GIRMI - since 1919

#GIRMI is an Italian firm of small appliances of the Group Bialetti Industrie.
The origins of the firm go up again to 1919, when to Omegna (VB), on initiative of six partners, the Cooperative was founded her Subalpina, that began with the production of home and articles for perfumeries and hairdressers.

In 1940 the cooperative was acquired in full by the sig. Mario Caldi, one of the partners founders. At the end of the second world war, the activities of the enterprise, that it counted 45 employees with the production of objects, were taken back for the toelettatura and for the bath. Charles Caldi, child of the precedent, entered the direction de you Subalpina. After his/her trip of wedding that did in the United States in 1949, made to specialize his/her enterprise in the reproduction of small appliances purchased by the same Heats in the North American country.

In 1954 the Piedmontese firm launched the Flutter, first blender of Italian production, to which followed the grinder Mokaro (1956) and the blender Girmi (1957). This last received an important commercial success, so much that his/her name (been born as contraction of the words "it turns" and "mixture"), in 1961 it became the name of the renamed firm Girmi - You Subalpina S.p.To., while ten years later the social reason simply Girmi S became.p.To..

Girmi him well soon as leader technologically to the state-of-the-art one and appreciated by the public for their design and the innovatività. The maximum period of expansion was reached in the eighties, when Girmi counted 440 employees, and in that period you/he/she was surrendered Allegheny Technologies to the U.S. citizen.

In 1989 the firm was noticed by the Moulinex. Under the French (besides in crisis from many years) ownership, for the Girmi it began a negative period, characterized by the diminution of the exports and the profits. In 1994 the firm returned of Italian ownership, when you/he/she was noticed by a rope of entrepreneurs driven by Adolfo Carulli. The stock capital was so divided: 85 percent belonged to the society Covers in Rome, while the remainder 15 were held from the Popular Bank of Intra.

In 2004 the Girmi is said in full by the Bialetti Industrie of Coccaglio (BS), manufacturing business group of home and small appliances of ownership of the family Ranzoni. Since then over whether to be one checks of it, Girmi it is also a mark of the Group bresciano.
To the actual state, the historical establishment cusiano, that occupied 280 employees in the seventies, is a simple office that deals him with the distribution of the products to mark Girmi, whose production happens in the foreign establishments.