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Ratti Group
Sustainability report 2020

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A story with deep roots

Ratti’s history and the company today
In 2020 Ratti, which has remained faithful to while always highlighting the prowess of our
corporate values which blend heritage and professionals and operating in a way that fully
innovation, as is the case with expertise and quality respects protection of the environment and
– the most sublime expression of this marriage – the principles and values on which the Group is
reached the major milestone of seventy-five years based.
in business.
If creativity always has one root in knowledge
“What counts is to want and to do; that is to create” and represents an improvement on something
Emile Zola that already exists, it is easy to appreciate the
spirit and commitment shown by Ratti in taking
This is a quote that encapsulates the spirit of the care of and enhancing its own cultural heritage,
Ratti Group which, from its very first actions on which it houses in an exclusive archive. This
a printing table, in 1945, has made creativity its is how it is able to offer, time and time again,
vocation. This has become a daily commitment designs and prints that become the preferred
which involves everyone who walks through the choice of major fashion and design houses
gates of Via Madonna. throughout the world.
This is a thought which nourishes talent and Every collection presented by Ratti draws
beauty, balancing innovation and practicality, inspiration from its exclusive archive, culminating

From Ludovico il Moro (“the Moor”) to the industrial revolution to Made in Italy

The history of the Ratti Group evolves an object of precious craftsmanship. of this new textile and replacing
in parallel with the centuries-old The manufacture of silk had been traditional wool production. This
history of Como, city of silk. brought to Europe from the Orient was a forward-looking vision which,
a few years before that, risking the according to many historians of
The first traces of artistry in silk in death penalty prescribed by the economics, represented the first
the Como area date back to the XV Chinese and Japanese emperors seeds of Lombardy’s characteristic
century – a century during which for anyone betraying the secret entrepreneurial spirit.
Italian manufacturing prospered techniques used to manufacture the
in particular and became oriented precious fabric. The start of this trend in the
towards refined and exclusive seventeenth century meant that
products. It was Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Italy, and Como in particular,
Milan, who accelerated the growth became a centre of excellence in the
Thanks to this our country became of the world of silk, obliging the local production of wonderfully designed
famous throughout the world, to the peasants to plant mulberry trees and coloured fabrics. The industrial
extent that the expression ouvrage de throughout the kingdom and, in this revolution, between the eighteenth
Lombardie became synonymous with way, favouring the development century and the first half of the

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