Aerospace and defense

• Aermacchi
  Aermacchi
  Alenia Aermacchi is an Italian company designing and producing trainer aircraft for military pilots.-Profile:Alenia Aermacchi has sold about 2,000 trainers to more than 40 countries and has collaborated in major international military programs....
  
   (aircraft
  Aircraft
  An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
  
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• Alenia Aeronautica
  Alenia Aeronautica
  Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica subsidiary, is a European aerospace company from Italy. Its subsidiaries include Alenia Aermacchi and Alenia Aeronavali...
  
   (aerospace engineering)
• Agusta
  Agusta
  Agusta is an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It is based in Samarate, Northern Italy. It is a subsidiary of Finmeccanica. The company was founded by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923, who flew his first airplane in 1907...
  
   (helicopter
  Helicopter
  A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...
  
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• Cab-Bertola (aerospace-aircraft engineering manufacturers)
• Finmeccanica
  Finmeccanica
  Finmeccanica S.p.A. is an Italian conglomerate. Finmeccanica is the second largest industrial group and the largest of the hi-tech industrial groups based in Italy. It works in the fields of defence, aerospace, security, automation, transport and energy...
  
  
• Fiocchi Munizioni
  Fiocchi Munizioni
  Fiocchi Munizioni is one of Italy's largest and oldest manufacturers of ammunitions.The Company's headquarters and main production plant are in Via Santa Barbara in Lecco, Italy.-History:...
  
  
• Gio. Ansaldo & C.
  Gio. Ansaldo & C.
  Ansaldo was one of Italy's oldest and most important engineering companies, existing for 140 years from 1853 to 1993.-From foundation to World War I:...
  
  
• Microtecnica
• Oto Melara
  Oto Melara
  Oto Melara is an Italian defence company with factories in Brescia and La Spezia. It was founded in 1905 as a joint venture of Vickers and Terni. During World War I, Vickers Terni produced many weapons with calibre 40 mm and upwards. In 1929 the company was renamed Odero Terni Orlando with the...
  
  
• Piaggio Aeronautica
  Piaggio Aero
  Piaggio Aero Industries is an aircraft manufacturing company born from the former Rinaldo Piaggio SPA, an Italian company. The company is one of the world's oldest airplane manufacturers, and its planes have been well known from the early days of aviation history.Today, Piaggio Aero Industries is...
  
  
• Partenavia
  Partenavia
  Partenavia Construzioni Aeronautiche was an Italian aircraft manufacturer from 1957 to 1989.-History:The company was formed shortly after the war by Professor Luigi Pascale of Naples University. Pascale had designed and flown a number of designs, in 1957 a factory was acquired at Arzano. Partenavia...
  
   (aircraft)
• Savoia-Marchetti
  Savoia-Marchetti
  -History:The original company was founded in 1915 as SIAI . After World War I gained the name Savoia, when it acquired the Società Anonima Costruzioni Aeronautiche Savoia, an Italian aircraft company founded by Umberto Savoia in 1915.The name Marchetti was added when chief designer Alessandro...
  
   (aircraft)
• SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems
  SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems
  SELEX Galileo is a major defence electronics company that specialises in surveillance, protection, tracking, targeting, navigation and control, and imaging systems. It is owned by the Italian company Finmeccanica....
  
  

Airlines

• Alitalia
  Alitalia
  Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. , in its later stages known as Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. in Extraordinary Administration, was the former Italian flag carrier...
  
  
• Air Dolomiti
  Air Dolomiti
  Air Dolomiti S.p.A. Linee Aeree Regionali Europee is an Italian regional airline with its head office in Dossobuono, Villafranca di Verona, Italy. It is a partner of Lufthansa Regional linking 13 Italian destinations to the Lufthansa secondary hub Munich, as well as operating a few other flights in...
  
  
• Air Italy
  Air Italy
  Air Italy S.p.A. is an airline based in Gallarate, Italy, operating scheduled services for tour operators within Europe, to Brazil and Kenya, as well as independent short-haul flights...
  
  
• Air One
  Air One
  Air One "Smart Carrier" is Alitalia's LCC subsidiary based in Milan Malpensa Airport and headquartered in Fiumicino, Italy. Before the merger with Alitalia, Air One was a competitor, the second largest airline in Italy, with a high-frequency scheduled network to 36 destinations in Italy, Europe and...
  
  
• Blue Panorama
• Eurofly
  Eurofly
  Eurofly was a privately owned airline based in Milan, Italy. Listed on MTA Stock Exchange and controlled by Meridiana, it was Italy’s leading carrier in leisure flights market and mainly operated international, medium to long haul, point-to-point flights....
  
  
• Livingston Energy Flight
• Meridiana
  Meridiana
  Meridiana fly is an airline with its head office on the grounds of Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy. It is Italy's second largest airline operating domestic and European services, as well as intercontinental flights. The airline mainly operates out of Cagliari-Elmas Airport,...
  
  
• Mistral Air
  Mistral Air
  Mistral Air srl is a cargo airline based in Rome, Italy. It operates scheduled cargo services on behalf of TNT Global Express and Poste Italiane. It also undertakes flight training...
  
  
• Neos
  Neos
  Neos S.p.A. is an airline based in Somma Lombardo, Italy, operating leisure flights to Southern Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle and Far East, the Caribbean, Mexico and Brazil, most of which are out of Malpensa International Airport.- History :...
  
  
• Volare Airlines
  Volare Airlines
  Volare S.p.A., as Volareweb.com, was a low cost subsidiary of the old Alitalia-LAI. Its head office was located in Area Tecnica Sud of Terminal 1 of Milan-Malpensa International Airport, in Ferno, Varese, Italy, and it ceased activity with this name since 12 January 2009...
  
  
• Windjet
  Windjet
  Wind Jet S.p.A., also styled as Windjet, is a scheduled and charter passenger airline based in Catania, Italy. It was founded in 2003, following the disbandment of Air Sicilia, by current CEO Antonino Pulvirenti, also owner of football team Calcio Catania...
  
  

Automobile manufacturers

• Fornasari
  Fornasari
  Fornasari is an Italian car manufacturer that was created in 1999 by Giuseppe Fornasari. The company makes sports cars and SUVs.Model lineup:* Fornasari RR450, a two-door SUV mounted with a Chevrolet engine with 450 hp, Speed , 0-100 km/h in 4.5 sec...
  
   (sports cars)
• Iveco
  Iveco
  Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicle Corporation, originally an alliance of European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Fiat , Unic and Magirus. Iveco is now an Italian truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin...
  
   (trucks and industrial vehicles)
• Innocenti
  Innocenti
  Innocenti was an Italian machinery works originally established by Ferdinando Innocenti in 1920.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...
  
  
• Isotta Fraschini
• Lamborghini
  Lamborghini
  Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini , is an Italian car manufacturer. The company was founded by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with established offerings from marques like...
  
   (road and race cars)
• Lancia
  Lancia
  Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage. Some modern Lancias are seen as presenting a more...
  
   (road and race cars)
• Maserati
  Maserati
  Maserati is an Italian luxury car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters is now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993...
  
   (road and race cars)
• Menarini
  Menarini
  The Menarini Group is an Italian pharmaceutical company. It was founded in Naples, Italy, in 1886, and has three divisions: Menarini Ricerche, Menarini Biotech and Menarini Diagnostics. It is committed to the search for pharmacological solutions for such therapeutic areas as cardiovascular...
  
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• Minardi
  Minardi
  Minardi was an automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans...
  
   (race cars)
• Moretti Motor Company
  Moretti Motor Company
  Moretti Motor Company is a now defunct automobile manufacturer formerly based in Italy. It was founded in 1925 and ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Today, many of its sportscar models can still be found at various European auto shows...
  
   (road cars)
• Nardi
  Nardi (carmaker)
  Ufficine Nardi was an Italian automobile and racing car maker, named for their creator.Enrico Nardi was a racing mechanic, engineer, and driver who got his start with Lancia. He test drove the first car built by Auto Avio Costruzione in Modena, where many ex-Lancia colleagues joined him.In 1932,...
  
   (road and race cars)
• Osella
  Osella
  Osella is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former Formula One team based in Volpiano near Turin, Italy. They participated in 132 Grands Prix between 1980 and 1990...
  
   (race cars)
• Pagani
  Pagani
  Pagani Automobili S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of sports cars and carbon fibre. The company was founded in 1992 by Horacio Pagani, and is based in San Cesario sul Panaro, near Modena, Italy.-History:...
  
   (road cars)
• Pininfarina
  Pininfarina
  Pininfarina S.p.A. is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder in Cambiano, Italy.Founded as Società anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in 1930 by automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina, Pininfarina has been employed by a wide variety of high-end automobile manufacturers,...
  
   (car body styling, prototypes)
• Qvale
  Qvale
  Qvale was an independent Italian car manufacturer founded in 2000 by the American Kjell Qvale's son, Bruce Qvale. Qvale's sole product was the Mangusta, originally the De Tomaso Biguà. Kjell Qvale founded British Motors in 1947 in San Francisco, California and is very well known in the automotive...
  
   (road cars)

Automotive designers

• Bertone
• Boano
  Mario Boano
  Felice Mario Boano was an Italian automobile coachbuilder.With Giorgio Alberti, he bought the Carrozzeria Ghia in Torino when their friend Giacinto Ghia died...
  
  
• Boneschi
  Carrozzeria Boneschi
  Carrozzeria Boneschi S.r.L. is an Italian coachbuilder, mainly of commercial vehicles. Until 1960, the company was mostly involved with automobile manufacturers such as Talbot, Rolls Royce, Alfa Romeo, Lancia and Fiat. It was established in Milano by Giovanni Boneschi, moving to Cambiago in...
  
  
• Carcerano
• Castagna
  Carrozzeria Castagna
  Carrozzeria Castagna is an Italian coachbuilding company from Milan. The company history startsin 1849 when Carlo Castagna bought the Ferrari coachbuilding business. In the end of 1800 was made first coach to automobile with...
  
  
• Fioravanti
• Frua
  Pietro Frua
  Pietro Frua was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and car designers during the 1950s and 1960s.-Early years:...
  
  
• Ghia
  Carrozzeria Ghia
  Carrozzeria Ghia SpA is one of the most famous Italian automobile design and coachbuilding firms, established by Giacinto Ghia and Gariglio as Carrozzeria Ghia & Gariglio, located at 4 Corso Valentino in Turin....
  
  
• Giugiaro
  Giorgetto Giugiaro
  Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automobile designer responsible equally for a stable of supercars and several of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today...
  
  
• I.DE.A Institute
  I.DE.A Institute
  I.DE.A Institute is an automobile design and engineering company in Turin, Italy, founded in 1978...
  
  
• Italdesign Giugiaro
  Italdesign Giugiaro
  Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A is an automobile design and engineering company based in Moncalieri, Italy founded in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani as Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi S.p.A...
  
  
• Marazzi
  Carrozzeria Marazzi
  Carrozzeria Marazzi is an Italian coachbuilding company founded in 1967 and is located in Caronno Pertusella, outside Milan.The company was established by Carlo Marazzi and employees from the then bankrupt Carrozzeria Touring of Milan...
  
  
• Pininfarina
  Pininfarina
  Pininfarina S.p.A. is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder in Cambiano, Italy.Founded as Società anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in 1930 by automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina, Pininfarina has been employed by a wide variety of high-end automobile manufacturers,...
  
  
• Scaglietti
  Carrozzeria Scaglietti
  Carrozzeria Scaglietti was an Italian automobile design and coachbuilding company active in the 1950s. It was founded by Sergio Scaglietti in 1951 as an automobile repair concern, but was located across the road from Ferrari in Maranello outside Modena, Italy.Scaglietti gained Enzo Ferrari's...
  
  
• Stola
  Stola
  The stola was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga, or the pallium, that were worn by men.Originally, women wore togas as well, but after the 2nd century BC, the toga was worn exclusively by men, and women were expected to wear the stola...
  
  
• Touring
  Carrozzeria Touring
  Carrozzeria Touring is an automobile coachbuilder established on March 25, 1926 in Milan, Italy by Felice Bianchi Anderloni and Gaetano Ponzoni...
  
  
• Vignale
  Vignale
  Vignale was an Italian automobile coachbuilder company. Carrozzeria Alfredo Vignale was established in 1948 at Via Cigliano, Turin by Alfredo Vignale in Grugliasco, near Turin ....
  
