It was April 26th 1916
The company was founded in 1916 by Giuseppe Bacci, Bank Manager in Prato, who created with his five sons the Mechanical Weaving of Cotton and Jute. Activity slows down due to war.
Our history
One hundred years of history
1925
In the following years the hard work and dedication of the four strong brothers produced its results and in 1925 the company started its own sample, thus taking its first steps in the wool sector and winning the interest and esteem of new and important customers.
1935
The year sees the construction of the new building. Then the Second World War, which affects the world and destroys everything it passes, disrupts the usual production activities.
Bacci's woolen mill closes its doors, Alessandro, the youngest of the brothers, was accused by the Germans of espionage and he was immediately killed. In addition to that, all the company's machinery was destroyed.
1945: Rebirth
The 45/50s are characterized by the goal of reconstruction and Bacci's family, with the new vitality of the third generation formed by Francesco, Giuseppe, Alfonso, Mario, coalescies its efforts and rebuilds the woolen mill completing it with the finishing department equipped with modern machinery: the company thus takes the name of woolen mill "Lanificio Fratelli Bacci". The first satisfactory foreign trade relations begin.
1966: The flood
The flood of 1966 floods the building, but once again Bacci's family, supported by the will of the workers, friends, customers and suppliers, managed to reactivate the production activity in a short time.
1970s
In the 1970s Woolen mill Fratelli Bacci took the path of continuous production, organizational and technological development through the expansion of surfaces and the reorganization of departments.
1980s / 1990s
At the beginning of the 1980s the company became a public limited company and underwent the massive introduction of IT systems that made its business even more dynamic and elastic. During the twenty years between the 80s and 90s, the entry into the company of the fourth generation, Alessandro, Cristina, Filippo Cecilia, Francesca, Serena, Luigi, Lorenzo, Paolo who are entrusted with the various departments, was completed.
2000
The great historical and economic upheavals that occurred at the dawn of the 21st century, the beginning of which is symbolically represented by the collapse of the Twin Towers of New York, oblige all companies to question not only the positioning within their reference markets, but above all their economic and financial strategies and the new economic situation created takes on completely different characteristics from the dramatic events of the previous century.
In the past, despite the difficulties, there was still a clothing sector that was highly potential and only suspiced by these events, ready to start again as soon as conditions allowed, but today we are witnessing complete and sudden changes in consumer orientations.
In this context, clothing loses many positions on the preference scale, we are witnessing a gradual but rapid de-development of the product that forces textile companies to multiply their efforts to maintain what has been good in previous decades.
Woolen mill Fratelli Bacci has successfully chosen the strategy of quality and excellence, having understood that the higher end of consumption seems to suffer less from economic difficulties, fine fabrics such as those in cashmere, angora and camel cover an increasing part within the collections alongside the types in wool, the historical heritage of the company.
The ever new investments in machinery and plants allow to take care of another aspect pillar of the chosen strategy: customer service and exclusivity, alongside its proposals; Woolen mill Fratelli Bacci is able to develop the projects of each customer by proposing its own valid collaborator.
The 21st century, therefore characterized by a profound change in the customs and customs of the consumer and the final, forced the clientele of lanificio to radically modify all strategies, both those related to the timing of orders, and those related to the choice of types and stylistic concepts.
In the last twenty years, therefore, the woolen mill has strategically added to the flexibility of customer service, another fundamental principle to be applied to its business, so much so that it has a real philosophy of life: sustainability.
Working in full respect of the environment and the supply chain to which the dairy belongs has therefore become at the same time an opportunity and a necessary condition from which brands and the final consumer can no longer ignore.
Oggi
The current team. a complete and well-trained team that covers all operational sectors of the company, always ready to face the countless challenges offered by the fantastic world of fashion