Tecnica Group is a sport equipment manufacturer in the market of footwear and winter sports equipment founded in

Giavera del Montello Giavera del Montello is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italy, Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Treviso. Giavera del Montello borders the following municipalities: Arca ...

Treviso, Italy Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

. Tecnica Group brands include

Blizzard A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility, lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically at least three or four hours. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling b ...

, Lowa, Moon Boot, Nordica,

Rollerblade Rollerblade is a brand of inline skates owned by Nordica, part of the Tecnica Group of Giavera del Montello, Treviso, Italy. The company was started by Scott Olson (b. 1960), Brennan Olson (b. 1964) and Christopher Middlebrook in Minneapolis a ...

, and Tecnica.

History

Tecnica Group was established in the 1960s. Over the years several additional brands became part of the Group and today it covers various product categories, specifically footwear, ski boots,

ski A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partial ...

s, outdoor and inline skates. In 1930 Oreste Zanatta founded a small shop focused on working boots production, that officially became in 1960 the Calzaturificio Tecnica SpA. Over the following ten years, Tecnica expanded its business and created the first Moon Boot. In 1985 Tecnica entered the outdoor footwear market. This happened through the purchase, in 1993, of LOWA, the historical outdoor shoemaker in Germany. In 2002, with the acquisition of Nordica, Tecnica Group became the first world producer of ski boots. In 2003, the product range was extended further after

, the inventor of inline skating, was acquired. The latest arrival in 2006 has been the Austrian brand Blizzard – a ski producer. Historically owned by the Zanatta family, from 2017 the company has expanded the corporate structure to Italmobiliare, which has acquired 40% of the Group's investments. In 2019 the group acquired Riko Sport, Lowa's main footwear supplier. The Group's Chairman is Alberto Zanatta, son of the founder Giancarlo, who is still a board member. In 2021 Giovanni Zoppas became CEO and General Manager.

References

External links

Official website
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