  
• Zagato
  Zagato
  Zagato is a design consultancy and engineering services company situated just outside Milan, Italy.The company's premises occupy an area of , of which are covered....
  
  
• Nova Design Europe

Automotive suppliers

• AGV
  AGV (helmet manufacturer)
  AGV SpA. is an Italian motorcycle helmet firm, founded by Gino Amisano , which started out in 1946 making leather seats and motorcycle saddles. A year later, in 1947, it started making motorcycle helmets...
  
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• Alcantara SpA (coverings)
• Alessio (wheels)
• Alientech (chiptuning)
• ANSA (exhaust systems)
• Bieffe (helmets)
• Berco (tracked vehicle
  Tracked vehicle
  A tracked vehicle is a vehicle that runs on continuous tracks instead of wheels...
  
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• Borletti (automobile components and sewing machine
  Sewing machine
  A sewing machine is a textile machine used to stitch fabric, cards and other material together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies...
  
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• Brembo
  Brembo
  Brembo S.p.A. is a manufacturer of automotive brake systems, especially for high-performance cars and motorcycles. It was established in Bergamo, Italy in 1961. Soon after the company was formed, it specialised in disc brakes, which were exclusively imported from the United Kingdom at the time...
  
   (automotive braking systems)
• Carello (automobile components)
• Fiamm
• Fondmetal
  Fondmetal
  Fondmetal is a Italian wheel manufacturer, founded by Gabriele Rumi.It also was a Formula One constructor from 1991 through 1992, as well as a Formula One engine supplier in 2000 and sponsor of several teams throughout this period...
  
   (wheels)
• Landi Renzo
  Landi Renzo
  Landi Renzo S.p.A is a multinational company headquartered in Cavriago, Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Landi produce autogas and compressed natural gas kits for cars....
  
   (alternative fuel systems)
• Magneti Marelli (automobile components)
• Marangoni (tires)
• Momo
  MOMO (company)
  MOMO Srl is a design company headquartered in Milan, Italy that makes accessories and parts for automobiles.- Company history :MOMO was founded by gentleman racer Giampiero Moretti in the 1960s. MOMO are the initials for Moretti-Monza. Monza is a region in the Province of Milan.In 1969 MOMO opened...
  
   (racing accessories)
• MSW (wheels)
• Nava (helmet
  Helmet
  A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries.Ceremonial or symbolic helmets without protective function are sometimes used. The oldest known use of helmets was by Assyrian soldiers in 900BC, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from...
  
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• Nolan
  Nolan
  Nolan is a surname, of Irish origin from Ó Nualláin , with alternate spellings including Nolen, Noland, Nolin, and Nalon, and may refer to:-Surname:* Albert Nolan , South African Roman Catholic theologian...
  
   (helmets)
• OMP (racing wear)
• O.Z.Racing (wheels)
• Pirelli
  Pirelli
  Pirelli & C. SpA is a diverse multinational company based in Milan, Italy. The company, the world’s fifth largest tyre manufacturer, is present in over 160 countries, has 20 manufacturing sites around the world and a network of around 10,000 distributors and retailers.Founded in Milan in 1872,...
  
   (tires)
• Sabelt (racing accessories)
• Sparco
  Sparco
  Sparco S.p.A is an Italian auto part and accessory company headquartered in Settimo Torinese, Turin, Italy that specializes in producing items such as seats, steering wheels, harnesses, racewear and helmets. Sparco branded alloy wheels are produced under licence by OZ Group...
  
   (racing wear)
• Speedline (wheels)
• Suomy
  Suomy
  Suomy is an Italian brand of motorcycle helmets. Suomy's product line largely consists of high-end race helmets. They sponsor many of the world's top motorcycle racers, including Troy Bayliss , Max Biaggi , Loris Capirossi , James Toseland , Alvaro Bautista and Neil Hodgson .Suomy is known for...
  
   (helmets)
• Veglia (automobile components)
• Vitaloni (automobile components)
• VM Motori
  VM Motori
  VM Motori S.p.A. is a diesel engine manufacturing company in Cento, Italy, in Emilia-Romagna, an Italian region which is also home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and Ducati.- History :...
  
   (diesel engines)
• Weber (automobile components)

Beer

• Menabrea
• Birra Messina
• Forst
• Ichnusa
  Birra Ichnusa
  Birra Ichnusa, or simply Ichnusa, is the name of a popular Sardinian-made beer, which is brewed in Assemini, a town near the Sardinian capital Cagliari. It is named after the Latinized ancient name Sardinia, Hyknusa....
  
  
• Birra Moretti
• Nastro Azzurro
• Peroni
  Birra Peroni
  Peroni Brewery , is a brewing company, founded in Vigevano in Lombardia, Italy in 1846. It is now based in Rome and is owned by SABMiller....
  
  
• Pedavena
• Wührer
  Wührer
  Wührer is a surname , and may apply to:*Friedrich Wührer, an Austrian-German pianist*Kari Wührer, an American actress...
  
  

Bicycle manufacturers

• Basso
  Basso (bicycles)
  Basso bicycles is an Italian manufacturer of hand made road bicycles, founded in 1977 by the three Basso brothers, Marino, Renato and Alcide.Marino Basso was the world professional road-racing champion in 1972, winning the race in Gap, in the south of France....
  
  
• Bianchi
• Bottecchia
  Bottecchia
  Bottecchia Cicli S.r.l. is a bicycle manufacturing company headquartered in Cavarzere, Italy. They offer about 70 models that include road, mountain, trekking, city, BMX, folding, cyclo-cross, and electric. Some high-end frames are produced in Italy, the rest in Asia, and all the bikes are...
  
  
• Cinelli
  Cinelli
  Cinelli is an Italian bicycle manufacturing company based in Milan, Italy, producing mostly road bicycles and components; production is estimated at 80 percent components, 20 percent bicycles.- History :...
  
  
• Colnago
  Colnago
  Colnago is a manufacturer of high-end road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago in 1954 near Milano in Cambiago, Italy. Instead of following his family's farming business Ernesto Colnago chose to work in the cycle trade, apprenticing first with Gloria Bicycles at 13, subsequently taking up...
  
  
• De Rosa
  De Rosa (bicycles)
  De Rosa is the family brand of Ugo De Rosa. De Rosa's company became renowned during the late 1960s and 70s for manufacturing road racing bicycles.- History :Company founder Ugo De Rosa was born on January 27, 1934 in Milan, Italy...
  
  
• Guerciotti
  Guerciotti
  Guerciotti are an Italian company that produce cyclocross, road, time trial, track and mountain bikes. Their top racing bikes "exemplify the Italian racing bicycle paradigm".-History:...
  
  
• Liotto
• Pinarello
  Pinarello
  Cicli Pinarello S.p.A. is an Italian bicycle manufacturer in Treviso, Italy. It supplies mostly hand-made bicycles for road racing, track racing and cyclo-cross.-Models:-Montello SLX:...
  
  
• Scapin
• Sintesi
• Tommasini
• viner
• Wilier Triestina
  Wilier Triestina
  Wilier Triestina is an Italian manufacturer of racing bicycles, founded in 1906 by Pietro Dal Molin in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. They are now based in Rossano Veneto, Italy....
  
  
• Montante Cicli

Coffee machines and producers

• Alessi (coffee machines)
• Bialetti
  Alfonso Bialetti
  Alfonso Bialetti was an engineer who became famous for acquiring Luigi De Ponti's invention of the simple yet elegantly designed Moka Express coffeemaker. Designed in 1933, the coffee pot has been a style icon since the 1950s...
  
   (coffee machines)
• Bezzera (espresso machines)
• Caffe Mauro (coffee
  Coffee
  Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
  
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• Caffe Moak
• DeLonghi
  DeLonghi
  De'Longhi Group, or De'Longhi S.p.A, is a major European small appliance manufacturer based in Treviso, Italy.- History and trading :...
  
   (coffee machines)
• Faema
  Faema
  FAEMA primarily engaged in the production of espresso machines, was founded in 1945 by Carlo Ernesto Valente, in Milan, Italy....
  
   (espresso
  Espresso
  Espresso is a concentrated beverage brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee. Espresso is widely known throughout the world....
  
   machines)
• Gaggia
  Gaggia
  Gaggia is an Italian company that makes coffee machines, especially espresso and cappuccino machines, in addition to small kitchen appliances...
  
   (espresso machines)
• gb (coffee machines)
• Hausbrandt (coffee)
• Illy
  Illy
  illycaffè is a brand of coffee produced in Trieste, Italy.illy produces only one blend in three roast variations: normal, dark roast, and decaffeinated. The blend is packaged as whole beans, pre-ground coffee, E.S.E. pods, or iperEspresso Capsules....
  
   (coffee)
• La Nuova Era (espresso machines)
• TORREFAZIONE CAFFÈ KRIFI (coffee)
• Kimbo (coffee)
• La Pavoni (espresso machines)
• La San Marco (espresso machines)
• Lavazza
  Lavazza
  Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of coffee products. Founded in Turin in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza, it was initially run from a small grocery store at Via San Tommaso 10. The business of Lavazza S.p.A. is currently administered by the third and fourth generation of the Lavazza family.-...
  
   (coffee)
• Mazzer (coffee grinders)
• Miscela d'Oro (coffee)
• Mokarabia (coffee)
• POLTI
  Polti
  Polti may refer to:* Team Polti, an Italian cycling team* Georges Polti, a French author...
  
   (espresso machines)
• Rancilio
  Rancilio
  Rancilio is an espresso machine manufacturer, founded in 1927 by Roberto Rancilio in Parabiago, Milan, Italy. Rancilio would become best known for its innovative distribution networks, effective use of industrial design and reputable reliability....
  
   (espresso machines)
• Saeco
  Saeco
  Saeco is an Italian manufacturer of espresso machines and other electrical goods, head quartered near Bologna.-History:The company was founded by Sergio Zappella and Arthur Schmed in 1981....
  
   (espresso machines)
• Segafredo (coffee)

Construction

• Astaldi
  Astaldi
  Astaldi SpA is a major construction company based in Rome, Italy. The group is active in the fields of civil, hydraulic, electromechanical and environmental engineering, and transportation and infrastructure.-History:...
  
  
• Caltagirone
  Caltagirone
  Caltagirone is a town and comune in the province of Catania, on the island of Sicily, about 70 km southwest of Catania. It is bounded by the comuni of Acate, Gela, Grammichele, Licodia Eubea, Mazzarino, Mazzarrone, Mineo, Mirabella Imbaccari, Niscemi, Piazza Armerina, San Michele di...
  
  
• EFFEPI s.r.l.
• Impregilo
  Impregilo
  Impregilo S.p.A. is an Italian-based construction and civil engineering business headquartered in Milan. The company was founded in 1959 and, through mergers, has grown to become the leading Italian engineering and general contracting group in the construction and environmental sectors...
  
  
• Mapei
  Mapei
  MAPEI is an Italian company founded in 1937 by Rodolfo Squinzi in Milan, Italy. It evolved from a small wall paint producer into a worldwide producer of adhesives, thinsets and sealants for buildings ....
  
  
• Pereso
• Todini

Cosmetics

• Bottega Verde
• Collistar
• Deborah
• Diego della Palma
• I Provenzali
• L'erbolario (beauty products)
• Pupa

Designers

• Giorgio Armani
• Cesare Attolini
  Cesare Attolini
  Cesare Attolini Napoli is a prestigious tailoring house.The Company was originally founded by Vincenzo Attolini in Naples in the 1930s.Vincenzo's style combined classic and modern. The company is today named after Vincenzo's son Cesare and is run by grandsons Giuseppe and Massimiliano...
  
  
• Renato Balestra
  Renato Balestra
  Renato Balestra , is an Italian fashion designer.Renato Balestra is an Italian fashion designer. However, he first started studying civil engineering....
  
  
• Rocco Barocco
  Rocco Barocco
  Rocco Barocco, born in Naples, Italy in 1944 is a Fashion designer.His real name is Gennaro Muscariello. After his first steps in the fashion industry he legally changed his name and surname to Rocco Barocco....
  
  
• Benetton Group
  Benetton Group
  Benetton Group S.p.A. is a global luxury fashion brand, based in Treviso, Italy. The name comes from the Benetton family who founded the company in 1965. Benetton Group is listed in Milan....
  
