BASSETTI ( 1830 - 2001)

#Bassetti è uno storico marchio tessile italiano, che attualmente fa parte del Gruppo Zucchi.

Fu fondata nel 1830 a Milano dal sig. Carlo Baroncini come emporio per la vendita di tessuti. Nel 1864 nella società entrò Giovanni Bassetti (1851 - 1893), cugino del fondatore, che rilevò per intero l'azienda nel 1884, e il laboratorio di tessitura a mano di lino.

Alla morte di Bassetti, la ditta passò inizialmente in gestione alla vedova, Rosa Piantanida, e poi in gestione a due dei suoi tre figli, Ermete (1887 - 1974) e Felice (1889 - 1972). L'azienda vide trasformarsi da semplice bottega ad azienda industriale nel 1908, con la meccanizzazione dello stabilimento di Rescaldina, e nel 1914, creò altri stabilimenti la lavorazione del lino, del cotone e della canapa, a Trezzo d'Adda, Biassono e Revello.

Nel 1922 si trasformò in società anonima, e assunse la denominazione Giovanni Bassetti SA. Alla fine degli anni venti entrò nell'azienda, il figlio ultimogenito del Bassetti, Giannino, il quale portò innovazione all'azienda, creando magazzini e punti vendita in gran parte del territorio nazionale, e investendo sulla pubblicizzazione del marchio.

Al termine della seconda guerra mondiale, l'azienda, che cambiò nuovamente denominazione in Bassetti S.p.A., riprese le proprie attività produttive. Nel 1959 venne inaugurato e attivato un nuovo stabilimento, a Vimercate, e poi un altro sempre a Rescaldina nel 1964. Negli anni del boom economico, l'azienda lombarda, proseguì il proprio periodo di espansione, con la commercializzazione dei propri prodotti nei mercati esteri, soprattutto in Europa.

In quegli anni Bassetti divenne la più importante e conosciuta azienda tessile italiana, e contava oltre 2.400 dipendenti e 16 punti vendita in diverse città italiane.

Negli anni settanta, la Bassetti, da sola industria tessile si trasformò in un vero e proprio gruppo industriale di grandi dimensioni, attraverso l'acquisizione e l'inglobamento di altre aziende tessili, fra tutte il Lanificio e Canapificio Nazionale, e la diversificazione delle proprie attività, sviluppando importanti operazioni principalmente nei settori immobiliare e alimentare. Nel 1980, morì Giannino Bassetti, e la gestione dell'azienda passò ai figli Piero e Gian Sandro.

Contemporaneamente, per il Gruppo Bassetti, alla fine di tale decennio si verificò l'inizio della propria crisi finanziaria, causata da una pesante situazione debitoria che nel 1984 fu di 155 miliardi di lire. La FinBassetti, holding della famiglia Bassetti, che controllava tutte le società facente capo al gruppo milanese, fu perciò costretta a mettere in vendita diversi immobili e aziende, in particolare le più importanti, come il Linificio e Canapificio, il Cotonificio di Conegliano, Magnolia e Mascioni.

Nel luglio 1985, la famiglia Bassetti cedette l'azienda alla Marzotto. Ma alla fine dello stesso anno il gruppo tessile veneto cedette l'intero pacco azionario della Bassetti e lo storico stabilimento di Rescaldina alla Zucchi, storica concorrente nel mercato della biancheria da casa.

Sotto il controllo della famiglia Zucchi, l'azienda lombarda migliorò la propria situazione finanziaria e di mercato, e nel 1988 realizzò un fatturato di 126 miliardi di lire[6], mentre l'anno successivo fece ingresso nella Borsa. Nel 1990, acquisì l'intero capitale della Jalla, azienda francese produttrice di spugne.

Grazie al buon andamento avuto da Bassetti nel corso degli anni novanta (fatturato e utile netto, rispettivamente di 498 miliardi e 15,3 miliardi di lire nel 1995), viene decisa la fusione con la Zucchi, che avviene nel 2001, e da allora è uno dei più importanti marchi del nuovo Gruppo che si è costituito.

