Founded in 1974 by a companies group and the main Mantuan Associations and banks, Mantova Export nowadays numbers 180 associated companies. The Mantova's associated companies are grouped according to their field of activity: agricultural equipment and machines, clothes and accessories, electronic and electrotechnical articles, furnishing, industrial products, building, cosmetics, foods tuffs, household articles, industrial products, machines and plants, paintbrushes, sport and leisure articles equipment, toys, vehicles, accessories and parts, wood and zootechnical products. On the web site, for each company you can see companies' address and contacts.

The import export companies association offers a wide range of qualified services regarding import & export aspects:
> global market research: search for customers, sale agents and distributors;
> import-export advice: european import export consulting, import export information, import export market information, foreign trade consulting;
> marks and patents: european trademark advice, european community trademark, trademark research and information, european patent advice, marks and patents research, registered marks services, marks registration;
> european trader advice: intrastat advice, combined nomenclature consulting, transport and international payments, foreign trade consulting, foreign laws, foreign trades, foreign legislation researches, financial aspect import export, documents for import-export;
> linguistic support company for translations, interpreting service and teleconference phonecalls.

On the site, in the "How to Associate" section you can find information on how to become member and the advantages of being member. In the "News & Events" section you can find the main international exhibitions and meetings organized by Mantova Export and in the "Search & Offer" section it's possible to enter brief announcements. In the “Useful links” section you can find a list of web sites that all the companies that need import export consulting must visit.