  
• Laura Biagiotti
  Laura Biagiotti
  Laura Biagiotti is an Italian high fashion designer. She studied literature in Rome, expecting to become an archeologist. Then she started to help out at Mum and Dad's dressmaking business and had her first fashion show in 1972...
  
  
• Enrico Carlucci
• Marcoliani
• Bruno Bellini
• Borbonese
• Borsalino
  Borsalino
  Borsalino is the name of a hat company known particularly for its fedoras. Established in 1857, Borsalino produces felt from Belgian rabbit fur at its factory in Alessandria, Italy....
  
  
• Brioni
• Canali
  Canali
  Canali is a clothing company based in Italy specialising in men's clothing.-History:In 1934, the brothers Giovanni and Giacomo Canali founded a tailoring workshop dedicated to the manufacture of high quality clothing. In the 1950s, with the contributions of the family's second generation, sales...
  
  
• Caraceni
  Caraceni
  Caraceni was founded in Rome in 1913 by the father of Italian tailoring, Domenico Caraceni. At one point in the 1930s, Domenico and his family operated ateliers in Rome, Milan and Paris. The Paris atelier was operated by Domenico's brother, Augusto, who closed his atelier when Mussolini declared...
  
  
• Roberto Cavalli
  Roberto Cavalli
  Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer from Florence.-Biography:Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence, Tuscany. His grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, was a member of the Macchiaioli Movement, whose work is exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery. Cavalli decided to enroll at the local Art Institute,...
  
  
• Roberto Coin
  Roberto Coin
  Roberto Coin is a high-end brand of Italian jewellery and watches. The company was founded and based in Vicenza, Italy.-History:Founded in Vicenza in 1977, Roberto Coin was first established by its eponymous creator to produce for internationally acclaimed jewelry brands...
  
  
• Cerruti 1881
  Cerruti 1881
  Cerruti 1881 is a brand of the famous fashion house Cerruti founded in 1967 in Paris by the Italian stylist and fashion producer Nino Cerruti.The Cerruti house designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails luxury ready-to-wear, jeans, fragrances, sportswear, leather goods, watches, and accessories...
  
   (Nino Cerruti
  Nino Cerruti
  Nino Cerruti is an Italian businessman and stylist, among the most famous in the world.He founded his own haute couture house Cerruti in 1967 in Paris...
  
  )
• Corneliani
  Corneliani
  Corneliani is an Italian clothing manufacturer best known for its suits and sportcoats. The house style is less aggressive than Brioni but more structured than "soft" Neapolitan tailors such as Kiton.-Lines:...
  
  
• Diesel S.p.A.
• Dolce & Gabbana
  Dolce & Gabbana
  Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....
  
   (Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana)
• Enrico di Rosso
• Etro
  Etro
  Etro is an Italian fashion house and manufacturer of fabrics, furnishings and fragrances. It was founded in 1968 by Gimmo Etro. It is still a family business, with menswear headed since 1990 by Kean Etro, while his sister, Veronica, directs womenswear...
  
  
• Fendi
  Fendi
  Fendi is an Italian high fashion house best known for its "baguette" handbags. It was launched in 1925 as a fur and leather shop in Rome, but today is a multinational luxury goods brand owned by LVMH...
  
  
• Ferragamo
  Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A.
  Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. is an Italian luxury goods company, with headquarters in Florence, specializing in shoes, leather goods, and ready-to-wear for men and women. It is the parent company of the Ferragamo Group...
  
  
• Fiorucci
  Fiorucci
  Fiorucci is an Italian fashion label founded by Elio Fiorucci in 1967. The first shop exposed Milan to the styles of Swinging London and American classics such as the T-shirt and jeans. By the late 1970s and early 1980s this would be reversed, and the New York store would become famous for the...
  
  
• Salvatore Ferragamo
  Salvatore Ferragamo
  Salvatore Ferragamo was a Florentine and Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. His scientific and creative approach to shoes spawned many innovations such as the wedge heel...
  
  
• Gianfranco Ferré
  Gianfranco Ferrè
  Gianfranco Ferré was a fashion designer also known as "the architect of fashion" for his background and his original attitude toward creating fashion design....
  
  
• Alberta Ferretti
  Alberta Ferretti
  Alberta Ferretti is an Italian fashion designer and dressmaker. She designs for Alberta Ferretti and Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti. Her showroom is in Milan, Italy but her studio is in the picturesque village of Cattolica, near Rimini, Italy....
  
  
• Elio Fiorucci
• Sorelle Fontana
• Nazareno Gabrielli
• Kiton
  Kiton
  Kiton is a clothing company founded in 1968 in Naples, Italy by Ciro Paone. It opened its US$40 million New York flagship and showroom on East 54th Street in 2004, it also opened a shop in London. Like many other fashion brands, Kiton has diversified to include sportswear, footwear, fragrances,...
  
  
• Krizia
  Krizia
  Krizia is a manufacturer and designer of handbags and clothes, founded by Mariuccia Mandelli in 1950 in Bergamo, Italy.Various Krizia labels are created every year like menswear, knitwear, handbags, and perfume...
  
  
• Bruno Magli
  Bruno Magli
  Bruno Magli is an Italian shoemaker, designing and handcrafting high-quality luxury shoes and accessories.-History:After learning the art from their grandfather, Magli and his siblings Marino and Maria started crafting women's shoes in a small basement in Bologna, Italy, in 1936. In 1947, the first...
  
  
• Massimo Rebecchi
• Marni
  Marni (clothing)
  Marni is an Italian fashion label founded by Consuelo Castiglioni in 1994, who remains as the label's designer.-History:The fashion line started in 1994, when Castiglioni became known for her contributions to the design of fur, stemming from her husband's family fur business...
  
  
• Missoni
  Missoni
  Missoni is an Italian fashion house based in Varese. It is famous for its unique knitwear, made from a variety of fabrics in colourful patterns. The company was founded by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni in 1953.-Brands:...
  
   (Rosita and Ottavio Missoni)
• Miu Miu
  Miu Miu
  Miu Miu is a high fashion brand from the Prada fashion house, opened in 1993 and headed by Miuccia Prada. The name of the collection is taken from Miuccia Prada’s nickname.-Stores:...
  
  
• Moschino
  Moschino
  Moschino is an Italian fashion design house and manufacturer of women's, men's and children's fashion.-History:The brand was originally created in 1983 by the late Franco Moschino...
  
  
• Nina Ricci
  Nina Ricci (brand)
  Nina Ricci is a fashion house founded by Maria "Nina" Ricci and her son Robert in Paris in 1932, and owned by the Spanish beauty and fashion group Puig since 1998. Nina Ricci designed gowns while Robert managed the business and finances. She worked with the fabrics directly on the mannequin to...
  
  
• Prada
• Parafernalia
• Pininfarina
  Pininfarina
  Pininfarina S.p.A. is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder in Cambiano, Italy.Founded as Società anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in 1930 by automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina, Pininfarina has been employed by a wide variety of high-end automobile manufacturers,...
  
  
• Ermanno Scervino
• Luciano Soprani
  Luciano Soprani
  Luciano Soprani was an Italian fashion designer known for his tailored, colorful men's suits and silk evening gowns.-Early life:Soprani was born in Reggiolo in 1946 to a family of farmers in the province of Reggio Emilia...
  
  
• Luisa Spagnoli
  Luisa Spagnoli
  Luisa Spagnoli, born Sargentini , was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a brand of women’s fashion clothing and chocolate brand Perugina- Biography :Perugina...
  
  
• Trussardi
• Valentino
  Valentino SpA
  Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. Nowadays it is a part of Valentino Fashion Group. New creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli will take Alessandra Facchinetti's seat as creative designer...
  
   (Valentino Garavani)
• Bottega Veneta
  Bottega Veneta
  Bottega Veneta is an Italian luxury goods house best known for its leather goods. Founded in 1966, it was purchased in 2001 by Gucci Group, now a part of the French multinational group PPR. Bottega Veneta is headquartered in Vicenza, in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy.- History :Bottega...
  
  
• Gianni Versace
• Ermenegildo Zegna
  Ermenegildo Zegna
  Ermenegildo Zegna is a leading Italian fashion house, specialing in men's clothing. Founded in 1910, it is now managed by the fourth generation of the Zegna family and remains in family ownership. As well as producing suits for its own labels, it manufactures suits for labels such as Gucci, Yves...
  
  
• Max Mara
  Max Mara
  MaxMara, or The House of MaxMara, is a luxury Italian fashion house known for its ready-to-wear clothing. Established in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti...
  
  
• Gucci
  Gucci
  The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci , is an Italian fashion and leather goods label, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company PPR...
  
  
• Pierangelo Andreani
• SASCH

Electronics

• Brionvega
  Brionvega
  Brionvega is an Italian electronics company, established in Milan in 1945, now located in Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.Former part of the Seleco-Formenti Group, after the crack down of the company, following price dumping from Turkish manufacturers, has been split in two parts.The rights...
  
   (mobile phone
  Mobile phone
  A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
  
  s; electronics
  Electronics
  Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
  
  )
• Enface (personal computer
  Personal computer
  A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
  
  s)
• Elettrodata (personal computer
  Personal computer
  A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
  
  )
• Geloso
• Magnex (mp3 players, digital camera
  Digital camera
  A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
  
  s)
• Marelli
• Mivar
  Mivar
  Mivar is an Italian TV-set manufacturer.It was founded by entrepreneur Carlo Vichi in 1945 in Milan. Mivar had produced radios and CRT televisions, but now produces only LCD televisions.Mivar is the last Italian factory of televisions....
  
   (televisions)
• Music Box (mp3 players)
• MyWave Electronics  (electronics)
• Olidata
  Olidata
  Olidata is an Italian computer system manufacturer. The company was founded in Cesena, Italy in 1982 by Carlo Rossi and Adolfo Savini as a limited liability company . Olidata specializes in software development...
  
   (personal computers)
• Olivetti
  Olivetti
  Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...
  
   (electronics
  Electronics
  Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
  
  )
• Onda
  Onda
  Onda S.p.A. is an Italian cellular phone manufacturer. The company′s headquarter is in Roveredo in Piano with a subsidiary in Rome and in Nanjing .Telecom Italia is a major distributor of Onda handsets.- Mobile Phones :* N1000iB...
  
   (mobile phone
  Mobile phone
  A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
  
  s)
• Seleco
  Seleco
  Sèleco is an electronics company based in Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. It is part of Super//Fluo, who bought the rights in August, 2006, along with Brionvega and Imperial.-History:...
  
   (televisions)
• Sicom test
  Sicom test
  - Sicom :Sicom test srl is an Italian test and certification laboratory for telecommunication products.Sicom was founded in 2003 and is based at the 'AREA Science Park in Trieste.- Profile : Sicom is a test laboratory for telecommunication, unique in...
  
   (test and certification)
• Sisvel (mp3 players)
• STMicroelectronics
  STMicroelectronics
  STMicroelectronics is an Italian-French electronics and semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.While STMicroelectronics corporate headquarters and the headquarters for EMEA region are based in Geneva, the holding company, STMicroelectronics N.V. is registered in Amsterdam,...
  
   (semiconductor
  Semiconductor
  A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...
  
  s)
• Telit
  Telit
  Telit Communications PLC is a global vendor of wireless machine to machine technology headquartered in London . The company is listed on AIM ....
  
   (mobile phones)
• Webtronic (electronics)
• Ciare (loudspeakers)
• RCF (loudspeakers and professional audio products)

Energy and petroleum

• A2A
  A2A
  A2A S.p.A. is an Italian utility company born out of the merger of two independent Italian companies, AEM of Milan and ASM Brescia at the end of 2007. It is the first Italian operator in the private urban waste sector to work 24 hours for an energy production of 1.5 TWh. It is the third largest...
  
  
• Acea
• Agip
  Agip
  Agip is an Italian automotive gasoline and diesel retailer established in 1926. It is a subsidiary of the multinational petroleum company Eni.In 2003, Eni S.p.A...
  
   Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
   retailer
  Retailing
  Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
  
  )
• Ansaldo Energia
  Ansaldo Energia
  Ansaldo Energia, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, is an Italian power engineering company. It is based in Genoa.-History:The parent company, Ansaldo, started in 1853. It was taken over by Finmeccanica in 1993...
  
  
• API Anonima Italiana Petroli (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
   retailer
  Retailing
  Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
  
  )
• C*Blade S.p.A.
• Edison S.p.A.
  Edison S.p.A.
  Edison S.p.A is the fifth largest energy company in Italy in the field of electricity and natural gas. It produces, imports and sells electric power and hydrocarbons.-History:...
  
   (electricity and natural gas
  Natural gas
  Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...
  
  )
• Enel Ente Nazionale per l'energia ELettrica (energy
  Energy
  In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
  
  )
• Eni
  Eni
  Eni S.p.A. is an Italian multinational oil and gas company, present in 70 countries, and currently Italy's largest industrial company with a market capitalization of 87.7 billion euros , as of July 24, 2008...
  
   Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
  )
• Erg (Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone
  Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone
  ERG is an Italian multi-energy company, founded in 1938 and based and headquartered in Genoa, Italy.ERG has been listed on the Milan stock exchange since 1997.-Origins, development, integration:...
  
  ) (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
  )
• Falck
• IP Italiana Petroli (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
   retailer
  Retailing
  Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
  
  )
• P.Energy (renewable energy
  Renewable energy
  Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
  
  )
• Saras
  Saras S.p.A.
  Saras Raffinerie Sarde SpA is an Italian energy provider founded in 1962, operating in the area of oil refining and the production of electricity, located in the island of Sardinia.-History:...
  
   (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
  )
• Selenia (petroleum
  Petroleum
  Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...
  
   retailer
  Retailing
  Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
  
  )
• Techint
  Techint
  Techint is a conglomerate multinational company founded in Milan in September 1945 by Italian industrialist Agostino Rocca and headquartered in Milan and Buenos Aires . Techint comprises more than 100 companies operating worldwide in the following areas of business: Engineering & Construction,...
  
  

Financial services

• Alleanza Assicurazioni
  Alleanza Assicurazioni
  Alleanza Assicurazioni is an Italian insurance company based in Milan. It was founded in Genoa in 1898. The company is particularly active in the life insurance sector. Alleanza was controlled with a stake of around 50.4% by Assicurazioni Generali between 1933 and June 2009, when Generali...
  
  
• Assicurazioni Generali
  Assicurazioni Generali
  Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. is the largest insurance company in Italy and one of the largest in Europe. It has its headquarters in Trieste...
  
  
• Banca Intesa
  Banca Intesa
  Banca Intesa S.p.A. was formed in 1998 from the merger of Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde and Banco Ambroveneto...
  
  
• Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
  Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
  Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA is an Italian banking firm. Founded in 1913 as Istituto di Credito per la Cooperazione, it was nationalized in 1929. It was re-privatized and listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1998, before being acquired by French banking group BNP Paribas in 2006...
  
  
• Banca Popolare di Milano
  Banca Popolare di Milano
  -History:The second cooperative bank in Italy , it was founded in 1865 in Milan by Luigi Luzzatti, who later served as the nation's Prime Minister...
  
  
• Banca Sella
  Banca Sella
  Banca Sella S.p.A, branded as Banca Sella, is an Italian banking group, active in the banking, insurance and asset management businesses in Europe and Asia .-External links:*...
  
  
• Banco Ambrosiano
  Banco Ambrosiano
  Banco Ambrosiano was an Italian bank which collapsed in 1982. At the centre of the bank's failure was its chairman, Roberto Calvi and his membership in the illegal Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due...
  
   (1946–1985 / then became Nuovo Banco Ambrosiano
  Nuovo Banco Ambrosiano
  The Nuovo Banco Ambrosiano was the bank replacing the Banco Ambrosiano after its collapse. In 1989 the bank merged with the Banca Cattolica del Veneto to form the Banco Ambrosiano Veneto. In 1998 the latter bank formed the Banca Intesa together with the Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde...
  
  )
• Banco Popolare Gruppo Bancario
• Capitalia
  Capitalia
  Capitalia was an Italian banking group headquartered in Rome. Capitalia was formed in July 2002 in a merger of Banca di Roma, Bipop-Carire, and Banco di Sicilia...
  
  
• Fininvest
  Fininvest
  Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi's family and managed by Silvio Berlusconi's eldest daughter Marina Berlusconi.-Structure:...
  
  
• Fondiaria-Sai
  Fondiaria-Sai
  Fondiaria-Sai S.p.A. is an Italian financial services company based in Florence, founded by the merger of Società Assicuratrice Industriale and La Fondiaria Assicurazioni in 2002. The company is particularly active in the insurance sector, where it underwrites life, property, casualty and marine...
  
  
• Intesa Sanpaolo
  Intesa Sanpaolo
  Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group resulting from the merger between Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI based in Turin, Italy. It has clear leadership in the Italian market and a minor but growing international presence focused on Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa Intesa Sanpaolo...
  
  
• Mediobanca
  Mediobanca
  Mediobanca is an Italian investment bank founded in 1946 at the initiative of Raffaele Mattioli and Enrico Cuccia to facilitate the post-World War II reconstruction of Italian industry.Enrico Cuccia led Mediobanca from 1946 to 1982...
  
  
• Milano Assicurazioni
  Milano Assicurazioni
  Milano Assicurazioni is an Italian financial services company based in Milan, Italy. The company is particularly active in the insurance sector, where it underwrites life, property, casualty and marine cover. The company is listed on the Borsa Italiana and a constituent of the S&P/MIB index. The...
  
  
• Banco Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. is the oldest surviving bank in the world. Founded in 1472 by the Magistrate of the city state of Siena, Italy, as a mount of piety, it has been operating ever since. Today it consists of approximately 3,000 branches, 33,000 employees and 4.5 million...
  
  
• Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà
• Sanpaolo IMI
  Sanpaolo IMI
  The Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI was one of Italy's major banking and insurance groups, based in Turin. It employed about 44,000 people and had about 7 million customers....
  
  
• UniCredit
  UniCredit
  UniCredit SpA is an Italy-based, pan-European banking organization, with aprox 40 million customers and operations in 22 countries.- Geography :...
  
  
• Unipol - UGF

Firearms manufacturers

• Benelli
  Benelli (firearms)
  Benelli Armi SpA is an Italian firearm manufacturer founded in 1967, located in Urbino, Italy, best known for high quality shotguns used by military, law enforcement and civilians all over the world. Particularly famous is the Benelli M3 12 gauge, used extensively by American SWAT teams...
  
  
• Beretta
  Beretta
  Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer. Their firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. Beretta is the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the...
  
  
• Bernardelli
• Breda
  Breda Meccanica Bresciana
  Breda Meccanica Bresciana, widely known simply as Breda, is a large Italian manufacturer of small arms and ammunition located in Brescia.-History:...
  
  
• Franchi
• Perazzi
  Perazzi
  Perazzi is a manufacturer of precision shotguns from Brescia, Italy. The company sells hunting and sporting models of shotguns in the over-and-under and side-by-side varieties. The manufacturer is noted for their removable trigger groups, high quality, and high prices . The founder of Perazzi is...
  
  
• Tanfoglio
  Tanfoglio
  Fratelli Tanfoglio S.N.C. is an Italian gun manufacturing company. Their current weapons are used extensively in sport competitions and for personal defence. Tanfoglio is located in Gardone Val Trompia - Italy, and is known for its broad sport pistol catalogue...
  
  

Instruments

• Bontempi
  Bontempi
  Bontempi is an Italian musical instrument manufacturer, best known for manufacturing low-priced, plastic-cased Chord Organs; small keyboard instruments in which the sound is produced by air being forced over reeds by an electric fan....
  
  
• Fazioli
  Fazioli
  Fazioli Pianoforti is a piano manufacturing company based in Sacile, Italy.Fazioli currently produces 110 pianos a year from its single factory, and has annual revenues of €6 million.- History :...
  
  
• Schulze-Pollmann
• Viscount
  Viscount (musical instrument manufacturer)
  Viscount International SpA is a musical instrument manufacturer based in Mondaino, Italy. The brand Viscount was registered in 1969 by Marcello Galanti, but the company was established in the late 19th century by his forefather Antonio Galanti. After 1969 Viscount’s primary focus has been on...
  
  

Leisure

• 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...
  
  
• HMSHost
• La Rinascente
  La Rinascente
  La Rinascente is a Thai owned Italian retailer operating upscale department stores in the area of clothing, household and beauty products, founded in Milan in 1865 by Luigi and Ferdinando Bocconi....
  
  
• Gruppo Coin
• Gardaland
  Gardaland
  Gardaland is the third-most-popular theme park in Europe and is between Peschiera and Lazise, at Lake Garda in Italy. Built on the eastern shore of Lake Garda at Castelnuovo del Garda, the park opened on July 19, 1975. It has expanded steadily in both size and attendance, topping 1 million visitors...
  
  
• La Feltrinelli
• Yoox
  Yoox
  YOOX Group S.p.A is an Italian internet mail order retailer of men's and women's multibrand clothing and accessories. Founded by Federico Marchetti, a former investment banker, in Zola Predosa near Bologna in 2000, Yoox Group has become a profitable e-commerce company that serves "more than 100...
  
  

Marine companies

• Azimut (shipbuilding
  Shipbuilding
  Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both...
  
  )
• Benetti
  Benetti
  Benetti is an Italian shipbuilding and Boat building company based in Viareggio, Livorno and Fano, owned by Azimut.Benetti designs and constructs motoryachts, and is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts, having won the Showboats International magazine "shipyard number 1" award six...
  
   (shipbuilding)
• Costa Crociere
  Costa Cruises
  Costa Cruises is a British-American owned Italian cruise line, based in Genoa, Italy.Founded in 1924, the company originally operated cargo ships, until the introduction of passenger services in 1947, with regular services between Italy and South America...
  
   (cruise line
  Cruise line
  A cruise line is a company that operates cruise ships. Cruise lines have a dual character; they are partly in the transportation business, and partly in the leisure entertainment business, a duality that carries down into the ships themselves, which have both a crew headed by the ship's captain,...
  
  )
• Ferretti Group
  Ferretti Group
  Ferretti Group is one of the world leaders in the design, construction and sale of motor yachts with a portfolio of exclusive and prestigious brands of the nautical world: Ferretti Yachts, Ferretti Custom Line, Pershing, Itama, Riva, Bertram, Mochi Craft and CRN. The company initially produced...
  
   (shipbuilding)
• Fincantieri
  Fincantieri
  Fincantieri - Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. is a shipbuilding company based in Trieste, Italy. It was formed in 1959 and is the largest shipbuilder in the Mediterranean, and one of the largest in Europe...
  
   (shipbuilding)
• Italcantieri (shipbuilding)
• Moby Lines
  Moby Lines
  Moby Lines is an Italian shipping company that operates ferries and cruiseferries between the Italian or French mainland and the islands of Elba, Sardinia and Corsica. The company was founded in 1959 under the name Navigazione Arcipelago Maddalenino .In 2006 Moby Lines purchased Lloyd Sardegna...
  
   (ferries line)
• MSC Italian Cruises
  MSC Italian Cruises
  MSC Cruises is a division of Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. .Originally founded as Lauro Lines by Achille Lauro, the company entered the cruise business in the 1960s, operating two ships, the Angelina Lauro and , both of which met fiery ends...
  
   (cruise line)
• Novamarine (shipbuilding)
• Perini Navi
  Perini Navi
  Perini Navi is an Italian shipyard based in Viareggio, Italy, province of Tuscany. Ship maintenance now occurs at the Ligurian port of La Spezia. Founded by Fabio Perini in the 1980s, it builds large , luxury sailing yachts, mainly of ketch design....
  
   (yacht
  Yacht
  A yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries...
  
  s)
• Riva
  Ferretti Group
  Ferretti Group is one of the world leaders in the design, construction and sale of motor yachts with a portfolio of exclusive and prestigious brands of the nautical world: Ferretti Yachts, Ferretti Custom Line, Pershing, Itama, Riva, Bertram, Mochi Craft and CRN. The company initially produced...
  
   (shipbuilding)
• Sessa (shipbuilding)
• Silversea Cruises
  Silversea Cruises
  Silversea Cruises is a luxury cruise line that operates six luxury, all-suite cruise ships that sail itineraries all around the world throughout the year. The line maintains branch offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore...
  
   (cruise line)
• Sardinia Ferries (ferries line)
• Tirrenia di Navigazione
  Tirrenia di Navigazione
  Tirrenia di Navigazione is a shipping company owned by Fintecna, which operates a fleet of 23 vessels on internal Italian routes and to Albania.-History:...
  