Nel 1994 viene fondata la Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, con lo scopo sia di diffondere la memoria di Giannino Bassetti, che di promuovere azioni di politica culturale per l'innovazione responsabile.
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MOTTA GELATI - since 1919

#MOTTA ICECREAM

The Motta S.p.To. it is an Italian firm of confectionery products and ice creams, founded in Milan in 1919 from Angel Motta.

The branch of firm that currently produces ice creams is of ownership of the Swiss multinational Nestlé, while the sector of the oven products and confectionery, that represent together the greatest volume of incomes, He has been acquired in 2009 by the firm Italian Trunks S.p.To.

 — a Milano.

PAVESINI

#PAVESINI

The pavesinis are of the biscuits produced by the Of Pavia ones since the 1945.

Mario Pavesi had started his/her own activity of confectionery production in 1937 to Novara and you/he/she had found a good reception from the public. Nevertheless during the second world war,

Buntings it dealt him with the alimentary provisionings of the army, factor that allowed him to know the tastes of the American people.

After a trip in the United States of America, Buntings it decided to transform the production of the historians "Biscottini of Novara" in that of the Pavesinis, produced of smaller cost and great digestibility.

FIORUCCI - since 1850

#FIORUCCI_Cesare

Cesare Fiorucci S.p.To. it is a food firm with center to Pomezia (RM) specialized in the sector of meats.
In 2011 you/he/she has been acquired by the food group Campofrio Food Group it Produces bagged of various kind (hams, mortadelle, salamis, wurstel etc.), cheeses and balmy vinegar.

The firm Fiorucci was founded in Rome in 1850 from a salumiere umbro, Innocenzo Fiorucci, native of Norcia, (the founder was designated more precisely as "norcino", or rather the popular term of origin umbra that mentions the handicraft salumiere that he works in the shop) to the beginnings you/he/she was constituted only from a small situated handicraft shop to Rome, in which the family Fiorucci worked during the winter; only subsequently, thanks to the success received after sometime and to the collaboration of Caesar Fiorucci, child of Innocenzo, others were opened from there in the capital.

Finished the Second world war, Caesar Fiorucci converted the firm of family to industrial level, founding in 1950 the industry Roman Meats and Similar (IRCA).

During the seventies the firm spread on the rest of the Italian territory, particularly to the North, while in the eighties expanded him also to international level, opening the leaves in France, United Kingdom, Germany and United States of America. In the meantime the IRCA changed denomination assuming that actual of Caesar Fiorucci S.p.to.

From 1992 to 1994, you/he/she has been sponsor of the FC Internazionale Milan In 2005 the fund Vestar Capital he has entered to belong to the capital of the Fiorucci acquiring a 65%.

In 2006 you/he/she has been on its way the process of reorganization of the group and riposizionamento on the market.
From 2013 it is the main sponsor of the Kick Catania.

Fiorucci is present in over 60 countries of the world, with a presence in the European distributive chains: Morrison and Coop in England; Leclerc, Intermarchè and Monoprix in France; El Court Inglès in Spain.
In more it possesses 4 societies checked in England, France, Germany and United States.

 — a Pomezia.

SACLA' - since 1939

#SACLA'

SACLÀ initials her it means "Society Anonymous Commerce Workmanship Alimentary." One of the first firms conserviere of the Piedmont is born from the entrepreneurial idea of Secondo "Pinin" Ercole: to use, during the season of the harvest, the productive excess of vegetables typical of the astigiano and to turn her into a preserved product, to consume in every moment of the year.

Founded in 1939 to Asti, city where everything now has center, Saclà started to develop under the guide of
her founders, Secondo "Pinin "Ercole and his wife Piera Campanella, that, initially they devoted him to the production and commerce of vegetable preserves in Piedmont, for then to widen the distribution in Italy.

Distillation years '40 In the fifties begin to also grow the number of the consumers of products Saclà thanks to the numerous innovations introduced in firm and on the market. They follow in the years: the cork twist off, the pasteurization, the first olives pitted in envelope, etc.

You Saclà is leader of market and as such you/he/she has not only been pioneer in the field of the Search & Development, but also in advertising field:
she has been the first firm conserviera to communicate and to promote her image near the consumers. Who doesn't remember, in the sixties, the television jingle of the carousel, that recited: "Olivolì, Olivolà, Olivolì, Olive Saclà!".

