FULGOR Milano (pronounced "Full-goar Miˈla‧no") is a registered trademark of Meneghetti S.p.a., an Italian manufacturer of premium
major appliance
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s and ceramic glass grills. Fulgor's global headquarters are located in Rosa, Italy; near Bassano Del Grappa in Italy's
Veneto Region
Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is the region's capi ...
. The company's products compete with those made by companies
Sub-Zero,
Bosch,
Thermador
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,
Dacor,
Miele
Miele ( ; ) is a German manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances and commercial equipment, headquartered in Gütersloh, Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The company was founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann, and has always been a family ...
,
Viking Range
Viking Range Corporation is an American appliance company that manufactures kitchen appliances for residential and commercial use. Today the company offers three complete lines of premium appliances including cooking, ventilation, kitchen clean- ...
, or
Smeg.
History
Fulgor was founded by Piero Puricelli in 1949 shortly after he began working on a coal-powered cooker he hoped to develop. Piero chose the name Fulgor for his budding company because of its Latin meaning; "to shine". The company began mass-producing their first line of coal-powered cookers, or ranges as they're known in North America, in 1955. Beginning later, in 1974, Fulgor began production of built-in gas cooktops and electric wall ovens. In the early 1990s, the company became one of the first manufacturers to introduce "gas on glass" cooktops and self-cleaning wall ovens. By 1994 Fulgor's products had caught the eye of many key global appliance brands, and the company began exporting its product to North America and other parts of Europe.
Original Equipment Manufacturing & Private Label
Before pushing for greater exposure of their own branded line of appliances in the early 2000s, Fulgor was historically known a key global finished goods supplier to several of the major appliance brands in Europe and North America. In Europe, Fulgor has supplied finished product to the following manufacturing & retail brands:
Whirlpool Europe,
Auchan
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With 354,851 employees, of which 261,000 have 5% ...
, BUT,
Carrefour
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, Conforama,
Corte Ingles, Electric Depot and Ocean, among others. In North America, Fulgor was the first European brand to export cooking appliances to North American manufacturing brands. To date, the company has worked with brands like
KitchenAid
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,
GE Monogram,
Bosch,
Viking Range
Viking Range Corporation is an American appliance company that manufactures kitchen appliances for residential and commercial use. Today the company offers three complete lines of premium appliances including cooking, ventilation, kitchen clean- ...
and
Fagor
Fagor Electrodoméstico was a large domestic and commercial appliance manufacturer based in the Basque Country, Spain and run by the Mondragon Corporation. Fagor was Spain's largest consumer appliance company and the fifth largest electrical a ...
. Fulgor used to be marketed in North America under the FCI label.
Fulgor Global
As of 2009, Fulgor operated eight sales offices globally, according to their company website. The company sells its products across Europe, North America and Australia, in at least 15 separate nations. The company's North American division was first opened in 2005, and later reorganized under the name Fulgor USA, LLC in 2008 with the slogan "arte culinaria", Italian for "culinary art". In North America, Fulgor Milano is sold through exclusive premium appliance distributors. The current product line in
North America
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consists of professional ranges, built in ovens, gas and electric cooktops, microwaves, dishwashers and refrigeration.
See also
*
List of Italian companies
Italy is a Unitary state, unitary parliamentary republic in Europe with the third largest nominal Gross domestic product, GDP in the Eurozone and the eighth List of countries by GDP (nominal), largest in the world. As an advanced economy, the cou ...
References
External links
Fulgor Milano Official Website
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