Bialetti is an Italian brand founded by

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that makes

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machines, cookware and small kitchen appliances. The brand is owned by Bialetti Industries.

History

Alfonso Bialetti first acquired his

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skills by working for a decade in the French

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'', Vol. 28, No. 1, 2001. Retrieved on 2005-10-27. By 1919 he had established his own metal and machine workshop in Crusinallo (in his native

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Bialetti Industrie S.p.A. Bialetti is an Italian brand founded by Alfonso Bialetti that makes coffee machines, cookware and small kitchen appliances. The brand is owned by Bialetti Industries. History Alfonso Bialetti first acquired his metal-working skills by working f ...

''. Retrieved on 2005-10-27 He transformed his workshop – Alfonso Bialetti & C. Fonderia in Conchiglia – into a studio for design and production. In 1933, Bialetti founded the brand and focused on manufacturing

moka pot The moka pot is a stove-top or electric coffee maker that brews coffee by passing boiling water pressurized by steam through ground coffee. Named after the Yemeni city of Mocha, it was invented by Italian engineer Alfonso Bialetti in 1933 and ...

s. The company was later operated by his son Renato Bialetti. After a period of crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, Bialetti merged with Rondine Italia in 1993 and founded a new company named Bialetti Industrie S.p.A., based in

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. Francesco Ranzoni acts as both President and CEO of the company. At the end of 2015, the company's income statement registers a total revenue of 172.4 million of euro, 6.9% more than 2014 (Euro 161.2 million). In 2010, a study calculated that 90% of Italian families own a moka pot made by Bialetti.

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