THE HISTORY

1923: THE BEGINNING.

In Bagnolo Mella, Northern Italy, Italo Facenti begins to produce high quality knitted socks for man, using the finest yarns available: Pure Silk and Cotton Lisle Fil d’Ecosse. Shortly “Calzificio Facenti” becomes a true hallmark of elegance and refinement.

1926: THE HOSIERY MILL.

In the very heart of the town the building of the premises starts, using hand-made bricks that are baked on site. The new mill can accommodate the manufacturing plant, the warehouse and the offices. The company’s headquarters remain in the original facilities up to 2000.

1945: THE SECOND GENERATION.

The II World War is over and Luigi, Italo’s son gradually succeeds his father in the family company. Those are the times when new synthetic fibers are invented and almost every producer realizes that the future is women’s legware. Italy is the world’s largest men’s socks producer and the area near Brescia that houses the firm is an integrated and self contained industrial district, where 80% of the world’s socks-making machinery is manufactured. “Calzificio Facenti” continues to thrive and their name is then nation known.

1985: THE THIRD GENERATION.

Luigi passes his reins down to his two daughters Claudia and Michela. A new management style and a refreshed breed of creativity, sophistication and quality of the products launch the company into new fashion markets.

2000: THE NEW PREMISES.

Claudia and Michela managing the company into the new millennium move to the new production and warehousing site, just a few minutes away from the historical headquarters.

THE COMPANY TODAY

A state of the art IT assisted production cycle enables a fully trackable and traceable product system which reduces dramatically possible delivery delays and manufacturing faults. The purchasing department is backed up by a stringent quality service (UNI EN ISO 9001 2000 certificate since 2001), which can manage the most diverse style researches and the most innovative raw materials. The knitting department consists of updated single and double cylinder machines that can produce gauges from 3 to 26 and almost any design, decoration and appliques of the standard lines and of the two yearly summer and winter collections. The finishing and packaging departments do check the quality of the single pairs of socks.

Here are some figures

3.000.000 pairs of socks produced yearly;

40 standard articles manufactured using the most different yarns, from cotton to cashmere;

150 designed and made to measure articles for the most prestigious italian and foreign brands.

2yearly summer and winter collections designed by the in-house style department.