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Industry | Manufacturing |
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Founder | Eugenio Losa |
Headquarters | , Italy |
Key people | Valentina Losa (CEO) |
GDE Bertoni, also known asStabilimento Artistico Bertoni, is a trophy and medal manufacturing company based inMilan, Italy. The company's most famous production is theFIFA World Cup Trophy, which it has produced ever since winning a design competition in 1970. The FIFA World Cup Trophy is hand-crafted every four years by the company.[1]
GDE Bertoni started as a small artisanal workshop founded in the early 1900s[2][3] by Eugenio Losa before becoming a large production company in the 1960s after creating theOlympic medals for the1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[4] WhenFIFA held a competition for a new trophy design in 1970, Losa presented concept sketches and a physical prototype of a design bySilvio Gazzaniga, winning the competition.[5] Every award produced by GDE Bertoni is created with traditional artisan techniques and built by hand.[1][6] The trophies awarded to winners of theFIFA World Cup are not the original, but rather bronze replicas plated in gold created by GDE Bertoni.[7]
GDE Bertoni has a contract with the royal court ofBahrain to produce the country's military medals[8] and produces several trophies forUEFA, including theUEFA Champions League trophy, theUEFA Europa League trophy, and theUEFA Super Cup trophy.[1] The company also produced the medals for the1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[3]
Notable awards produced by GDE Bertoni include: