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CarpiFashionSystem - Companies - PAOLA DAVOLI

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source: carpifashionsystem companies PAOLA DAVOLI Carpi Fashion The journey of Paola Davoli, among the first companies to rise up from the Carpi district in the 1970s, is one of the most concrete examples of how innovation can coexist with tradition. Today it is one of the points of reference for the medium target of women’s knitwear, however Paola Davoli was originally specialised in children’s wear, with its manager coming from a marked background of traditional knitting. The leap took place at in the early 1980s when the market demanded to cater for young women, teen-agers aged 16 to 18 years old. Since the business began, Paola Davoli has always demonstrated an extreme flexibility in its production. From then until the start of the 1990s, the definitive consolidation of the company took place: with wholesale sales in the international market, with a complete trends line for a medium refined market of women between 21 and 50 years old. The company’s proposed range of products is var
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Rome - (Adnkronos Multimedia) - The Carpi district ( www.carpifashionsystem.it ) has almost 2 thousand firms, with a staff of 10,000 and a turnover of EUR 1 billion, half of which accounted for by exports. Situated a few kilometres from Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region, it includes five local administrative units (comuni): Carpi , Cavezzo, Concordia, Novi and San Possidonio. This district is home to a network of small or tiny businesses in the textile sector, producing clothes, especially knitwear, largely for export markets. This is one of the areas where industry started earliest and developed most strongly. Out of a population of about 88,700 there is a workforce of 45,300 with an unemployment rate of 5%. The very high percentage workforce, together with a high level of business initiative, have enabled the local economy as a whole to draw on the skills of all sectors of the population, especially women. Manufacturing plays a very important part in the local economy. Within manu