Italy is the land of good taste, style, design, and the ability to reinvent concepts that risked being lost because of the economic crisis that everyone was forced to face.
Globalgest Europe capably merged together the very best this reality managed to convey to two worldly managers in the Italian shoe business, creating a business format that completely em- braced the full potential for business, which is extremely high, and which is still offered up by the European footwear market. Moreover, it developed a business-system that paired a demand for style with the right kind of supply and a consumption-based business orientation, while also focusing on minimizing the costs in the productive supply chain, with an ever-present innovative sourcing that keeps pace with worldwide fashion trends. This is what has been put into practice for the last five-plus years by Marco Di Miceli and Maurizio Oliviero, creating Globalgest Europe, a business cluster that has managed to fully emphasize the possibility of creating a full Made in Italy design that can be proposed to the most famous and well-established retailers on the market, or to those fashion houses or important businesses that own famous brands and which express the need to renew and create their shoes-look from scratch. At the same time, these brands can benefit from an “all-inclusive” service that starts with the supplier and ends with the final product, with production done only in audited factories that fully comply with the multiple needs of quality and occupational health protection dictated by today’s market.
Thanks to the solution that they decided to call GOAL (Globalgest Outsourcing All-Inclusive Loyalty), today, Globalgest Europe has a portfolio of customers that includes the most important players in every EU market of reference.
This total approach has led to the company’s acquisition of al- most all of the top ten retailers in Italy, France, Spain, Eastern Europe, Russia, and South America, which are now included as part of its main customer base.
To each of them it offers a custom-made, extremely personalized, and exclusive service that is capable of satisfying any kind of need. With a global reach that also includes Kids’, the true core business of this company with twenty-plus years of specialized experience is Men’s, including especially the segments dedicated to fashion-sneakering, sport-fashion, and street/urban style.
Maurizio Oliviero loves to proclaim that one of the company’s greatest added values is that of “directly following our customers in their very own headquarters, so that they do not have to deal with complex negotiations, and extremely expensive transfers that are thousands of kilometers away from their main primary interests, which could result in very high costs that end up having negative effects on the finances of the business and above all on the costs of the supply chain, including the price of the final product. All this translates into an extremely high level of competitiveness for our customers over the competition, which still operates according to traditional methods”.
Marco Di Miceli echoes this sentiment, claiming that the entire process is monitored and fully entrusted to Italian management that coordinates step-by-step all the phases of business both in Europe, thanks in fact to the headquarters of Globalgest Europe srl in Milan, and in Asia through the Design & Development offices of Jinjiang Shine Trading Co. Ltd., with sample-rooms situated in the production district of Jinjiang (China), including a resident Show Room of 800-plus square meters that is extremely easy to reach by all kinds of transportation.
The company’s business cluster provides for a series of brainstorming sessions/meetings that will determine the moods of the collection, which will then be creatively manipulated by their designers, in order to realize institutional style guides that will become the basis for preparing the first samples in their sample rooms.
Once final approval has been obtained, it is time to produce in the audited factories in Asia, which fully comply with all the test requirements in demand by all the relative markets of reference. A unique advantage of Globalgest Europe is its Quality System Control that is directly managed onsite by Oliviero, allowing the company to guarantee truly high standards through their Asia team, which verifies that the quality of the final product complies with the elevated standards of TUV before shipping out.
A global system that they call 3.0, because they go well beyond the simple concept of producing and positioning themselves on “just”
shoes markets, as explained by Di Miceli, who tells us that the GOAL is always that which has not yet been scored!