Stucchi

Company set up in 1939 when Alberto Ambrosini and Adriano Stucchi joined forces to trade in silk, wool, and rayon fabrics, mainly for women’s clothing. The following year saw a shake up in the company, with the departure of Ambrosini and a host of new shareholders, resulting in a change of name to SASA, an acronym of Sa Stucchi Adriano. To begin, their output was mainly destined for the Italian women’s clothing market, but in the second half of the 1970s, the factories produced goods of medium-fine quality that were sold to companies that made up clothes rather than to retailers, thus creating openings on the international markets. The early 1980s saw an expansion into the sector of furnishing textiles but the company was wound up in the mid-1990s.