Italy is today the seventh industrial power in the world. Its industry shares nearly 24% in its GDP. The main driving sectors are mechanics, chemistry, electronics, as well as textiles, fashion and food industry.
Yet beyond large companies, our productive structure is mainly based on a diffused connective tissue of industrious [...]
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Italy is today the seventh industrial power in the world. Its industry shares nearly 24% in its GDP. The main driving sectors are mechanics, chemistry, electronics, as well as textiles, fashion and food industry.
Yet beyond large companies, our productive structure is mainly based on a diffused connective tissue of industrious small and medium firms.
Thanks even to the stimulus of the opening towards Europe (trade and currency), Made in Italy could impose itself by its wonderful vitality and the flexibility of a system, where the skill of the entrepreneurs can face the complex phenomenon of globalization.
It would be hard to catalogue, in so few lines, the most prestigious brands by which Italian industry makes a name for itself all the world over. Those include various sectors, from high fashion to design, from oenogastronomy to mechanics. Nearly obliged references: Fiat, Ferrari, Pininfarina (automotive design, niche vehicles, means of transportation), as well as Ducati itself in Bologna (motorbikes). In the sailing sector, luxury boats of Ferretti excel. In the field of domestic design and furnishing, here you are Alessi, Boffi, Cassina, Natuzzi (Divani & Divani) and Poltrona Fau.
As for fashion, designer clothes, collections and accessories, uncountable important brands: Armani, Dolce&Gabbana, Loro Piana (cashmere clothes), Mariella Burani, Marni, Prada, Tod’s, Valentino, Versace, Bulgari (jewellery), Zegna (valuable textiles, garments). At last, as for Food & Beverage, we will just mention the classics: Campari, San Pellegrino, Ferrari (sparkling wines) and Illy (coffee).