In the years '70 Saclà launches the Acetellis, a line of pickles characterized by a smaller acidity that, today she is used still as synonym of the amplest market category of the pickles.
In the years '80 continue the attention of the firm for products of quality and the wish to widen the offer of the products: they are born so the seasonings for pasta to long maintenance (I crush, assembled red juices, etc) that, a few years later, they will be of fundamental importance for the development of the foreign market. The years '90 are the period for Saclà of the consolidation of the position reached in Italy, maintaining the leadership in the compartment of the pickles, of the olives and of the sottolis and launching new products.

In the same period Saclà opens to the foreign market with a different offer of products in comparison to the Italian market: seasonings for pasta (mainly I crush and red juices uht) respectful of the most traditional Italian recipes.

The success of the ready juices Saclà doesn't delay to arrive and is such to be brought to the opening of three branches: in the United Kingdom, in France and in Germany. Saclà is today still a family firm driven from the second and from the third generation of the family Ercole; it is leader in the market of the olives, of the pickle and of the sottolio and it exports his/her own ready seasonings for pasta (I crush, red juices, etc) in over 40 countries of the world.

 — a Asti.

PERFETTI

#PERFETTI it has origin to Lainate from the small activity of production of candies of August Perfect; his/her children Ambrogio and Egidio sold the products of the shop in the district.

In 1946 the Perfect brothers brought the activity of family to an industrial dimension founding the Dolcificio Lombardo, a firm with 50 employees that after few years it changed name in Perfect SpA. In the years of the Italian economic boom the Perfect ones was the first firm to produce chewing gum, brought in Italy by the American soldiers during the war and whose consumption was in strong growth; in 1969 it launched the chewing gum Brooklyn, that, also thanks to an effectiveness advertising country conceived by Daniel Oppi, reached a 90% market quota.

From the end of the seventies numerous new marks (Alpenliebe, Vigorsol, Happydent, Big Babol) were born, I made popular by the publicity. In the eighties the firm began to grow for external lines, acquiring Caremoli (with the mark Golia) in 1986, Gelco (Goleador) in 1987 and You Julia in 1991; the expansion to the foreigN countries began from Mediterranean (Greece and Turkey) Europe for then to tighten commercial accords with Van Melle, strong in the North Europe and to the east, whose following developments were the entrance in the azionariato and finally the acquisition in the 2001.

 — a Lainate.

AUTOGRILL

#AUTOGRILL

Autogrill is an Italian-based, multinational catering and retail company, the world's largest in the travel dining sector, which is controlled with a 59% stake by the Edizione Holding investment vehicle of the Benetton family.
Autogrill runs operations in 40 different countries, primarily in Europe and North America, with over 250 licensed and proprietary brands. Over 90% of the company's business derives from outlets in airport terminals and motorway service areas.

Autogrill was founded in 1977 when SME, a division of Italian state-owned conglomerate Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI), purchased then merged Italian restaurant groups Motta, Pavesi and Alemagna. Pavesi had begun to operate a service area on the Milan-Novara motorway in 1947, replacing it with a bridge structure accessible by travellers in both directions fifteen years later.

Having grown both domestically and through foreign acquisitions, Autogrill was privatised by the Italian Government in 1995 as IRI shed its food and beverage businesses. 

Edizione Holding, the financial holding company of the Benetton family, acquired a controlling stake through the process.

Edizione floated the company on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1997, sparking a series of acquisitions in overseas markets: by the end of 1998, Autogrill had secured full control of French operator Sogerba (previously owned by Granada Group);] AC Restaurants and Hotels of Benelux[10] as well as 14 branches of the Wienerwald chain in Austria and Germany.
In July 1999 the group made its first entry into both the United States and airport concession markets[8] by acquiring Host Marriott Services, which was then renamed HMSHost.
Other major acquisitions by the group included the Swiss firm Passaggio (completed in 2001), 70% of high-speed train station operator Receco in 2002, Spanish-based airport duty-free retailer Aldeasa in 2005 (50-50 with Altadis) and Belgium's Carestel (completed in 2007).
Autogrill acquired the remaining 50% in Aldeasa for complete control in 2008. It also purchased Alpha Group and World Duty Free in 2008 and merged them with Aldeasa in 2011 to create a super-retailer at Airports.
In 2010, it had €785 million in sales in the United Kingdom and €494 million in sales in Spain.

