The Group Holding is based in Milan where Coeclerici is a partner in projects to improve and maintain green areas and urban enhancement. In particular, the company supported the renewal and renovation of city flowerbeds, including the one in Piazza Cairoli, in front of Castello Sforzesco.

The Group also participated in the innovative LED lighting project for the historic Poldi Pezzoli museum, sponsoring the work in 3 rooms dedicated to Alfonso Clerici, the company founder, and Urbano Rattazzi and Alfonso Menada, the two historic partners and vice presidents.

The gardens in Via Martin Piaggio, with which Coeclerici pays tribute to Genoa, were inaugurated in December 2019, thus celebrating the memory of Jack Clerici, a historic Genovese ship owner and entrepreneur, and a key player in the development of the maritime and commercial sectors of the city. The gardens have a surface area of about 800 square metres. The vegetation planted includes about 1,100 bushes of 56 different species, all labelled, with shrubs of several sizes and features. The gardens are not only formative and informative but they also have an air purifying function – the plants are of the ‘smog-eating’ type.

Coeclerici entirely financed the restoration work and staging of a new hall in the Galata Museo del Mare (Marine Museum). Sala Coeclerici hosts the Navigare nell’Arte (Sailing in Art) exhibition, which offers a selection of 60 works donated to the museum and chosen from the more than 250 works of the Collezione Marittima (Maritime Collection) of the Fondazione Paolo e Giuliana Clerici, one of the most important in the whole of Europe on seafaring topics.

The room, which includes a teaching area for children and an example of a ‘tactile picture’ for visually impaired visitors, has been visited by more than 297,000 people since its inauguration in June 2018. As a result of the digitalisation project, the Navigare nell’Arte exhibition can be visited on the Virtual Tour 360° platform.

Access to the Terrazza Coeclerici, a splendid open panoramic space used for conferences and cultural events, is next to the room.

The ‘La Storia della marineria Italiana’ (History of Italian Seafaring) initiative, in 4 volumes of which 2 have already been published, arose from the collaboration between MUMA and the Fondazione Paolo e Giuliana Clerici. The work retraces the fascinating voyage of Shipping in Italy.

The Coeclerici Group has single-handedly funded the project to restore and showcase Sala dell’Annunziata in the Cloister of Sant’Agostino, an important area of the convent dating back to the sixteenth century in Pietrasanta. Today it is the prestigious home to the Luigi Russo Centre, with premises dedicated to exhibitions and events.

Concluded in 2023, it involved complex restoration work on frescoes dating back to the early seventeenth century, as well as installing new air conditioning and lighting systems, renewing furnishings with the addition of 100 extra seats and the use of multimedia and internet connection equipment, in order to place a welcoming yet practical site back in the hands of the public.

The project required funds totalling 350,000 Euro overall, of which more than 90,000 for the first stage in 2020-2021, and more than 260,000 to complete the work.

In September 2021, the Coeclerici Group joined the charity initiative promoted by Active for Good to fight child malnutrition in developing countries. 179 Group employees, organised in 22 teams, competed in 60 sports, taking part in a team-building programme with a dual purpose – to stay active and healthy and donate meals for malnourished children.

The calories burnt during sustained physical activity were monetised and converted into packages of lifesaving therapy food for children with Severe Acute Malnutrition, which affects children between 6 months and almost 5 years of age with extremely low weight in relation to their height.

Every year, Coeclerici allocates part of the coal extracted from the mine to local communities, contributing a response to the population’s daily requirements, especially of employees and the retired work force. Just in the last year, 1,549 tonnes of coal was allocated to employees and 855 tonnes to the retired work force.