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...shapes and sizes--typically of beech and oak wood--for offices, homes, hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made 1 of every 3 chairs sold. The demand provided ample work for a tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones, a district with virtually full employment and a chronic shortage of skilled labor. "We were the China of Europe," boasts Giulio Fanin, an entrepreneur who makes...
...specialized artisans set up their own shops, supplying individual parts to their neighbors, who would then work them into the next stage of the manufacturing process. One artisan would do just leather upholstery, for example, or specialize in varnishes. The highly decentralized industrial structure, a type of extreme outsourcing network, is quite common in Italy. By one estimate, there are about 100 such industrial clusters in the country, producing shoes, clothes and even some food products...
...when he started, but now he is a model for all of us," says Gino Piani, who runs a company called Forsedia, with 50 employees, three lines of furniture and slumping sales. Piani's answer is Calligaris-inspired: he is trying to create his own brand and a sales network with fellow entrepreneurs. Two of the four firms he hoped to team with have since dropped out, but Piani doesn't need to look very far to see that he needs to do something. The Manzano district as a whole is working on a strategy that might help...
...After hard practices, hanging out on the field—just the dynamic of the team. You probably won’t forget that.”As is often the case, Steve agreed.“Anybody whose played lacrosse, it’s a network, and if you happen to bump into somebody who played here, it’s even better,” he said. “You can’t replace that. That’s something you have forever, and the fact that we get to share it is phenomenal...
Shin Corp. owns Thai mobile-phone operator AIS as well as a major television network...