   (ferries line)

Material production

• Riva Group (steel)
• RodAcciai Group (special steel production)
• RSI - Rapp. Siderurgiche Ind.li (steel)
• Plasma inox (steel)
• A.F.C SPA (steel)
• ASO Siderurgica (steel)
• Acciaieria di Calvisano (steel)
• Acciaieria di Rubiera (steel)
• Acciaieria di Valsugana (steel)
• Acciaierie Bertoli Safau (steel)
• Acciaierie di Sicilia (steel)
• Italcementi
  Italcementi
  Italcementi is an Italian multinational company, quoted on the Borsa Italiana, which produces cement, ready-mix concrete and construction aggregates...
  
  
• Cementir
• Buzzi Unicem
  Buzzi Unicem
  Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. is an Italian company, quoted on the Borsa Italiana, which produces cement, ready-mix concrete and construction aggregates. Its headquarters are in the town of Casale Monferrato which was once known as the Italian ‘cement capital’...
  
  
• Danieli
  Danieli
  Danieli is the third largest supplier of equipment and plants to themetal industry in the world. The company has six factories in Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Thailand and China....
  
  
• Dalmine

Motorcycle companies

• Aprilia
  Aprilia
  Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle company, one of the seven marques owned by Piaggio, the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.Aprilia started as a scooter manufacturer, but has more recently come to be known for its race-winning sportbikes...
  
   (motorbikes
  Motorcycle
  A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
  
  )
• Benelli
  Benelli (motorcycles)
  Benelli is an Italian Motorcycle manufacturer owned by Chinese company Qianjiang Group. It once manufactured shotguns, although this part of the business is now a separate company.-Early history:...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Beta
  Beta (motorcycle manufacturer)
  Beta is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer, specialising in off-road motorcycles. Beta are best known for their popular trials bikes. In 2005, they launched a range of enduro motorcycles using KTM engines. In the 2010 they will launch the new RR series, with a new engine made in-house...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Bimota
  Bimota
  Bimota is a small, Italian manufacturer of custom and production motorcycles. It was founded in 1973 in Rimini, Italy by Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini. The company name is a portmanteau derived from the first two letters of each of the three founders' surnames, i.e...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Borile (motorbikes)
• Cagiva
  Cagiva
  Cagiva is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1950 by Giovanni Castiglioni in Varese, originally producing small metal components. It went into the motorcycle industry in 1978. The name is a portmanteau derived from the founder and the founding location, i.e. CAstiglioni GIovanni...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Ducati (motorbikes)
• Garelli
  Garelli Motorcycles
  Garelli Motorcycles is an Italian moped, and motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1919 by Alberto Garelli.At age 22, Adalberto Garelli received a degree in engineering and dedicated his work to developing and perfecting the 2-stroke engine for Fiat. Garelli quit in 1911 due to Fiat's lack of...
  
   (scooters
  Scooter (motorcycle)
  A scooter is a motorcycle with step-through frame and a platform for the operator's feet. Elements of scooter design have been present in some of the earliest motorcycles, and motorcycles identifiable as scooters have been made from 1914 or earlier...
  
  )
• Ghezzi & Brian (motorbikes)
• Gilera
  Gilera
  Gilera is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in Arcore in 1909 by Giuseppe Gilera. In 1969 the company was purchased by Piaggio, which now holds six marques and is the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.-History:...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Husqvarna
  Husqvarna Motorcycles
  Husqvarna Motorcycles, a subsidiary of BMW, is a company manufacturing motocross, enduro and supermoto motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, as a branch of the Husqvarna armament firm which had supplied the Swedish army with rifles since 1689.-History:As...
  
   (motorbikes)(Swedish Origin)
• Laverda
  Laverda
  Laverda was an Italian manufacturer of high performance motorcycles. The motorcycles in their day gained a reputation for being robust and innovative....
  
   (motorbikes)
• Magni (motorbikes)
• Malaguti
  Malaguti
  Malaguti is a family-owned Italian scooter and motorcycle company based in San Lazzaro di Savena, founded by Antonino Malaguti in 1930.-History:...
  
   (scooters)
• Mondial
  Mondial (motorcycle manufacturer)
  FB-Mondial was a motorcycle manufacturer from Milan, Italy between 1948 and 1979, known for its Grand Prix motorcycle racing successes during the 1950s. Prior to World War II, it manufactured delivery tricycles...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Moto Guzzi
  Moto Guzzi
  Moto Guzzi is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It is one of seven brands owned by Piaggio.Established in 1921 in Mandello del Lario, Italy, the company is noted for its central historic role in Italy's motorcycling manufacture, its prominence worldwide in motorcycle racing, and a series of...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Moto Morini
  Moto Morini
  Moto Morini is an Italian maker of motorcycles. It was founded by Alfonso Morini in Bologna, in 1937.Earlier, Morini had also manufactured motorcycles together with Mario Mazzetti under the name MM...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Motobi (motorbikes)
• MV Agusta
  MV Agusta
  MV Agusta is a motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1945 near Milan in Cascina Costa, Italy. The company began as an offshoot of the Agusta aviation company formed by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923. The Count died in 1927, leaving the company in the hands of his wife and sons, Domenico, Vincenzo,...
  
   (motorbikes)
• Piaggio
  Piaggio
  Piaggio based in Pontedera, Italy encompasses seven brands of scooters, motorcycles and compact commercial vehicles. As the fourth largest producer of scooters and motorcycles in the world, Piaggio produces more than 600,000 vehicles annually, with five research and development centers, more than...
  
   (scooters)
• TM Racing (motorbikes
  Motorcycle
  A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
  
  )
• Vertemati (motorbikes)
• Vespa
  Vespa
  Vespa is an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian.The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A...
  
   (scooters)
• Vyrus (motorcycles)
• VOR (motorbikes)

Software

• Buffetti
• DADA group
• Incat Systems
• Metachaos
• IK Multimedia
  IK multimedia
  IK Multimedia is a computer music technology company that offers a diverse range of software and hardware production tools for musicians. Founded in Modena, Italy in 1996, it now operates worldwide with offices in Italy, the US and the UK...
  
  
• Acca
• Integration Objects
  Integration Objects
  Integration Objects is a software development firm that was created in 2002. The company is a systems integrator and solutions provider for knowledge management, automation and plant process management and decision support applications....
  
  

Porcelain and ceramic

• FAP ceramiche
• Marazzi Group
• Majello
  Majello
  The anciest Italian factory producing Porcelain of Capodimonte.-History:In 1867 Alfonso Majello, awarded "knight of Job" founded the Majello factory that continued the tradition of producing porcelains of Capodimonte started in 1743 with the Real Factory of Capodimonte founded by the Spanish king...
  
  
• IRIS Ceramica
• Ideal Standard
• Richard Ginori

Publishing

• Bompiani
• Caltagirone Editore
  Caltagirone Editore
  Caltagirone Editore S.p.A. is an Fourth Italian Publishing House, based in Rome, Italy, founded in July 1999 and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since December 2000....
  
  
• De Agostini
  De Agostini
  De Agostini S.p.A. is a publishing house in Italy. It was founded in 1901 by the geographer Giovanni De Agostini in Rome, Italy, and later moved to Novara, Italy.- Overview :*De Agostini Editore S.p.A.**Istituto Geografico De Agostini S.p.A....
  
  
• Giulio Einaudi Editore
• Garzanti
• Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
  Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
  Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso S.p.A. is an Italian Media conglomerate, founded in 1955 and based in Rome, Italy and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange.- Shareholding :* CIR Group - 50,852%* Carlo Caracciolo - 10,008%...
  
  
• Fabbri Editori
• Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore
• Giuseppe Laterza & figli
• Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
  Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
  Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.-History:Founded by the 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori in 1907 to publish the magazine titled Luce!, it soon became an important publisher. Its headquarters are in Milan....
  
  
• Il Mulino
• Newton Compton Editori
• Seat Pagine Gialle
  Seat Pagine Gialle
  SEAT Pagine Gialle is an Italian telephone directories and street maps publisher, active also in the online advertising sector. The UK subsidiary is Thomson Directories Ltd.-External links:***...
  
   (Telephone directory publishing)
• Treccani
• Fratelli Treves Editori
  RCS MediaGroup
  RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV...
  
  
• Nicola Zanichelli Editore
• RCS MediaGroup
  RCS MediaGroup
  RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV...
  
  
• Class Editori
  Class Editori
  Class Editori S.p.A. is an Italian media conglomerate, based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since November 30, 1998.-Overview:Founded in 1986 by Paolo Panerai, the publisher is primarily devoted to financial and lifestyle news....
  
  
• Utet
• Ricordi
  Casa Ricordi
  Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...
  
  

Historical

• Autobianchi
  Autobianchi
  Autobianchi was an Italian automobile manufacturer, created jointly by Bianchi, Pirelli and Fiat in 1955. Autobianchi produced only a handful of models during its lifetime, which were almost exclusively small cars, with the biggest being the short-lived Autobianchi A111, a small family car...
  
   (automobiles, production ceased)
• Garelli (scooters, production ceased)
• Innocenti
  Innocenti
  Innocenti was an Italian machinery works originally established by Ferdinando Innocenti in 1920.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...
  
   (automobiles, production ceased)
• Isotta Fraschini (automobiles, production ceased)
• ItalJet (scooters, production ceased)
• Laverda
  Laverda
  Laverda was an Italian manufacturer of high performance motorcycles. The motorcycles in their day gained a reputation for being robust and innovative....
  
   (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Memphis Group
  Memphis Group
  The Memphis Group was an Italian design and architecture group started by Ettore Sottsass that designed Post Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects from 1981-1987.-Origins:...
  
   (architecture, dismantled)
• OM
  Officine Meccaniche
  Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company, founded in 1899 in Milan as Societa Anonima Officine Meccaniche...
  
   (truck
  Truck
  A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...
  
  s, production ceased)
• OSCA (automobiles, production ceased)
• Lambretta
  Lambretta
  Lambretta can refer to:* Lambretta, a petrol-powered scooter made by Innocenti* Lambretta , a clothing brand* Lambretta , a Swedish rock band* The Lambrettas, a British mod revival band...
  
  
• Di Blasi (motorbike, production ceased)
• Fantic Motor (motorbikes, production ceased)
• FBM (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Frera (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Gazzaniga (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Gianca (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Gilera
  Gilera
  Gilera is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in Arcore in 1909 by Giuseppe Gilera. In 1969 the company was purchased by Piaggio, which now holds six marques and is the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.-History:...
  
   (scooter, motorbike, production ceased)
• Guazzoni (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Iso Rivolta
  Iso Rivolta
  Iso Rivolta was an automobile and motorbike manufacturer in Italy, predominantly active from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. They are known for the iconic Isetta 'bubble car' of the 1950s, and for a number of powerful performance cars in the 60s and early 70s.-History:Iso Rivolta was...
  
   (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Italjet
  Italjet
  Italjet Moto Srl is an Italian manufacturer of motorcycles, headquartered in Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna, Italy. The company was founded in 1959 in San Lazzaro, Bologna by Leopoldo Tartarini.-Products:...
  
   (scooter, production ceased)
• Malanca (motorbikes, production ceased)
• MBA (motorbikes, production ceased)
• MM (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Meteora (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Milani (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Mondial Moto (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Morbidelli (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Motobi (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Oscar Moto (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Paton (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Romeo-Motron (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Rumi (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Rondine (motorbikes, production ceased)
• San Venero (en la actualidad no fabrica)
• Sertum (motorbikes, production ceased)
• TM Moto (motorbikes, production ceased)
• Vi-Vi (motorbikes, production ceased)

Fabricated products

• ABET laminati (laminates)
• Bertoni, Milano
  Bertoni, Milano
  GDE Bertoni is a trophy and medal manufacturer, in Milan, Italy. It was transfered to AC milan Until 1995, the company was known as 'Bertoni, Milano'....
  
  , (medals, trophies)
• Danieli
  Danieli
  Danieli is the third largest supplier of equipment and plants to themetal industry in the world. The company has six factories in Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Thailand and China....
  
   (metals industry)
• Pirelli
  Pirelli
  Pirelli & C. SpA is a diverse multinational company based in Milan, Italy. The company, the world’s fifth largest tyre manufacturer, is present in over 160 countries, has 20 manufacturing sites around the world and a network of around 10,000 distributors and retailers.Founded in Milan in 1872,...
  
   (rubber
  Rubber
  Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...
  
