| 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 and pocket billiards tables |
| Website | Garlando.it |
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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. Alessandria ( Lissandria in Piedmontese) is a city in Piedmont Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. An activity that he, in his turn, had inherited from his father.
Following the success in Italy of table football, originating in Spain and/or France, Renato Garlando decided to produce them, and had unexpected success in the Italian market. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
From then on, the company continuously grew. Foreign countries were added to the domestic revenue, including overseas to the United States, where the Garlando football tables experienced a boom in the 1970s. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
During this time, Garlando began manufacturing pool tables with the same domestic success as with table football equipment. A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards-type games
In the course of the 1980s, the current managing director, Giuseppe Garlando, took the lead and, with his brother Marino, began renovating the working procedures which, from still largely craftsmanlike, became 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 1990s, the North Africa and Eastern Europe markets were tapped, and the product range was expanded to meet the requirements of new segments of public. North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent.
To meet more and more urgent production requirements, late in 2002 the company left Spinetta Marengo to move to their much more modern premises at Pozzolo Formigaro, near Novi Ligure, a dozen kilometres from the old site. Novi Ligure ( Neuve in Ligurian) is a town north of Genoa, in the Piedmont region of the Province of Alessandria of northwest
The company now covers a 10,000 square metre area, equipped with the most modern machines to work the wood as well as to mould the plastic. The new location employs over 60 people, both for the office and the factory.
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