Garlando
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Garlando S.r.l | |
 |
|
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1954 |
| Headquarters |  Novi Ligure, Italy |
| Key people | Giuseppe Garlando, Managing Director |
| Industry | Table Sports Manufacturing |
| Products | Table Football, Pool and Billiard Tables |
| Slogan | Leader in pool and football tables |
| Website | Garlando.it |
Garlando is a company based in Italy that produces Pool and Table Football tables.
[edit] 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 market for the production of various wood objects. An activity that he, in his turn, had inherited from his father.
Following the success of the Table Football coming from France, Renato Garlando decided to try and produce them and the success his products has among the Italian public is so large as it was unexpected. The company had definitely put the basis for its future.
From then on, the company continuously grew. Foreign countries were added to the Italian market, overseas, to the United States, where the Garlando Football Tables had a real boom in the Seventies.
During this time, pool tables are started to be manufactured with the same success as Table Football.
In the course of the Eighties, the current managing director, Giuseppe Garlando, took the lead and, with his brother Marino, began renovating the working procedures which, from still largely craftsmanlike, become industrialised and standardised.
In the same period the factory dimensions enlarged, the number of the employees increased, while they become more and more skilled, new computerised machinery is purchased to reach the utmost precision in the output, new foreign markets are open on which Garlando soon becomes a leader.
In the Nineties new steps were taken while the turnover takes off, the North African and East Europe markets were added, the product range was expanded to meet the requirements of new segments of public.
To meet more and more urgent production requirements, late in 2002 the company leaves Spinetta Marengo to move to the much more modern premises at Pozzolo Formigaro, near Novi Ligure, a dozen kilometres from the old site.
The company now covers a 10,000 square metres area, is equipped with the most modern machines to work the wood as well as to mould the plastic and employs over 60 people, both for the office and the factory.
