, and private chefs;
purchases and deliveries of food; real-time information about any issue relating to boating; and a broad range of price reductions o­n boating services, such as fuel purchases, insurance policies for winter storage, engine tune-ups, and the supply of tenders.
Other new products include the lively  Atlantis 38, super-dynamic and easy to handle, the comfortable  Azimut 60, a flybridge that superbly captures the strategic  dimensions of 18 metres, and the Azimut 88 MY 2011, which, with its character of a large yacht, offers spaces that have been well divided and exploited, a hallmark of maximum privacy.
Last but not least, the Azimut 62S Italia, the commemorative model dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, is, just like its namesake, distinguished by verve, elegance, and class.
The introduction of all of these new models was accompanied by a delightful moment of the show involving several Italian rugby champions, a sport that symbolises the determination to reach the "goal", which has always been an attitude inspiring the Group.
In this joyful context, Azimut-Benetti is extremely proud to announce that it has received BH OHSAS 18001 Certification from RINA. Azimut-Benetti is the world's o­nly builder of pleasure boats that to date has received this certification  for multiple sites, having implemented a management system for occupational health and safety at the facilities in Avigliana, Savona, and Viareggio, which by 2013 will cover 100% of the production facilities.
Azimut-Benetti is the leading and most prestigious  builder of mega yachts in the world. Operating in 68 countries worldwide through a network of 138 sales offices, the Group includes the prestigious brands Azimut Yachts, Azimut Grande, Benetti, and Atlantis, with each o­ne catering to a distinct segment of the yacht market. The Group also includes Yachtique, the service division exclusively dedicated to boat owners, also headed by brokerage and chartering
specialists, Fraser Yachts.