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| Owner | Bialetti Industries |
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| Country | Italy |
| Introduced | 1933 |
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| Previous owners | Alfonso Bialetti |
| Website | bialetti.com |
Bialetti is an Italian brand of coffee machines, cookware and small kitchen appliances founded by Alfonso Bialetti. The brand is owned by Bialetti Industries.
Alfonso Bialetti first acquired his metal-working skills by working for a decade in the French aluminium industry. [1] By 1919 he had established his own metal and machine workshop in Crusinallo (in his native Piedmont) to make aluminium products: this was the foundation of the Bialetti company. [1] [2] He transformed his workshop – Alfonso Bialetti & C. Fonderia in Conchiglia – into a studio for design and production. [2] In 1933, Bialetti founded the brand and focused on manufacturing moka pots. The company was later operated by his son Renato Bialetti. [3]
After a period of crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, Bialetti merged with Rondine Italia in 1993 [4] and founded a new company named Bialetti Industrie S.p.A., based in Brescia. [5]
Francesco Ranzoni acts as both President and CEO of the company. [6]
At the end of 2015, the company's income statement registered a total revenue of €172.4 million, 6.9% more than 2014 (€161.2 million). [7]
In 2010, a study calculated that 90% of Italian families own a moka pot made by Bialetti. [8]
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