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Smeg is an Italian home appliance manufacturer based in Guastalla, near Reggio Emilia in the north of the Country. Smeg has subsidiaries worldwide, overseas offices and an extensive sales network. For over 75 years now, Smeg appliances have come to be seen as tasteful and elegant solutions to the demands of contemporary living as a result of the company's partnerships with world famous architects. Not only does Smeg have a unique profile in terms of domestic appliances, it is also renowned in professional business sectors. The Professional and Instruments divisions specialise in the area of large-scale restaurant/catering appliances and electro-medical instruments respectively. The Smeg Group, thanks to a corporate culture which dictates that maximum emphasis be placed on product quality, technology and design, is consequently known all over the globe as one of the key representatives of "Made in Italy" standards.

La Marzocco manufactures high quality coffee machines and equipment, finely handcrafted in Florence by artisan professionals since 1927, when it was founded by the Bambi brothers Giuseppe and Bruno, whose distinct heritage still lingers today. La Marzocco is a trendsetter, the innovations of style and technique within the espresso equipment industry throughout more than 80 years of experience and passion has made the company earn recognition in the coffee industry as well as in the specialty coffee environment. Rich in tradition, aware of its artisan values without losing site of a fast-forward edge, it delivers prime espresso coffee machines in over 80 countries worldwide. The ongoing search for superior reliability and performance of each and every model are the living expression of La Marzocco’s values, a company remarked by its unique mindset and engagement in improving the coffee world and its community of people. In fact, La Marzocco's mission is to persevere in the manufacturing of the finest in class specialty coffee equipment, while encompassing people, heritage, technology, design, and a spirit of sustainability in business. Headquartered near Florence, La Marzocco has a strong network of distributors and partners present on the 5 continents and has branch offices located in Auckland, Barcelona, Markgröningen, Melbourne, Milan, London, Seattle, and Seoul.

The company Bodum was founded by Peter Bodum in 1944. He is the father of Jørgen Bodum who is currently running the Bodum group and who is living in Switzerland. The Bodum group is a 100% family-owned business and has approx. 300 employees worldwide. In the beginning Bodum imported glasses from East Europe in order to sell them in Denmark, but in 1958 the first Bodum product was launched. People celebrated the Santos coffeemaker like a sensation. Bodum is still producing this item in the original design by Kaas Klaeson. In 1974 the Bistro coffeepot was introduced. It was the first Bodum product from the Presso coffeepot selection. These were also the first steps to the cooperation between Jørgen Bodum and Carsten Jørgensen, whose ideas showed us that good design doesn’t have to be expensive. At the same time, the Bistro coffeepot was the basis for the Bodum design line. The principle of the Presso coffeepot was developed by the Italian designer Calimani in 1943. In 1986 Bodum opened the first shop in London; actually as a presentation shop. Shops in Copenhagen, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurich and Lucerne followed. Today, there are 52 Bodum shops worldwide and many more shop-in-shops. The Bodum shops serve as a kind of marketing to popularise the brand Bodum and its products all over the world. Bodum includes a holding company in Denmark as well as in Switzerland.