  , tyre
  Tire
  A tire or tyre is a ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel rim to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground...
  
  s, cable
  Cable
  A cable is two or more wires running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly. In mechanics cables, otherwise known as wire ropes, are used for lifting, hauling and towing or conveying force through tension. In electrical engineering cables are used to carry...
  
  s)
• Dalmine
  Dalmine
  Dalmine is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northeast of Milan and about 8 km southwest of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 22,326 and an area of 11.6 km².The municipality of Dalmine contains the...
  
  
• Fabriano
  Fabriano
  Fabriano is a town and comune of Ancona province in the Italian region of the Marche, at 325 m above sea-level. It lies in the Esino valley 44 km upstream and SW of Jesi; and 15 km ENE of Fossato di Vico and 36 km east of Gubbio...
  
   (paper
  Paper
  Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
  
  )
• Fedrigoni
  Fedrigoni
  Fedrigoni is a large manufacturer of paper in Italy which owns 5 paper mills in Verona, Arco di Trento, Riva del Garda, Fabriano and Pioraco with a total capacity of 350,000 tonnes/year....
  
   (paper
  Paper
  Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
  
  )
• Pigna (paper)
• Bulgari
  Bulgari
  Bulgari is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer which has been owned by the French firm LVMH since October 2011. The trademark is usually written "BVLGARI" in the classical Latin alphabet , and is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirio Voulgaris...
  
  
• Luxottica
  Luxottica
  Luxottica Group S.p.A. is the world's largest eyewear company. Its best known brands include Ray-Ban, Persol and Oakley, Inc.. It also makes sunglasses and prescription frames for a multitude of designer brands such as Chanel and Prada, whose designs and trademarks are used under license...
  
   (glasses
  Glasses
  Glasses, also known as eyeglasses , spectacles or simply specs , are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes. They are normally used for vision correction or eye protection. Safety glasses are a kind of eye protection against flying debris or against visible and near visible light or...
  
  )
• Rocco Bormioli (glasses)
• Safilo
  Safilo
  -History:Safilo Group S.p.A. was founded in 1934 after Guglielmo Tabacchi purchased Italy’s first industrial complex for producing lenses and frames in Pieve di Cadore. Exports in the 1930s expanded to many European countries, North Africa, the Middle East and South America.In the 1940s,...
  
   (glasses)
• Riva
  Gruppo Riva
  Gruppo Riva is an Italian steel producer. After the Arcelor-Mittal merger and the takeover of Corus by Tata Steel, the group is currently the world’s eighteenth and the third largest steel producer in Europe...
  
  
• Lanerossi (wool
  Wool
  Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....
  
  )
• Maimeri
• Tenaris
  Tenaris
  Tenaris is a global manufacturer and supplier of seamless and welded steel pipe products and provider of pipe handling, stocking and distribution services to the oil and gas, energy and mechanical industries...
  
  
• Techint
  Techint
  Techint is a conglomerate multinational company founded in Milan in September 1945 by Italian industrialist Agostino Rocca and headquartered in Milan and Buenos Aires . Techint comprises more than 100 companies operating worldwide in the following areas of business: Engineering & Construction,...
  
  
• UFO PLAST (plastics)
• Manfrotto
• Damiani
  Damiani (jewelry company)
  Damiani is an Italian jewelry company founded in 1924 by Enrico Grassi Damiani in Valenza, Italy. Strongly influenced by the beauty of Art Deco styles, Enrico designed and produced fine jewelry which quickly became renowned...
  
   (jewelry)
• UnoAErre
  UnoAErre
  UnoAErre Italia, which is based in Arezzo, is an Italian goldsmith and jewelry company.UnoAErre is one of the world's largest company specializing in the manufacture, distribution and export of gold and jewelry worldwide....
  
   (jewelry)
• Durst
  Durst
  Durst Phototechnik AG is a manufacturer of photographic and printing equipment, based in Brixen, Italy.-History:Established in 1936 by two brothers, Julius and Gilbert Durst, who were enthusiasts in the field of photography, encouraged by their mother, who was also a keen photographer and had her...
  
  
• Mapei
  Mapei
  MAPEI is an Italian company founded in 1937 by Rodolfo Squinzi in Milan, Italy. It evolved from a small wall paint producer into a worldwide producer of adhesives, thinsets and sealants for buildings ....
  
   (products for the building industry)
• Tapì (synthetic corks)

Domestic appliances

• Alessi (company)
• Indesit
  Indesit
  Indesit Company, an Italian multinational company based in Fabriano, Ancona province, Italy, a leading appliance manufacturer in Europe.- History :...
  
   (home appliances)
• Elica SPA (cooker hoods)
• Futuro Futuro (cooker hoods)
• Italsilva (detergents)
• Lagostina
  Lagostina
  Lagostina is an Italian manufacturer of cookware, flatware and other kitchenware. They are also an important manufacturer of pressure cookers. Lagostina was founded in 1901 in Omegna, Province of Verbania, Italy, as a family business initially focusing on stainless steel flatware.- 1901–1930 : A...
  
   (kitchenware
  Kitchenware
  Kitchenware include utensils, appliances, dishes, cookware, and so on for use in the kitchen.-See also:*Cookware and bakeware*Dishware*Drinkware*List of eating utensils*List of food preparation utensils*List of Japanese cooking utensils...
  
  s)
• Paglieri (personal and home care)
• Candy
  Candy (company)
  Candy is an Italian company based in Brugherio, near Milan, which manufactures domestic appliances.-Early history:Candy Group is an Italian privately-owned multi-brand group of companies, among the world leaders in the household appliance industry: washing machines, dishwashers, dryers,...
  
  
• DeLonghi
  DeLonghi
  De'Longhi Group, or De'Longhi S.p.A, is a major European small appliance manufacturer based in Treviso, Italy.- History and trading :...
  
  
• Fulgor
  Fulgor
  FULGOR is an Italian manufacturer of premium major appliances and ceramic glass grills. Fulgor's global headquarters are located in Gallarate, Italy; roughly 25 miles north of Milan in the heart of Italy's Lombardy Region...
  
  
• SMEG
• Ariston
  Indesit
  Indesit Company, an Italian multinational company based in Fabriano, Ancona province, Italy, a leading appliance manufacturer in Europe.- History :...
  
  
• Zanussi
  Zanussi
  Zanussi is an Italian producer of home appliances that in 1984 was bought by Electrolux. Zanussi is a leading brand for domestic kitchen appliances in Europe. Products have been exported from Italy since 1946.-History:...
  
  
• Zoppas

Recreational products

• Benelli (firearms)
  Benelli (firearms)
  Benelli Armi SpA is an Italian firearm manufacturer founded in 1967, located in Urbino, Italy, best known for high quality shotguns used by military, law enforcement and civilians all over the world. Particularly famous is the Benelli M3 12 gauge, used extensively by American SWAT teams...
  
   (gun
  Gun
  A gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew-served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol,...
  
  s)
• Beretta
  Beretta
  Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer. Their firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. Beretta is the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the...
  
   (guns)
• Bernardelli (guns)
• Chicco
  Chicco
  Chicco is an Italian baby care brand established in 1958 and it is the most important brand of Artsana, an Italian company founded in 1946. Chicco specializes in making clothing and equipment for babies and toddlers, including strollers, high chairs, car seats and toys...
  
   (children's stuff and toys)
• Fabbri Group
  Fabbri Group
  The Fabbri Group is an Italian amusement rides manufacturer, based in Bergantino, a northern village of Italy.Fabbri was founded and started manufacturing in 1950, just after World War II, by Romolo Fabbri...
  
   (amusement rides)
• Fontanini (figurine
  Figurine
  A figurine is a statuette that represents a human, deity or animal. Figurines may be realistic or iconic, depending on the skill and intention of the creator. The earliest were made of stone or clay...
  
  s)
• Franchi (guns and bicycle
  Bicycle
  A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....
  
  s)
• Garlando
  Garlando
  Garlando is a company based in Italy that produces pocket billiards and table football tables.-History:Garlando was founded officially in 1954 at Spinetta Marengo – a small village near Alessandria – by Renato Garlando, the father of the present managing director, already in the...
  
   (Table Sports)
• Giochi Preziosi (toys), maker of Cicciobello
  Cicciobello
  Cicciobello is an Italian doll produced by Giochi Preziosi. Cicciobello plays a few month-old baby, thus enabling children to learn through play to become familiar with the job of mother....
  
   and Emiglio Robot.
• Inglesina, maker of Otutto http://www.otutto.com and other baby transport
  Baby transport
  Baby transport consists of devices for transporting and carrying infants. A "child carrier" or "baby carrier" is a device used to carry an infant or small child on the body of an adult...
  
  s
• Maxi-Cosi baby car seats and other baby transport
  Baby transport
  Baby transport consists of devices for transporting and carrying infants. A "child carrier" or "baby carrier" is a device used to carry an infant or small child on the body of an adult...
  
  s.
• Panini Comics
  Panini Comics
  Panini Comics is an Italian comic book publisher. A division of Panini Group, best known for their collectible stickers, it is headquartered in Modena, Italy...
  
   (comic book
  Comic book
  A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
  
  s)
• Peg Perego
  Peg Perego
  Peg Perego is an Italian manufacturer of juvenile products . In addition to their home location in Italy, the company now has offices in Brazil, Canada, and the United States.-History:...
  
   (Juvenile products and toys)
• Technogym
  Technogym
  Technogym is a manufacturer of fitness equipment based in Cesena, Italy.It was founded in 1983 by Nerio Alessandri and now it is a world leader in the wellness and fitness fields.-History:...
  
   (fitness
  Physical fitness
  Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness , and specific fitness...
  
   equipment)

Office equipment

• Alessi (design objects)
• Aresline (Auditorium furniture)
• Arflex
  Arflex
  Arflex is an Italian company that makes and sells contemporary furniture.-The Company History:In 1947 a group of researchers and entrepreneurs who after the war had begun to work on two new upholstering materials – foam rubber and elastic tape made by Pirelli – presented the technical...
  
   (furniture
  Furniture
  Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
  
  )
• Ariston (white goods)
• Artemide
  Artemide
  ArtemideArtemis , in the religions of ancient Greece is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo. She was one of the most revered gods of Olympus and its origin dates back to ancient times. [1] In Roman times she was associated with Diana, while the Etruscans with the name...
  
   (design objects)
• Beghelli (electronics, mechanics)
• Berloni (furniture)
• Bracco S.p.A. (medical imaging equipment)
• B&B Italia
  B&B Italia
  B&B Italia SpA is an Italian modern furniture company whose luxury products are sold worldwide. The company was founded in 1966 by the Busnelli family, who currently manages the company. On March 1, 2011, the Busnelli family officially became majority shareholders of the company once again and now...
  
   (furniture)
• Candy
  Candy (company)
  Candy is an Italian company based in Brugherio, near Milan, which manufactures domestic appliances.-Early history:Candy Group is an Italian privately-owned multi-brand group of companies, among the world leaders in the household appliance industry: washing machines, dishwashers, dryers,...
  
   (white goods)
• Carpigiani
  Carpigiani
  Carpigiani is an Italian company, located near Bologna, specialising in the production of ice cream making machines.Brothers Bruto and Poeri Carlo Carpigiani created the famous "Gastecnica S.a.s dei fratelli Carpigiani" in 1944...
  
   (ice cream
  Ice cream
  Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
  
   machines)
• Cassina
  Cassina S.p.A.
  Cassina S.p. A. is an Italian manufacturing company specialised in the creation of high-end designer furniture.-Origins:The "Amedeo Cassina" company was created by the brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina in 1927 in Meda, Brianza,...
  
   (furniture)
• DeLonghi
  DeLonghi
  De'Longhi Group, or De'Longhi S.p.A, is a major European small appliance manufacturer based in Treviso, Italy.- History and trading :...
  
   (electronics, mechanics)
• Durst
  Durst
  Durst Phototechnik AG is a manufacturer of photographic and printing equipment, based in Brixen, Italy.-History:Established in 1936 by two brothers, Julius and Gilbert Durst, who were enthusiasts in the field of photography, encouraged by their mother, who was also a keen photographer and had her...
  
   (photographic and printing equipment)
• Della Valentino Office (office furniture)
• Gonzagarredi (Nursery,Pre school, library furniture)
• Ignis (electronics, mecanic)
• infinitidesign (furniture)
• Jacuzzi
  Jacuzzi
  Jacuzzi is a company that produces whirlpool bathtubs and spas. Its first product was a bath with massaging jets. The term "jacuzzi" is now often used generically to refer to any bathtub with massaging jets.-History:...
  
