Company

History and future plans

Scavolini has been producing kitchens for over 40 years. Vast experience built up over time, responding to the tastes and trends of almost three generations of consumers. From a small workshop the company has grown to major industrial status, pursuing its growth aims through all the necessary stages with toughness and determination with absolute respect for the public at large, and in harmony with the needs of its surrounding area.

Its history  - a crescendo of initiatives reflecting its ability to adapt innovatively to changes in taste, lifestyle and the market and the advent of each wave of new technologies - is a striking example of corporate growth, nowadays taken as the benchmark model for the entire industry.

the Sixties

Initially a small workshop, Scavolini launches its business in Pesaro in 1962 with a small range of fitted kitchens, which immediately prove very popular. This is the start of the great adventure of the brothers Valter and Elvino Scavolini who, encouraged by their initial success, expand their premises and make innovations that help their business to grow quickly.

the Seventies

Expanding output requires major changes: Scavolini consolidates its distribution network and reinforces its sales network, adopts more and more leading-edge technologies, and starts to work with specialist designers for the first time. The aim: to come up with the best solutions and offer the best services. The company's turnover and visibility increase: 1975 is the year of its first nation-wide advertising campaign and, in the world of sport, the sponsorship of a promising Pesaro-based basketball team.

the Eighties

Now the popular choice of a very large number of Italian households, in 1984 Scavolini wins the leading position on the domestic market and becomes, in everyone's eyes, "la cucina più amata dagli italiani", Italy's favourite kitchen. While output reaches new peaks, during these years the company's image and brand achieve strong credibility: with an ambitious advertising campaign, the establishment of the Scavolini Foundation, and the sponsorship of the Rossini Opera Festival.

the Nineties

During the Nineties Scavolini perfects its production and distribution system and explores new possibilities: for Dealers it launches an excellent multi-annual plan, it opens its own Internet site to back up its strong communications, it takes over Ernestomeda and it creates the Scavolini Group, to diversify its product range. In 1996, it is amongst the first firms in Italy to receive the most important award of all:  UNI EN ISO 9001 Quality System Certification.

2000 and onward

Given new strength by its world-wide exports, after the creation of  the innovative Utility System in 2001, and the foundation on the Internet of the first and only Community dedicated to life in the kitchen in 2002, Scavolini also feels it must be "first" in the protection of the environment and its surrounding area. This is immediately turned into a new project, the Environmental Management System, approved with prestigious UNI EN ISO 14001 certification at the end of 2004 and now transformed into a Project for an Integrated Quality and Environment System.