Manfrotto

Type
Reshoring
Country
Italy
Reshoring from
China
Reshored business function
Production
Region
Nord-Est; Veneto; Belluno
Location of affected unit(s)
Feltre
Sector
Manufacturing
(26 - 27) Manufacture of electrical, electronic and optical products
26.7 - Manufacture of optical instruments, magnetic and optical media and photographic equipment
26.7 - Manufacture of optical instruments, magnetic and optical media and photographic equipment
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
20 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2017
Foreseen end date

Description

Manfrotto is an Italian company established in 1972 by the the press photographer Lino Manfrotto. The company offers accessories for photographers (e.g. lighting support equipment, camera stands). By 1989, it is part of the British "The Vitec Group Plc". In 2017, the company decided to launch a new camera stand in the Asian market leveraging on the "made in Italy" label. Therefore, it decided to produce the new product in a plant in Feltre (North East of Italy). Between 2014 and 2017, the company invested around 10 million in the Italian facility in order to support an high level of production automatization and organize production processes according the lean manufacturing philosophy.  At the end of this process, in 2017 the company also back-shored in Italy some of the production realized in China .

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2017), Manfrotto, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 34, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/34.