   (furniture)
• Manfrotto (photographic equipment)
• Olivetti
  Olivetti
  Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...
  
   (electronics, mechanics)
• OMAS
  OMAS
  OMAS is an Italian manufacturer of writing instruments, fountain pens, ink and related luxury goods, founded in 1925. Their products are in the upper price range of writing instruments and are still manufactured in their factory located in Bologna Italy....
  
   (pen
  Pen
  A pen is a device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib of some sort to be dipped in the ink. Ruling pens allow precise adjustment of line width, and still find a few specialized uses, but...
  
  s, office
  Office
  An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...
  
   accessories)
• Parafernalia (design objects)
• Rex (brand) (electronics, mechanics)
• Riv-Skf (mechanics)
• Scavolini (furniture)
• Smeg (appliances)
  Smeg (appliances)
  Smeg is an Italian manufacturer of upmarket domestic appliances.SMEG was founded by Vittorio Bertazzoni in 1948 as Smalterie Metallurgiche Emiliane Guastalla in the village of Guastalla, Reggio Emilia, Italy. The company is still in the private ownership of the Bertazzoni family, with Roberto...
  
   (domestic appliances)
• Zanussi
  Zanussi
  Zanussi is an Italian producer of home appliances that in 1984 was bought by Electrolux. Zanussi is a leading brand for domestic kitchen appliances in Europe. Products have been exported from Italy since 1946.-History:...
  
   (white goods) - owned by Electrolux
  Electrolux
  The Electrolux Group is a Swedish appliance maker.As of 2010 the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world after Whirlpool, its products sell under a variety of brand names including its own and are primarily major appliances and vacuum cleaners...
  
   of Sweden
• Zenith (brand) (pen
  Pen
  A pen is a device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib of some sort to be dipped in the ink. Ruling pens allow precise adjustment of line width, and still find a few specialized uses, but...
  
  s, office
  Office
  An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...
  
   accessories)

Pharmaceutical

• Angelini
  Angelini
  Angelini is an Italian pharmaceutical company founded by Francesco Angelini in 1919 in Ancona. The company is headquartered in Rome and has major facilities in Italy, Portugal, and Spain. A international company, it produces drugs which are sold in over 60 countries worldwide....
  
  
• Bracco
• Chiesi
• Dompé
• Fidia farmaceutici
• Giuliani
• Italchimici
• Menarini
  Menarini
  The Menarini Group is an Italian pharmaceutical company. It was founded in Naples, Italy, in 1886, and has three divisions: Menarini Ricerche, Menarini Biotech and Menarini Diagnostics. It is committed to the search for pharmacological solutions for such therapeutic areas as cardiovascular...
  
  
• Serono
  Serono
  Serono is a biotechnology company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded as the Serono Pharmacolodgical Institute by Cesare Serono in 1906 in Italy. A key step in its development was the discovery of a method of extracting urinary gonadotropins by Dr Piero Donini allowing...
  
  
• Sigma-Tau
  Sigma-Tau
  Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite, referred to as Sigma-Tau, emerges in 1957 from the entrepreneurial initiative of research chemist Claudio Cavazza...
  
  
• Zambon
  Zambon
  Zambon Group is a multinational pharmaceutical and chemical company founded in 1906, with headquarter in Bresso , Italy. It operates directly on three continents - Europe, South America and Asia....
  
  

Food

• Alemagna (food, panettone
  Panettone
  thumb|200px|right|A non-traditionally shaped panettone loaf.Panettone is a type of sweet bread loaf originally from Milan , usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Italy, Malta, Brazil, Germany and Switzerland, and is one of the symbols of the city of Milan. Maltese nationals are...
  
  )
• Algida
  Algida
  Algida is the name of a settlement in Ras al-Khaimah.-References:*Gazeteer of the United Arab Emirates. Washington, D.C. : Defense Mapping Agency, 1987....
  
   (food, ice cream
  Ice cream
  Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
  
  ) (part of Unilever
  Unilever
  Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
  
  )
• Asti (spumante wine)
• Barilla (food, pasta
  Pasta
  Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, now of worldwide renown. It takes the form of unleavened dough, made in Italy, mostly of durum wheat , water and sometimes eggs. Pasta comes in a variety of different shapes that serve for both decoration and to act as a carrier for the...
  
  )
• Berlucchi (spumante wine)
• Buitoni (food, pasta) (part of Nestlé
  Nestlé
  Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
  
  
• Campari
  Campari
  Campari is an alcoholic apéritif obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit in alcohol and water. It is a bitters characterized by its dark red color....
  
   (drink
  Drink
  A drink, or beverage, is a liquid which is specifically prepared for human consumption. In addition to fulfilling a basic human need, beverages form part of the culture of human society.-Water:...
  
  s)
• Carpano (drinks)
• Cinzano
  Cinzano
  Cinzano is an Italian brand of vermouth, a brand owned since 1999 by Gruppo Campari. It comes in four versions:*Cinzano Rosso, which is amber-coloured;*Cinzano Bianco, which is white and drier than Rosso, yet still considered a sweet vermouth;...
  
   (drinks)
• Cirio
  Cirio
  Cirio S.p.A. is a major Italian food company.It was founded in 1856 in Turin, Italy....
  
   (food)
• De Cecco
  De Cecco
  De Cecco is an Italian company producing dried pasta,flour and other related food products.- History :The company was founded in 1886 by the De Cecco brothers in the small town of Fara San Martino in the Abruzzo region of central Italy...
  
   (food, pasta)
• Ernesto Coppola & Figli
  Ernesto Coppola & Figli
  Ernesto Coppola & Figli is an Italian food company founded in 1952 to produce canned tomatoes and vegetables.The company is based in Mercato San Severino, close to Salerno in southern Italy, within the main Italian industrial tomato processing district...
  
   (canned tomatoes)
• Ferrero (food, Nutella
  Nutella
  Nutella is the brand name of a chocolate spread. Nutella, manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero, was introduced on the market in 1963. The recipe was developed from an earlier Ferrero spread released in 1944. Nutella is now sold in over 75 countries....
  
  )
• Galbani (dairy
  Dairy
  A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting of animal milk—mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on a dedicated dairy farm or section of a multi-purpose farm that is concerned...
  
  , cheese
  Cheese
  Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....
  
  )
• Gancia
  Gancia
  Gancia is an Italian wine-making company. It was founded in 1850 by Carlo Gancia in the Piemonte region of Italy, and was a pioneer in creating the first Italian sparkling wine...
  
   (spumante wine)
• Giacobazzi (wine
  Wine
  Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
  
  )
• Illy
  Illy
  illycaffè is a brand of coffee produced in Trieste, Italy.illy produces only one blend in three roast variations: normal, dark roast, and decaffeinated. The blend is packaged as whole beans, pre-ground coffee, E.S.E. pods, or iperEspresso Capsules....
  
   (coffee
  Coffee
  Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
  
  )
• Krifi (coffee)
• Lavazza
  Lavazza
  Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of coffee products. Founded in Turin in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza, it was initially run from a small grocery store at Via San Tommaso 10. The business of Lavazza S.p.A. is currently administered by the third and fourth generation of the Lavazza family.-...
  
   (coffee)
• Loacker
  Loacker
  Loacker is an Italian company based in South Tyrol. It was founded in 1926 as a family company by Alfons Loacker.Loacker has production facilities in Bolzano, Ritten and Heinfels . It is known for its confections, particularly for its Quadratini, thin cubes composed of wafers layered with sheets of...
  
   (snacks)
• Locatelli (dairy, cheese)
• Mokarabia (coffee)
• Martini & Rossi
  Martini & Rossi
  Martini & Rossi is an Italian multinational alcoholic beverage company primarily associated with the Martini brand of vermouth and also with sparkling wine . It also produces the French vermouth, Noilly Prat.-History:...
  
   (vermouth drinks)
• Meseta (coffee)
• Motta
  Motta
  Motta is a small town in Val Poschiavo, Grisons, Switzerland. It is located on the south side of Lago di Poschiavo....
  
   (food, panettone)
• Nuova Castelli S.p.A (cheese)
• Orsatti (confectionery)
• Ostoni
  Ostoni
  Ostoni is a manufacturer of plants, machines, dies, accessories and spare parts used in pasta production operations. The company produces, refurbishes and sells new and second-hand equipment world wide and is known especially for its machines for filled products...
  
   (pasta machines)
• Parmalat
  Parmalat
  Parmalat SpA is a multinational Italian dairy and food corporation. Having become the leading global company in the production of ultra high temperature milk, the company collapsed in 2003 with a €14 billion hole in its accounts in what remains Europe's biggest bankruptcy...
  
   (Dairy goods and snacks)
• Palmera
  Palmera
  Palmera is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....
  
   (food)
• Pascucci (coffee)
• Perfetti Van Melle
  Perfetti Van Melle
  Perfetti Van Melle is a privately held Italian global manufacturer of confectionery and gum. It was formed in 2001 with the acquisition of Van Melle of the Netherlands, by the Italian group Perfetti of Italy and having its corporate headquarters in Lainate , Italy.Perfetti Van Melle bills itself...
  
   (confectionery and gum)
• Perugina
  Perugina
  Perugina is an Italian confectionery company based in Perugia, Italy.The company was formed in 1907 by Giovanni Buitoni and Luisa Spagnoli, a confectioner in her own right, in the town of Perugia, in central Italy....
  
   (sweets, chocolate)
• Ramazzotti (drinks)
• Ricadonna
  Ricadonna
  Ricadonna is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe of comics.-Fictional character biography:Ricadonna is one of the main characters in the Daughters of the Dragon comic series. In the series, Ricadonna is a multi-billionaire. She is a mob-queen and enemy of Misty Knight...
  
   (spumante wine)
• San Pellegrino
  San Pellegrino
  San Pellegrino is a brand of mineral water with naturally occurring carbonation and additional carbonation added by the bottler, produced and bottled at San Pellegrino Terme, in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy...
  
   (drinks)
• Segafredo (coffee)
• Sella e Mosca (wine)
• Sperlari (candy
  Candy
  Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added...
  
  )
• Stappj
  Stappj
  Stappj is an Italian beverage soda beverage company. Despite the fact that the name appears to have a Scandinavian ring to it, it has no connection to anything Scandavian. It is actually the Molisan dialectal variant of the Italian "stappa", meaning "uncork"....
  
   (soft drinks)
• Tuaca
  Tuaca
  Tuaca is a brand of liqueur originally produced by the Tuoni and Canepa families of Livorno, Italy, and now produced by the Tuaca Liqueur Company of Louisville, Kentucky. The liqueur is sweet and golden brown in color. Its ingredients include brandy, essence of orange, and vanilla. Vanilla is the...
  
   (drinks)
• Voiello (food, pasta)

Apparel/Accessories

• 55dsl
  55dsl
  55DSL is a company founded in Italy as a 1994 spinoff from Diesel Clothing that sells male and female clothing in stores all around the world, including in the brand's own proprietary stores.-History:...
  
  
• A-style
• Alpinestars
  Alpinestars
  Alpinestars is a manufacturer of technical, high performance protective gear for motorcycle and auto racing , as well as action sports such as Mountain Biking and Surfing....
  
  
• Americanino
• Andrea Moda
  Andrea Moda
  Andrea Moda is an Italian fashion company, owned by shoe designer Andrea Sassetti. It is responsible for management of the Formula One constructor of same name....
  
  
• A. Testoni
• Benetton
  Benetton Group
  Benetton Group S.p.A. is a global luxury fashion brand, based in Treviso, Italy. The name comes from the Benetton family who founded the company in 1965. Benetton Group is listed in Milan....
  
  
• Berluti
  Berluti
  Berluti is a company that manufactures and retails a very exclusive luxury brand of shoes and boots solely for men. It is known for its unique leather finishing. It also makes and sells a line of leather goods such as belts, bags, and wallets with similar finish.It is based in Paris on the rue...
  
  
• Bettanin & Venturi
  Bettanin & Venturi
  Bettanin & Venturi is an Italian family and artisan company that manufactures exclusive luxury men's shoes. Founded by Giuseppe Bettanin and Gianna Venturi, Bettanin & Venturi's workshop is located in Vigasio in the Province of Verona ....
  
