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SCISSORS, NEEDLE, AND THREAD USED WITH PRECISION AND PASSION, BUT ABOVE ALL, A TOUCH OF FLAIR. THESE WERE THE INGREDIENTS CHOSEN IN THE 1930S BY FILIPPO CAUCCI, GRANDFATHER OF THE CURRENT OWNERS OF THE COMPANY, TO BRING HIS ENTERPRISE TO LIFE: TAILORING GARMENTS IN AN ATELIER IN THE PROVINCE OF TERAMO. THE CLOSE TIES WITH FABRIC SUPPLIERS, ON ONE HAND, AND WITH SMALL FAMILY-RUN MANUFACTURERS, ON THE OTHER, LED HIS SON ALBERTO AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GIUSEPPA TO START A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS SPECIALIZING IN THE SALE OF FABRICS IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD. THE MIX OF SKILLS THAT RESULTED PROVIDED THE BEST PREMISE FOR STARTING A PROCESS OF PROGRESSIVE DOWNSTREAM INTEGRATION, CULMINATING IN THE 1960S WITH THE OPENING OF A TRUE MICRO-WORKSHOP FOR TROUSER MANUFACTURING. THE BOOM CAME IN THE 1970S WHEN THE COMPANY IN SANT’EGIDIO ALLA VIBRATA BECAME, WITH ITS OWN BRAND, A POINT OF REFERENCE IN THE VAL VIBRATA PRODUCTION DISTRICT FOR ALL THOSE CRAFT BUSINESSES INTENT ON MAKING A QUALITY LEAP, OR ACHIEVING FULL-FLEDGED INDUSTRIAL STATUS. PROGRESSIVELY SPECIALIZING IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIALIZATION OF INTERNALLY DEVELOPED MODELS, MANIFATTURA CAUCCI DOES NOT MERELY OUTSOURCE THEIR MANUFACTURING BASED ON A SHARED BILL OF MATERIALS. INSTEAD, IT SYSTEMATICALLY ENSURES TO PURCHASE AND CUT THE FABRICS INTERNALLY TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCIES, WHILE ALSO RETAINING FINAL QUALITY CONTROL AND DISTRIBUTION THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY. THE TURNING POINT CAME AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 2000S WHEN, IN AN EFFORT TO SEGMENT DEMAND AND DIFFERENTIATE THEIR OFFER, THE CAUCCI FAMILY CREATED FG 1936, DIVERSIFYING INTO THE MANUFACTURING OF JEANS AND TAILORED TROUSERS, DISTRIBUTED SELECTIVELY THROUGH THE WHOLESALE CHANNEL.