GDE Bertoni, also known as Stabilimento Artistico Bertoni, is a trophy and medal manufacturing company based in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, Italy. The company's most famous production is the

FIFA World Cup Trophy The FIFA World Cup is a golden trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two different trophies have been used: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 19 ...

, which it has produced ever since winning a design competition in 1970. The FIFA World Cup Trophy is hand-crafted every four years by the company. GDE Bertoni started as a small artisanal workshop founded in the early 1900s by Eugenio Losa before becoming a large production company in the 1960s after creating the

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s for the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

in Rome. When

FIFA The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to o ...

held a competition for a new trophy design in 1970, Losa presented concept sketches and a physical prototype of a design by

Silvio Gazzaniga Silvio Gazzaniga (; 23 January 1921 – 31 October 2016) was an Italian sculptor. While working for the Stabilimento Artistico Bertoni company, he created the FIFA World Cup Trophy. Biography Silvio Gazzaniga was born in Milan on 23 Januar ...

, winning the competition. Every award produced by GDE Bertoni is created with traditional artisan techniques and built by hand. The trophies awarded to winners of the

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internatio ...

are not the original, but rather bronze replicas plated in gold created by GDE Bertoni. GDE Bertoni has a contract with the royal court of

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to produce the country's military medals and produces several trophies for

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, including the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-divisio ...

trophy, the

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...

trophy, and the

UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup Association football, football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's offic ...

trophy. The company also produced the medals for the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

in Moscow.

Notable productions

Notable awards produced by GDE Bertoni include: File:1960 Rome Olympic Games, Gold Medal, Al Oerter , Track and Field Discus Throw (2913311489).jpg,

medals File:RIAN archive 159218 Exhibits, Russian State Depository for Precious Metals.jpg,

medals File:Ordine Olimpico.jpg,

Olympic Order The Olympic Order, established in 1975, is the highest award of the Olympic Movement. It is awarded for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worthy of merit in the cause of sport. Tradit ...

File:FIFA World Cup Trophy cropped.jpg,

File:Intercontinental de Boca exhibida en el Dardo Rocha 02.jpg, Intercontinental Cup trophy File:Trofeo UEFA Champions League.jpg,

trophy File:Copas de la UEFA.jpg,

trophy File:Troféu da UEFA Super Cup.jpg,

trophy File:The-emir-of-bahrain-shaikh-isa-bin-sulman-al-khalifa-presents-the-bahrain-medal-0ff416-1024.jpg, Military medals of

File:Final of the 2011–12 Austrian Cup (112).jpg, Austrian Football Cup Medal

References

External links

Official site
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