  
• Blufin (Blumarine)
• Bolgheri
  Bolgheri
  Bolgheri is located in the comune of Castagneto Carducci, a few kilometers north-west of the capital and lies in the Province of Livorno, on the foothills of the Colline Metallifere, south of Montescudaio.-Wine:...
  
  
• Bontoni
  Bontoni
  Bontoni is a third-generation Italian family company that produces a line of hand-made men's dress shoes. The company produces fewer than 10 pair a day. Bontoni's bottega, or workshop, is located in the Marche region of Italy. It takes about twelve weeks to complete a pair of ready-made and five...
  
  
• Borbonese
• Borsalino
  Borsalino
  Borsalino is the name of a hat company known particularly for its fedoras. Established in 1857, Borsalino produces felt from Belgian rabbit fur at its factory in Alessandria, Italy....
  
  
• Luigi Borrelli
  Luigi Borrelli
  Luigi Borrelli is a high quality shirt maker in Naples, Italy. Luigi Borrelli started the company in 1957 after learning the trade from his mother, Anna Borrelli, in 1940s....
  
  
• Bottega Veneta
  Bottega Veneta
  Bottega Veneta is an Italian luxury goods house best known for its leather goods. Founded in 1966, it was purchased in 2001 by Gucci Group, now a part of the French multinational group PPR. Bottega Veneta is headquartered in Vicenza, in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy.- History :Bottega...
  
  
• Braccialini
  Braccialini
  Braccialini is a 50-year old leather accessories company based in Florence, Italy. The company operates in 40 countries with 50 mono brand stores globally -History:...
  
  
• Brioni
• Bulgari
  Bulgari
  Bulgari is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer which has been owned by the French firm LVMH since October 2011. The trademark is usually written "BVLGARI" in the classical Latin alphabet , and is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirio Voulgaris...
  
  
• Calzaturificio di Varese
• Canali
  Canali
  Canali is a clothing company based in Italy specialising in men's clothing.-History:In 1934, the brothers Giovanni and Giacomo Canali founded a tailoring workshop dedicated to the manufacture of high quality clothing. In the 1950s, with the contributions of the family's second generation, sales...
  
  
• Cantarelli
• Roberto Cavalli
  Roberto Cavalli
  Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer from Florence.-Biography:Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence, Tuscany. His grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, was a member of the Macchiaioli Movement, whose work is exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery. Cavalli decided to enroll at the local Art Institute,...
  
  
• Davide Cenci
• Della Valle
• Diadora
  Diadora
  Diadora is an Italian football, tennis, running, cycling, rugby, athletic shoe, clothing, and fashion accessory manufacturer with locations in Italy, the United States, and Hong Kong.-History:...
  
  
• Diana (swimwear)
  Diana (swimwear)
  Diana is an Italian manufacturer of swimwear established in 1947....
  
  
• Diesel
  Diesel (clothing company)
  Diesel S.p.A. is an Italian design company. It is best known for luxury, pret-a-porter clothing aimed at the young adult market. The company is owned by its founder Renzo Rosso, and is based in Breganze in northern Italy.-History:...
  
  
• Dolce & Gabbana
  Dolce & Gabbana
  Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....
  
  
• Ellesse
  Ellesse
  -History:Ellesse was founded by Leonardo Servadio in Perugia in 1959. The name Ellesse derives from the initials of Servadio's name, "L.S."Ellesse grew in popularity during the 1970s as a producer of skiwear such as quilted jackets and ski pants...
  
  
• Energie
• Erreà
  Erreà
  Erreà is a sportswear trademark founded in 1988, in Torrile...
  
  
• Etro
  Etro
  Etro is an Italian fashion house and manufacturer of fabrics, furnishings and fragrances. It was founded in 1968 by Gimmo Etro. It is still a family business, with menswear headed since 1990 by Kean Etro, while his sister, Veronica, directs womenswear...
  
  
• Fendi
  Fendi
  Fendi is an Italian high fashion house best known for its "baguette" handbags. It was launched in 1925 as a fur and leather shop in Rome, but today is a multinational luxury goods brand owned by LVMH...
  
  
• Fiorucci
  Fiorucci
  Fiorucci is an Italian fashion label founded by Elio Fiorucci in 1967. The first shop exposed Milan to the styles of Swinging London and American classics such as the T-shirt and jeans. By the late 1970s and early 1980s this would be reversed, and the New York store would become famous for the...
  
  
• Frette
  Frette
  Frette is an Italian textile company known for its luxury linens. It was established in 1860 in Grenoble, France but relocated to Concorezzo, Italy in 1865. It is currently headquartered in Monza, Italy....
  
  
• Furla
• Salvatore Ferragamo
  Salvatore Ferragamo
  Salvatore Ferragamo was a Florentine and Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. His scientific and creative approach to shoes spawned many innovations such as the wedge heel...
  
  
• Gas Jeans
  Gas jeans
  GAS is a men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, footwear and accessories brand registered in 1984 by Grotto S.p.A., the family business founded in the early 70s in Chiuppano , in the heart of north-east Italy, by Claudio Grotto, the company’s President.Denim is GAS’s core business, the element...
  
  
• Geox
  Geox
  Geox is an Italian brand of shoe and apparel manufactured utilising waterproof/breathable fabrics.-Corporate history:The company was founded in 1995 by Mario Moretti Polegato. The brand name, Geox, was created from a mixture between the Greek word “geo” , and “x”, a letter-element symbolizing...
  
  
• Gucci
  Gucci
  The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci , is an Italian fashion and leather goods label, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company PPR...
  
  
• Incotex
• Invicta
• Isaia
• Kappa (company)
  Kappa (company)
  Kappa is an Italian company specialized at the manufacture of sporting clothes and accessories, that started as a sock and underwear manufacturer in 1916 in Turin.-Logo:...
  
  
• Kiton
  Kiton
  Kiton is a clothing company founded in 1968 in Naples, Italy by Ciro Paone. It opened its US$40 million New York flagship and showroom on East 54th Street in 2004, it also opened a shop in London. Like many other fashion brands, Kiton has diversified to include sportswear, footwear, fragrances,...
  
  
• La Perla
• Les Copains
• Loro Piana
  Loro Piana
  Loro Piana is an Italian clothing company specialising in high-end, luxury cashmere and wool products.-History:Originally from Trivero , the Loro Piana family started as merchants of wool fabrics at the beginning of the nineteenth century...
  
  
• Lotto Sport Italia
  Lotto Sport Italia
  Lotto Sport Italia is an Italian sports apparel manufacturer. Its products are now distributed in more than 60 countries.-History:Lotto was established in 1973 by the Caberlotto family in Montebelluna, northern Italy, the world centre of footwear manufacturing. In June 1973, Lotto made its debut...
  
  
• Luxottica
  Luxottica
  Luxottica Group S.p.A. is the world's largest eyewear company. Its best known brands include Ray-Ban, Persol and Oakley, Inc.. It also makes sunglasses and prescription frames for a multitude of designer brands such as Chanel and Prada, whose designs and trademarks are used under license...
  
  
• Mandarina Duck
  Mandarina Duck
  Mandarina Duck is an Italian fashion brand, most commonly associated with designer luggage and travel accessories. Its headquarters are in Bologna, Italy, and also has branches in Paris, Barcelona, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Vienna and London also with outlets such as Banbridge Outlet in Northern Ireland...
  
  
• Marzotto
  Marzotto
  The Marzotto Group is an Italian textile manufacturer, based in Valdagno.Created in 1836 as the Lanificio Luigi Marzotto & Figli. In 2005 Marzotto Group's textile business separated from Valentino Fashion Group....
  
  
• Max Mara
  Max Mara
  MaxMara, or The House of MaxMara, is a luxury Italian fashion house known for its ready-to-wear clothing. Established in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti...
  
  
• Miss Sixty
• Morellato
• Moschino
  Moschino
  Moschino is an Italian fashion design house and manufacturer of women's, men's and children's fashion.-History:The brand was originally created in 1983 by the late Franco Moschino...
  
  
• Navigare
• Nordica (Company)
  Nordica (Company)
  Based in Treviso, Italy under the Tecnica Group, the Nordica brand manufactures skis, ski boots, and accessories for skiing....
  
  
• Officina del tempo
• Onyx
• Cesare Paciotti
  Cesare Paciotti
  Cesare Paciotti is a shoe designer from Italy. His eponymous company makes luxury shoes and other leather goods, and is famous for its dagger logo.-Biography:...
  
  
• Panerai
  Panerai
  Officine Panerai Marketing e Communicazioni Srl, a wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., designs, manufactures, markets and sells watches under the Officine Panerai brand through authorized dealers and company-owned boutiques worldwide. Giovanni Panerai founded Officine...
  
  
• Parafernalia
• Phard
• Police (brand)
  Police (brand)
  Police is an Italian manufacturer of fashion accessories. Launched in 1983, the company was initially specializing in designing sunglasses.In 1997 Police launched their first perfumes set and in 2003 – their first watch collection...
  
  
• Prada
  Prada
  Prada S.p.A. is an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women , founded by Mario Prada.-Foundations:...
  
  
• Replay
• Rifle
  Rifle (fashion)
  Rifle is an Italian clothing company founded in 1958 in Prato. They were most famous for their jeans during the 1980s, especially in the USSR, Bulgaria, and the rest of Eastern Europe.External Links# http://www.riflejeans.com/...
  
  
• Rudy Project
• Shy
  Shy (company)
  SHY is an Italian owned fashion label specialising in women's shoes and handbags. It was founded in Riviera del Brenta, Venice in 2001. SHY are considered high fashion and have very few stores, all of which are within Europe...
  
  
• Stefanel
• Superga
  Superga (brand)
  Superga is an Italian brand of shoes founded in 1913. It originally made tennis shoes, including the famous model "2750 Classic" but then diversified.-History:...
  
  
• Sergio Rossi
  Sergio Rossi
  Sergio Rossi is an Italian fashion designer and distributor of women's shoes and handbags, as well as a limited range of men's shoes. The Sergio Rossi label is owned by the French conglomerate PPR.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sergio Tacchini
  Sergio Tacchini
  Sergio Tacchini is an Italian fashion designer of sportswear and former professional tennis player. The sportswear firm bearing his name is located in Bellinzago Novarese, Novara, Italy.- Tennis career :...
  
  
• Tod's
  Tod's
  Tod's Group is an Italian company which produces shoes and other leather goods, and is presided over by businessman Diego Della Valle. It is most famous for its driving shoes....
  
  
• Trussardi
• Truzzi
• Valentino
  Valentino SpA
  Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. Nowadays it is a part of Valentino Fashion Group. New creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli will take Alessandra Facchinetti's seat as creative designer...
  
  
• Valleverde
• Via Spiga
• Vibram
  Vibram
  Vibram S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Albizzate that both manufactures and licenses the production of Vibram-branded rubber outsoles for footwear. The company is named after its founder, Vitale Bramani. Bramani is credited with inventing the first rubber lug soles for shoes...
  
  
• Visconti di Modrone
• Ermenegildo Zegna
  Ermenegildo Zegna
  Ermenegildo Zegna is a leading Italian fashion house, specialing in men's clothing. Founded in 1910, it is now managed by the fourth generation of the Zegna family and remains in family ownership. As well as producing suits for its own labels, it manufactures suits for labels such as Gucci, Yves...
  
  

Real estate

• Aedes
  Aedes
  Aedes is a genus of mosquito originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but now found on all continents excluding Antarctica. Some species have been spread by human activity. Aedes albopictus, a most invasive species was recently spread to the New World, including the U.S., by the used...
  
  
• Beni Stabili
• Brioschi
• Cambiocasa
  Cambiocasa
  Cambiocasa is a European commercial property consultancy company founded by Francesco Trombiero in 1995....
  
  
• CDS Holding
  CDS Holding
  CDS Holding is an Italian property developer that invest, develops and constructs exclusively retail real estate projects in Italy.-History:...
  
  
• IGD SIIQ
• IPI
• Prelios
• Società Generale Immobiliare
  Società Generale Immobiliare
  Società Generale Immobiliare was the largest Italian real estate and construction company. It was founded in Turin in 1862 but then moved to Rome in 1870 with the unification of Italy. After moving to Rome, the company became interested in the pastoral land around Rome and ended up buying it. ...
  
  
• Uniland
• Vailog