Ermenegildo Zegna

Ermenegildo Zegna ( eɾmene ˌ ʤildo ʣeɲɲa ) or the Ermenegildo Zegna Hold Italia SpA based in Trivero is named after its founder, Italian vertically integrated fashion and textile company owned by the Zegna family, which designs since 1910 fine fabrics since 1968 and men's fashion in the upper price segment, produced and sold.

History

The name is derived from the founder of the company, the tailor and entrepreneur Ermenegildo Zegna (1892-1966), who built from 1910 as a 18- year-old in the fabric weaving his father Angelo Zegna, who was actually a watchmaker and a small company with four looms had got into Trivero. In the same year founded Ermenegildo - the youngest of 10 children - the Lanificio Zegna ( Zegna wool mill dt ), took over after his father's death in 1923, the factory and began producing high-quality fabrics. By the year 1930 the company was already on 1000 employees grew and produced predominantly fine suiting fabrics. In 1938, Zegna fabrics were exported to the USA and delivered after the Second World War in 40 countries. With the death of Ermenegildo Zegna in 1966, his sons Aldo ( 1920-2000 ) and Angelo took over (* 1924) operation. From 1968, also own suit collections were offered initially only in standard sizes and in 1972 finally as a tailor-made suits (Su Misura ). To date, Zegna produces menswear. As part of the expansion of the firm at the end of the 20th century, however, the luxury label was Agnona 1999 ( founded 1953 in Agnona ) purchased, which produces exclusively women's fashion.

Products

The product range has been expanded steadily until today and besides suits also includes shirts, casual wear, shoes, accessories, etc. Certain items of the collections are thereby developed, manufactured and marketed by licensees, such as eyeglasses (since 2004 License to De Rigo ), underwear ( from 2006 Perofil ) or watches (from 2010 Sowind ). Since 2003, various men's fragrances are offered under the brand Zegna. The perfume was licensee from 2003 YSL Beauté initially and from 2011 Estée Lauder.

Collections

  • Ermenegildo Zegna - high-priced Main Collection Zegna Sartorial - elegant business clothes
  • Zegna Upper Casual - exquisite leisure clothing
  • Zegna Couture - Luxury Collection in the top price segment (until 2005: Napoli Couture )
  • Ermenegildo Zegna Su Misura - (German made) custom tailor service within the main line (since 1972)

The collections of the two brands Ermenegildo Zegna and Zegna Sport has been designed by the end of 2012 from internal design teams. On 1 January 2013, the former Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati from Milan was appointed Creative Director of Ermenegildo Zegna and Agnona. Z Zegna has its own chief designer. This role took over from 2003 ( for the 2004 season ) to 2011, the Italian Alessandro Sartori (1967 ), which switched to Berluti 2011. His successor was the Briton Paul Surridge, a former Jil Sander designer. Since 2008, Ermenegildo Zegna will be presented and the Z Zegna collections separately at the Milan fashion weeks.

Exclusively for the Japanese market was the medium -priced brand EZ by Zegna license introduced in 1997 in collaboration with the textile manufacturer Sanyo Shokai for young gentlemen, for there were separate shops also. As early as 1993 there had been this label on the U.S. market under the Designer Kim Herring.

Zegna sells his self-produced materials to other internationally renowned fashion companies. There is also, inter alia, a manufacturing cooperative named veže with the fashion house Versace and its men's and women's line Versace Collection, and also since 2006 by Tom Ford designed menswear produced by Zegna. From 2000 to 2010, there was a joint venture with Giorgio Armani Armani Collezioni regarding the production of men's collection. In the field of leather goods and footwear Zegna collaborates since 2002 through the joint venture ZEFER with Salvatore Ferragamo.

Business

The company is firmly in the hands of the Zegna family. The key positions are held by the grandchildren of Ermenegildo Zegna:

  • Ermenengildo ' Gildo ' Zegna ( b. 1955, son of Angelo Zegna, since 1982 the company ) is the CEO of the Zegna Group
  • Anna Zegna ( born 1957, daughter of Angelo Zegna ) is Image Director of Zegna and at the same time President of the Fondazione Zegna founded in 2000,
  • Paolo Zegna (* 1956, son of Aldo Zegna ) is chairman of the Zegna Group
  • Laura Zegna ( born 1950, daughter of Aldo Zegna ) is head of the Oasi Zegna ( established in 1993 Nature Park to 100 km ² in Treviro )
  • Benedetta Zegna (born 1965, daughter of Angelo Zegna ) is the head of Zegna seller School
  • Renata Zegna Schneider (daughter of Aldo Zegna ) is a member of the Board of Directors, her husband is one of the largest raw material dealers in the world and a supplier to the Zegna Group

It is held by contract but not yet happen that a Zegna family member his company shares only to other family members - must sell - " with a painful price discount ."

Zegna employs over 7,000 people - including to its own production sites in Italy, Spain ( since 1973), Switzerland ( since 1977), Turkey and Mexico - and for example, produces about 350,000 suits, a million pieces outdoorsy and a half million Scarves annually. In the Lanificio Zegna in Treviro where the materials are produced, used for approximately 450 employees and produce about two million meters of fabric per year. In 2003 the company " not to the production to relocate to China," acquired a 50 % stake in the Chinese Herrenbekleider Sharmoon, by its own account but to be firmly established in the Chinese market, but. The company drives the expansion in China, bwps. with boutique openings, continues.

Zegna controlled with its own products from the purchasing of raw materials to the production of materials to the design and sale of finished goods, the entire value chain. 2008, nearly forty percent ( 38% ) of sales in the EMEA region were made as much in Asia / Australia (36%), 22% in North America and 4% in Latin America. 2011, it operated Zegna in about 40 countries around the world 557 stores, including more than 300 in-house. The first German boutique was opened in Dusseldorf 2000; since then there have Zegna stores in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. In 2010 the company celebrated its 100th anniversary. The end of 2010 Zegna launched on its own website with an online store for the main collection and the Zegna Sport line.

The annual turnover of the Zegna Group in 2008 amounted to 870.6 million euros ( net profit 62.3 million euros ) and 2009 at 797 million euros ( net profit 17.3 million euros ). For fiscal 2011, the company was able to sales of 1.13 billion euros and a net profit of 115 million euros ( EBITDA: EUR 233 million ) show.

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