company was founded in 1921, this year marks the Guccio Gucci just return home from overseas work experience in the Italian lessons, and in the opening of its first shop in Florence. Mainly to the sale of handicrafts made with superior leather goods in Florence.
in a few years, Florence shop attracted many international customers with unique tastes, driven by the unprecedented success of Gucci's rapid expansion, and in 1938 in Rome, Via Condotti opening new branches.
thirties, Guccio Gucci founded the Azienda Individuale Gucci, 1939 was transferred called Societa Anonima Guccio Gucci. At first, his son Aldo, Ugo, and Vasco have a small portion of the company's shares. The fourth son Rodolfo was later to give up their career to join the family business.
Guccio Gucci's death in 1953 coincided with the company at the age of the most prominent, shop around overseas, but Gucci's products have become global celebrities favorite.
the eighties, the company began to experience difficult times, Rodolfo Gucci as the company's chairman just put the business for a short time transferred to his son Maurizio, and Maurizio also started to restructure the company's business plan.
in 1989, Investcorp SA Bahrain as a base, but also business located in London and New York banks, Aldo Gucci and its descendants acquired 50% Gucci shares held, and Maurizio Gucci continued to own the remaining 50% of the shares and continue to manage the company's operations.
Four years later, in August 1993 when Gucci's business is in high-risk period, Maurizio Gucci interests for the company, decided to all of the remaining 50% of the shares sold to Investcorp, and officially left the company.
the use of internal resources, Gucci in a short period of three years begins with the face of adversity to recover. Domenico De Sole and Tom Ford is restructuring an important figure in the company. De Sole in 1984 began managing Gucci American Inc., He is very familiar with the internal operation of the company, and in 1995, Gucci Group NV has been appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of operation. Tom Ford were appointed as Creative Director, Gucci and re-positioning.
the financial data to show strong revenue growth, in October 1995, Investcorp decided to Gucci Group NV's 48.2% stake in New York and Amsterdam Stock Exchange, and received by the market, Investcorp in later 5 months after the listing of the remaining 51.8% of the shares, to its hands full reduction of Gucci shares, the ownership of Gucci into a decentralized company.
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