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Ermenegildo Zegna

Emerging stronger as a successor: Gain wisdom from your family, family business and trusted advisers

October 20, 2021

At a family business conference, several years ago, I had the good fortune to hear speak the senior family member and then president of the fourth generation Italian fashion house, Ermenegildo Zegna. In reply to a question on where he spent his time, he identified three areas of personal priority.

Zegna family says buying US label Thom Browne is “the perfect fit”

August 30, 2018

Ermenegildo Zegna is renowned for its luxury menswear, but the Italian family-owned group is pursuing American women and millennials and consolidating its Asian market with its $500 million takeover of US label Thom Browne.

Family business roundup: Sales up at Zegna, PPR and Fiat Industrial, down at Peugeot

April 26, 2012

Ermenegildo Zegna, the Italian fashion house controlled by the founding Zegna family, saw its profits almost double in 2011, while three other family businesses in Europe have reported mixed quarterly results.

Piedmont-based Ermenegildo Zegna, chaired by fourth-generation Paolo Zegna, said on 25 April that net profit jumped 91.5% in 2011 to €115 million. Revenues at the company, which was founded in 1910 as a weaving business, also grew by 17% to €1.13 billion.

The Zegna Group: Measuring Italy's tailor-made family business

January 1, 2002

The Zegna Group, winners of the IMD Distinguished Family Business Award 2000, have successfully redefined and adapted their textile and menswear business to the changing world—never losing sight of the legacy of its founder

The beginnings of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group as a family business can be traced back to the birth of Angelo Zegna in 1859 in the northwestern part of Italy known as Piedmont. Born the fourth child of a farmer, Angelo first worked as a watchmaker. He later became a weaver, which is not surprising, since wool-making and weaving was the most common industry in this isolated and impoverished mountainous area.