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Lanificio Carlo Reda e figli (Carlo Reda and Sons Woolen Mill) was founded in 1865 [1] [2] in Valle Mosso, in the Province of Biella, by entrepreneur Carlo Reda, who started the company from an old mill. The company was carried forward by his son Giovanni until Luigi Botto took over in 1919.
The fabric mill in the 1940s. Vitale Barberis Canonico (VBC) is an Italian fabric mill that was established in 1663. [1] It is located in Pratrivero, about 50 miles northeast of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. [2] The company has remained a family-owned business for 13 generations. [3]
Zegna's attention to wool quality continued through 1960s and 1970s, as the company established the Wool Awards in Australia (1963) and the Mohair Trophy in South Africa (1970). [11] [12] The international development strategy run by the Zegna brothers brought to the openings of the first owned boutique in Paris in 1980, followed by Milan in ...
As a member of the nobility, Luigi Marzotto (1773-1859) founded a wool mill in Valdagno in 1836 with a capital of 2 000 Venetian Lira, equivalent to $100 000 in the nineties. [1] He handed the business to his son Gaetano in 1842. After the unification of the kingdom of Italy in 1861, Gaetano bought a spinning factory nearby Maglione. By then ...
Fratelli Piacenza in Pollone. Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A. is an Italian fabric mill and family business established in 1733. [1] [2] Fratelli Piacenza has been accepted as a member house in the Henokiens (French: Les Hénokiens), an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more.
A boutique in Madrid, Spain, 2022. Originally from Trivero, the Loro Piana family started as merchants of wool at the beginning of the 19th century. [3] In the second half of that century, the family moved its activity to Valsesia and founded the wool spinning mill Fratelli Lora e Compagnia, followed by the wool spinning mill Zignone & C. in Quarona at the beginning of the 20th century. [3]
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In June 2014, American Woolen purchased the Warren Mills complex from Italian luxury apparel group Loro Piana SpA, [7] which had owned and operated the mill for 26 years. Recognized as being "on par with the best mills in Europe," [ 1 ] Stafford Springs, Connecticut based Warren Mills is American Woolen Company's headquarters where the company ...