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Damiani calls a new manager with the aim of strengthening the financial management of the jewelry group. With this goal, the Valenza-based company called Claudio D’Ambrosio to head the Finance division. The manager, after having achieved a degree in Business Economics at the University of Florence with full marks, began his professional career at Ernst & Young, first as an auditor and later as a Capital Markets Senior Manager, managing and structuring strategic projects for international level including capital increases, stock exchange listing and mergers and acquisitions, the latter an experience that could prove useful to the Italian company.

After E&Y, the manager held the role of CFO and Investor Relator of Ratti, an Italian manufacturer of fine fabrics in the Fashion Luxury sector listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. Now he takes on the same position in the Damiani Group.

Damiani is strengthened in South Korea. In the wake of the double-digit growth recorded in 2020 in the Asian country, the Italian brand has decided to strengthen management in the region through the appointment of a new general manager: Eunice Kim, who already has experience in brands like Chanel and L’Oreal. Eunice Kim will be tasked with implementing Damiani’s development strategies in Korea. The company’s growth in Korea is also linked to investments in stores, with openings in Hyundai Main and Shinsegae Daegu, but also with a new space for luxury at Hyundai Pangyo. Last, but not least, the Italian brand has opened a new boutique on Lotte Main Avenue in Seoul: the most prestigious store in the Lotte chain and one of the best department stores in the country.

Damiani has a close relationship with Korea, witnessed during the triumphant night of the 2020 Oscars, when Parasite was the first non-English-speaking film to win the Academy’s most prestigious award for Best Picture. For this unique occasion, the leading actress, Cho Yeo-Jeong, wore Damiani creations of refined elegance and style: the Masterpiece necklace from the Mimosa collection, as well as two rings from the Mimosa and Notte di San Lorenzo lines.

Covid-19 also claims victims in the world of jewelry. To be irremediably affected by the virus was Gabriella Colombo Damiani, who together with her husband Damiano represented the second generation of the Maison of Valenza, now led by her children Silvia, Guido and Giorgio. Not only wife, but also inspirer, Gabriella Damiani accompanied the growth of the company, which today is one of the great names in jewelry in the world, also thanks to the continuous desire to achieve excellence by knowing how to innovate.

“His contribution was fundamental in the creation and management of the commercial network in which he introduced his personal vision by creating a relationship based on esteem and trust with customers: his attention to the human side was so particular that everyone has always recognized it. and the unmistakable vitality, humanity and generosity appreciated ”, reads a note from the Damiani family. “For her, Damiani was a forge of ideas, a place where projects come to life and important goals are achieved: with her determined spirit combined with her joyful enthusiasm she was able to involve and thrill her children and collaborators, making them feel part of the family Damiani. Those who knew her know that she always had a word and a gesture that was good for everyone and was an exceptional wife, mother and grandmother. Thanks to her design, her goldsmith passion and her aesthetic sensibility, in 1976, Damiani was awarded with Shark, a prestigious Diamonds International Award: first prize in a long series of unparalleled victories that allowed the Italian Maison to express its excellence at an international level “.

Damiani also makes a contribution to deal with the coronavirus emergency. The company has decided to make 12,000 square meters of what will become the next headquarters of the Group Manufacture available to the Civil Protection in Valenza (Alessandria, Italy), so as to support the authorities in the extraordinary activities made necessary by the health emergency. The building, ex Palafiere, was recently purchased by the Damiani family to be transformed into a production site, so as to be able to maintain the goldsmith’s manufacture of the group’s brands in the territory where the company was born as a workshop in 1924. The spaces will be able to possibly used as a field hospital, homeless shelter, materials warehouse or for what the authorities deem useful.

In this moment of great concern and declared emergency, my brothers and I have decided to make a concrete contribution to the hospitals so that they can continue to have the necessary equipment to save people’s lives. Furthermore, we have made available to the Civil Protection the twelve thousand square meters of what will be the next headquarters of our Manufactory: in this battle we must be united and everyone must do something. With the same attention we look to our employees because their safety and health are as important to us as the well-being of the company and the whole territory in which it is located.
Guido Damiani, president of the Damiani Group

Furthermore, after the first donation of over 100,000 euros, others will follow, for the SS Antonio e Margherita hospital in Tortona, indicated by the Piedmont Region as the first Piedmontese Covid Hospital, to the SS Antonio, Biagio and Cesare Arrigo of Alessandria, at the Santo Spirito of Casale Monferrato, the Sacco of Milan, the Pope Giovanni XXIII of Bergamo, the hospital of Padua, the Spallanzani of Rome, the Santa Maria di Loreto of Naples, the Policlinico of Bari and the Cannizzaro of Catania, in addition to donating a share at Humanitas University in Rozzano to support scientific research in the Convid-19 area.
In addition to these donations, Damiani has activated its international network with the aim of recovering masks and other personal protective equipment to be donated to Italian hospitals to allow doctors, health workers and nurses to be able to continue working safely.

In terms of solidarity actions, in addition, Damiani launches a program that involves the customers of the Group’s brands, and proposes itself as the collector of a fundraiser in favor of entities active in the fight against Covid-19. By purchasing a Damiani or Salvini jewel, a Venini object, either in the specific brand platforms or through the Rocca e-commerce, but also by investing in a Calderoni diamond, the company will activate further donations in addition to paying the buyers a discount, which can also be donated to the body chosen by the end customer to support, for example, the hospital in its territory.

The Group has also decided to pay homage with a Bliss jewel to all the doctors and nurses working tirelessly in the Tortona hospital, which as required by the Piedmont Region has been transformed into Covid Hospital, to thank them symbolically for the great work they are carrying out and with the intention of giving them a smile. Damiani has also activated an insurance that can represent concrete help in case of hospitalization for Covid19 or in need of home care for its employees.