Bialetti is an Italian brand of coffee machines, cookware and small kitchen appliances founded by Alfonso Bialetti. The brand is owned by Bialetti Industries.
History
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]
