Bialetti is an Italian brand of

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machines, cookware, and small kitchen appliances founded by Alfonso Bialetti. Its most well-known product is the

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line of stovetop coffeemakers.

History

Alfonso Bialetti first acquired his metal-working skills by working for a decade in the French

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'', Vol. 28, No. 1, 2001. Retrieved on 2005-10-27. By 1919, he had established his own metal and machine workshop in Crusinallo (in his native

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Bialetti Industrie S.p.A. Bialetti is an Italian brand of coffee machines, cookware, and small kitchen appliances founded by Alfonso Bialetti. Its most well-known product is the Moka pot line of stovetop coffeemakers. History Alfonso Bialetti first acquired his metal-w ...

''. Retrieved on 2005-10-27 He transformed his workshop – Alfonso Bialetti & C. Fonderia in Conchiglia – into a studio for design and production. In 1933, Bialetti founded the brand and invented Moka pots. The company was later operated by his son Renato Bialetti. After a period of crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, Bialetti merged with Rondine Italia in 1993 and founded a new company named Bialetti Industrie S.p.A., based in

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. Francesco Ranzoni acts as both President and CEO of the company. At the end of 2015, the company's income statement registered a total revenue of €172.4 million, 6.9% more than 2014 (€161.2 million). In 2010, a study calculated that 90% of Italian families own a moka pot made by Bialetti. In April 2025 Nuo Capital, a Luxembourg-based fund controlled by Stephen Cheng, has signed an agreement to purchase 78.567% of Bialetti's shares.

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