Pattern joins forces with Dyloan-Bond Factory, turnover exceeds 100 million

A gallop, that of the Italian company Pattern, among the leaders in the design for the top brands of luxury fashion, which began in 2000 and which led the company to grow in the area thanks to strategic alliances on the various luxury product categories, until reaching the goal announced in 2019 at the listing on the Italian stock exchange: to create the first Italian pole of luxury design. Objective achieved thanks to the partnership with Dyloan-Bond Factory, an Abruzzo company based between Chieti and Pescara, leader in innovative technologies and R&D as well as an advanced production center (thanks also to the recent acquisitions in 2022 of Orlando Confezioni and the T- Shock), which allows the Group to verticalise research and technological applications as well as production activities. A Group is therefore consolidated which, by pro-forming for the entire year the 2021 turnover of all the companies that make it up by now (with the exception of Rgb which started its activity in July 2021), today exceeds 100 million euros in turnover. and has about 800 people. A second phase therefore opens for the Pattern Group, which aims at consolidating and developing the existing poles in the various Italian districts of excellence. Luca Sburlati, CEO of the Pattern Group, together with Franco Martorella and Fulvio Botto, founders and majority shareholders of Pattern, comment: “We are happy that a new district of excellence, that of Abruzzo, joins those already included in our Italian industrial project. Through the merger with Dyloan-Bond Factory, the Group actually completes the first phase announced in the listing: the creation of the Italian luxury design hub. From today we are in fact able, with the experience of Anna Maria and Loreto Di Rienzo – founders of Dyloan – and their team, to internalize the best innovative technologies and R&D applied to luxury thanks to D-house in Milan, and to proceed towards the verticalization in Abruzzo of the high-tech processing activities with Bond Factory and of outerwear production with Orlando Confezioni. A perfect union. What today is the Pattern Group was born from an idea of ​​a few years ago and today it is finally realized. Now the human and industrial growth of each of our Italian hubs awaits us “. Pattern was born in 2000 thanks to the entrepreneurial intuition of two model makers, Fulvio Botto and Franco Martorella, who decided to support the great international luxury brands by managing the phase for them. Since then the company has grown exponentially: in 2017 Roscini Atelier, a specialist in women’s lines, was acquired and, in 2019, following the listing on the Italian Stock Exchange, Pattern announces the entry into the Group of the Emilian SMT knitwear factory ( Società Manifattura Tessile), specialized in luxury knitwear. In 2021, Idee Partners, a Tuscan company leader in the Product Development of luxury leather goods, joins, which in turn includes Petri & Lombardi, historic leather goods of Florence. 2022 is confirmed as a year of strong growth: first is added Zanni di Reggio Emilia, a point of reference in Wholegarment (seamless) knitwear, s strategically Rgb, a Tuscan specialist in the production and processing of leather accessories. Today the alliance with Dyloan leads to the integration of the R&D and production phase within the Group. The Pattern Group will therefore be present in the main product categories (men’s and women’s lines, clothing and accessories, still fabrics, knitwear and leather goods) from the research and design phase to production. A strategic partnership therefore considering that Dyloan has been able over the years to internalize the best innovative technologies and R&D applied to luxury, thanks also to the creation and development in Milan of D-House, a creative and research laboratory. The investment agreement provides for the purchase of 70% of the share capital of D-Holding, which holds 100% of the equity investments in Bond Factory (Dyloan). The provisional agreed price for the investment, equal to approximately € 6.96 million, is determined on the basis of the company’s value adjusted by an estimated Net Financial Position of approximately € 1.04 million. The provisional price will be subject to an adjustment mechanism based on the consolidated Net Financial Position at the closing date. A clear growth project from its origins in the entrepreneurial vision of the founders, and now majority shareholders, Franco Martorella and Fulvio Botto, defined and structured with the entry into the company of Luca Sburlati, CEO of the Group. A path that from 2011 to today has brought the Group from 1 to 12 offices in 7 regions, the number of collaborators from 42 (2009) to about 800 and, at an economic level, the turnover from 3.4ml in 2009 to a proforma turnover. 2021 consolidated Group of over 100 million euros. At the level of corporate social responsibility, Pattern represents excellence in the area. Since 2013 the company has been certified Sa8000 / Social Accountability and since 2019 it has obtained an ESG rating. It has also officially committed itself in its five-year plan ‘From Red to Green Carpet’ to achieving carbon neutrality by 2023 for the Pattern Torino and Atelier Roscini offices in Umbria, which translates into achieving a balance between carbon emissions and the absorption of the same from the atmosphere. In this regard, thanks to geothermal and photovoltaic plants active since 2020, the Turin office has already eliminated its energy emissions, while the Group aims in 2023 to procure itself entirely from renewable energy sources. In addition to social responsibility, innovation and research are the basis of the Group’s growth strategy. In particular, there are two projects that have changed the company’s business model in recent years: the virtual 3D prototyping and the Warehouse 4.0 inaugurated in 2020. On the one hand, Pattern is now able to create 3D prototypes for each type of garment by simulating any type of fabric and knitwear, a key and transversal tool that represented an enormous advantage in a period in which there was severe limitation in the movement of people and goods. On the other hand, a totally digitalized state-of-the-art warehouse has been set up where, through Rfid technology, every single item and its movements are uniquely identifiable and therefore traceable. Innovation therefore that creates opportunities for sustainability, since the 3D digital prototype allows to reduce the number of physical garments produced and the Warehouse 4.0 allows to reduce its emissions. The Group is therefore opening up to a second phase of exclusively industrial growth that continues to have a single common factor: investing in the best excellences of the Italian territory and creating a network of skills capable of competing in a complex and constantly changing market.