 — a Novara.

ALEMAGNA

#ALEMAGNA is a famous Italian confectionery industry.

Alemagna was founded to Melegnano (MI), from Gioacchino Alemagna (1892 -1974) in the 1921. In 1925 him you open a coffee and, in 1933, the famous cafe-confectionery in Plaza of the Cathedral in Milan.
It was however his/her child Alberto, in the years forty-fifty to magnify the fatherly activity, the mark of the firm making the Cathedral in Milan stylized, that the bond of the firm made with the chief town explicit lombardo famous. They were those the years when he was developing another famous mark the competing Motta.

In the years '60 of the economic boom establishments were opened to Cornaredo and Naples, numerous shops monomarca in Italy and a conspicuous number of Truck stop on the Highways.

The incorporation in SME Youcrisis that struck the Alemagna at the end of the sixties induced the ownership to surrender the 50% of the stock packet to the SME, of the group IRI, that the Motta had already noticed. - MILAN

AGIP - since 1926

#AGIP (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli—General Italian Oil Company) is a former Italian automotive gasoline, Diesel, LPG, lubricants, fuel oil, and bitumen retailer established in 1926. It has been a subsidiary of the multinational petroleum company Eni. In 2003, Eni acquired Agip Petroli S.p.A., creating the Refining and Marketing Division (R&M).

Sinclair Oil was a U.S. oil company that, with the Italian Ministry of National Economy in 1924, reached a fifty-year agreement for which both companies were issued a permit to conduct oil research in Emilia-Romagna and in Sicily, for an area of 40,000 km ². Sinclair and the Italian ministry constituted a joint enterprise; 40% of the capital was the ministry's property, all expenditure incurred by Sinclair Oil and 25% of profits to the Italian ministry. The agreement was judged to cause serious damage to the nation and the opposition, headed by Giacomo Matteotti and Don Sturzo, started a controversy which aligned the suspicion of corruption; Matteotti indeed had prepared a speech on this issue for June 12, but was killed two days earlier. Don Sturzo continued the controversy, stating in a public company was the only way for a national energy independence.
Coal in Italy was scarce and of poor quality. It was imported from abroad at prices that seriously weighed on currency balance and limited industrial growth. Power plants, which were not very developed and mainly concentrated in the north of the country, could not satisfy the needs of energy.

An Agip petrol station in Novara
With a royal decree on April 3, 1926, the government of the Kingdom of Italy ordered the establishment of the Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (Agip), in the conduct of all activities relating to industry and the commerce of petroleum; the company was created in the form of joint stock companies. The share capital was given for a 60% from the Department of the Treasury, for a 20% by Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA) and the remaining 20% by the Social Insurance. The first president was Ettore Conti, contractor in the electricity sector. The establishment of the company was attributed by many analysts to Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, Ministry of Finance, and Joseph Belluzzo, Ministry for the national economy. Volpi di Misurata, however, was directly involved in oil-related interests, working together with Fiat of Giovanni Agnelli, and with the financial backing of Banca Commerciale Italiana, which had searched for oil in Emilia-Romagna, unsuccessfully. In 1927 the Mining Act was issued, which gave the ownership of the subsoil to the State and imposed the rule that any oil-related activity was subject to authorization and / or government grant.
It experienced difficulties after the crisis of 1929, but began to flourish in the 1930s. In 1933, a new law was issued in the field of protectionist refineries and Agip could operate with greater ease in this area.

Agip had a facility for refining at Fiume and in 1936 it took over a refinery at Porto Marghera, owned by Volpi di Misurata. Soon after it made an agreement with Montecatini for the creation of the joint enterprise Anic (Fuel Hydrogenation National Company), which was to pursue the derivation of fuel by hydrogenation of brown coal. Then Anic built two refineries to process the oil extracted in Albania from Azienda Italiana Petroli Albanesi (AIPA), a subsidiary of Agip. However the Albanian oil was of poor quality and its processing proved uneconomical.

