Meal vouchers as a lever for well-being and savings for workers and businesses of all sizes. Welfare Pellegrini has been supporting businesses for 60 years.

Meal vouchers represent a key lever for well-being and savings for companies and workers: a direct way to increase the perceived value of wages without increasing labor costs. This tool is even more important in a context like the Italian economy, characterized by a widespread network of small and medium-sized enterprises. According to the OECD, real wages in Italy were 7,5% lower at the beginning of 2025 compared to 2021. This data highlights a significant weakening of the purchasing power of Italian workers, making it increasingly urgent for companies to find effective solutions to support their employees' incomes.

In this scenario, meal vouchers prove to be a concrete and advantageous tool. For employees, because the value of meal vouchers is not added to taxable income and therefore not subject to taxation. For companies, because they are fully deductible instruments that do not involve additional social security contributions, thus allowing savings and reducing labor costs. Welfare Pellegrini meal vouchers therefore offer a daily benefit to workers, without negatively impacting the company budget.

For over 60 years, Pellegrini has been committed to people's well-being and works alongside businesses to develop personalized, accessible, and sustainable welfare solutions, even for small and medium-sized businesses. Through intuitive digital platforms and a dedicated consulting service, Welfare Pellegrini designs customized solutions, simplifying every phase of meal voucher management—from distribution to reporting—with the goal of improving employee satisfaction and productivity.

"Welfare is no longer a matter reserved for large companies," explains Morad Giacomelli, Head of Digital Marketing at Pellegrini. "Today, even SMEs can activate digital meal voucher and shopping voucher solutions as easily as they manage their mail or accounting. In a historical period where the purchasing power of Italian workers is severely affected, meal vouchers can at least partially address the problem. These tools improve workers' quality of life and, at the same time, generate a tangible economic return for the company: in terms of tax, reputation, and attractiveness as an employer. Smart corporate welfare tools like these represent a sustainable way to support workers and enhance people, the true capital of every business."

Pellegrini, founded in 1965 by Ernesto Pellegrini, Knight of Labor, and now led by Valentina Pellegrini, President and CEO, is a company that provides services to businesses, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutions, both in Italy and abroad. In 2024, it reported revenues of €1 billion and has 11 employees, distributed across its offices in Milano, Rome, Mendrisio (Switzerland), and numerous contracts around the world. The company's business—whose research, development, and training activities are coordinated by the Pellegrini Academy, a center of excellence—is based on four activities: Catering and Vending, Welfare Solutions, Cleaning, Sanitization, and Integrated Services, Food Supplies, and Fresh Meat Processing. This year, Pellegrini celebrates its sixtieth anniversary and is a partner of the Jubilee for the management of the "Gli Amici del Pellegrino" hospitality network, as well as the 24th Triennale International Exhibition. Milano Dedicated to the theme of 'Inequalities,' a collective project that, through exhibitions, installations, special projects, and events, explores global challenges related to differences in various areas of life: from geographic origin to gender, from economic power to food accessibility and a long and healthy life expectancy. Since 2014, the company has supported the Ernesto Pellegrini Foundation, whose first initiative was the creation and management of the Ruben charity restaurant. www.gruppopellegrini.it