In recent years there have been many acquisitions that have involved well-known design brands, From the young Design Holding, a reality born thanks to Investindustrial and The Carlyle Group, which in its portfolio has brands such as B&B Italia, Louis Poulsen and Flos to Italian Creation Group, the holding that controls companies that have made the history of Italian design: Driade, Valcucine, FontanaArte, Toscoquattro.
The majority of Snaidero instead passed to Idea Corporate Credit Recovery II, a fund managed by Dea Capital Alternative Funds SGR. While Calligaris, after repurchasing 40% of the company sold to LCapital in 2014, transferred the majority to the Alpha fund.
And again, the passage of the iGuzzini to the Swedish lighting giant Fagerhult and Lifestyle Design – the new name of th Poltrona Frau Group, with its companies Poltrona Frau, Cassina, Cappellini, Ceccotti Collezioni, Janus et Cie e Luminaire – which acquired the majority of Karakter, a Danish start-up specialized in the production of lighting, furniture and objects. Alessi, a historic Italian company of design products, has instead brought in the English investment fund Oakley with 40% of its capital.