Simultaneously, however, because of the costs to support colonial campaigns, Agip had to give up to continue in some foreign investment, in particular it had to abandon their exploration campaigns in Iraq. It was the explorer Ardito Desio who found oil in Libya and in 1939 came the so-called "Petrolibia operation", in which Agip was linked to Fiat, with which the year before it had created an Italian company for synthetic fuels who wanted to explore the possibility of obtaining gasoline from synthetic chemistry.

 — presso Italia.

INNOCENTI (1947 - 1997)

#INNOCENTI (1947 - 1997)

Innocenti was an Italian machinery works originally established by Ferdinando Innocenti in 1920. Over the years they produced the famous Lambretta scooters as well as a range of automobiles, mainly of British origins. The brand was retired in 1996, six years after a takeover by Fiat.

After World War II, the company was famous for many years for Lambretta scooters models such as LI125, LI150, TV175, TV200, SX125, SX150, SX200, GP125, GP150 and GP200.

From 1961 to 1976 Innocenti built under licence the BMC (later the British Leyland Motor Corporation, or BLMC for short) Mini, with 998 cc and 1,275 cc engines, followed by other models, including the Regent (Allegro), with engines up to 1,485 cc. The company of this era is commonly called Leyland Innocenti. The Innocenti Spyder (1961–1970) was a rebodied version of the Austin-Healey MKII Sprite (styling by Ghia). The car was produced by OSI, near Milan. In 1972 BLMC took over control of the company.

In 1972 the company's land, buildings and equipment were purchased by British Leyland in a deal involving approximately £3 Million. The British company had high hopes for its newly acquired subsidiary at a time when, they reported to the UK press, Italian Innocenti sales were second only to those of Fiat, and ahead of Volkswagen and Renault: there was talk of further increasing annual production from 56,452 in 1971 to 100,000. However, the peak production under BLMC was 62,834 in 1972, in spite of exports increasing from one ) car in 1971 to over 17,000 in 1974. Demonstrating their ambitions, the British company installed as Managing Director one of their youngest UK based senior executives, the then 32-year old former Financial Controller Geoffrey Robinson. Three years later BLMC ran out of money and was nationalised by the UK government.

In 1975, the company passed to Alejandro de Tomaso and was reorganised by the De Tomaso Group under the name Nuova Innocenti. However, with the loss of the original Mini, the Austin I5, and the (admittedly slow-selling) Regent, sales were in freefall. Production was nearly halved in 1975 and were down to about a fifth of the 1974 levels in 1976. After this crisis, however, the new Bertone-bodied Mini began selling more strongly and production climbed to a steady 40,000 per annum by the end of the seventies. The first model had Bertone-designed five-seater bodywork and was available with Leyland's 998 cc and 1,275 cc engines.
Exports, which had been carried out mainly by British Leyland's local concessionaires, began drying up in the early eighties as BL did not want to see internal competition from the Innocenti Mini. Sales to France (Innocenti's biggest export market) ended in 1980, with German sales coming to a halt in 1982.

Around the same time, the engine deal with Leyland ended - with production soon dropping into the low twenty thousands. Later models, from model year 1983 on, used 993 cc three-cylinder engines made by Daihatsu of Japan. De Tomaso developed a turbocharged version of this engine for Daihatsu which found use in both Innocenti's and Daihatsu's cars.

In addition to building their own cars, De Tomaso also had Innocenti use their factory capacity in producing bodywork for and providing final assembly of the Maserati Biturbo, Quattroporte, and the Chrysler TC by Maserati. As production kept decreasing, and prices vis-à-vis competing Fiat products increased, Innocenti attempted to stay relevant by adding ever higher and more individual equipment. Innocenti kept building their own cars until 1992. Beginning in 1990, when Fiat took over, Innocenti also sold Yugo's Koral and Brazilian-imported versions of the Fiat Uno (Elba station wagon and Uno Mille) in the Italian market.
The marque ended when sales of these rebadged models came to a halt in 1996.

 — a Milano.