Bertone

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Gruppo Bertone
Type
Founded Turin, Italy (1912)
Headquarters Turin, Italy
Key people Giovanni Bertone (Founder)
Lili Bertone (CEO)
Industry Automotive
Services engineering products and processes,building prototypes and cars, producing special windscreens
Employees 1350
Divisions Stile Bertone
Bertone Engineering
Carrozzeria Bertone
Bertone Glass
Website Bertone.it

Gruppo Bertone is an Italian car styling and coachbuilding house, which also manufactures cars. Bertone styling is very distinctive, with most cars having a strong "family resemblance" even if badged by different manufacturers. Bertone has styled cars for Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Iso Rivolta, Lancia, Lamborghini and Volvo Cars among others. In addition the Bertone studio were responsible for two of the later designs of the famous Italian motorscooter " Lambretta". The highly innovative and influential-if unsuccessful "Luna" range and the DL/GP -a makeover of the established LI Ser III design

The company is based in Turin. It was founded as Carrozzeria Bertone in 1912 by Giovanni Bertone, with designer Nuccio Bertone taking over after World War II. The company was divided into two units — the Carrozzeria building as many as 40,000 cars per year at its height, and the styling studio, Stile Bertone. The company is currently headed by Lilli Bertone, widow of Nuccio.

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Bertone applied for Concordato Preventivo in November 2007, the Italy’s equivalent of America’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to several years of financial losses.[1] The company has reportedly posted a total loss of €37.3m (US$55.4m) over the past three years, on sales of €325m.[2] The Concordato Preventivo will allow Bertone bosses to reorganize their operations while protected from creditors. Bertone's 1,350 employees have been protected and paid by an Italian government funded scheme, which expires at the end of 2007.

CEO Lili Bertone commented that the company is “conducting confidential talks with Italian and international industrial and financial entities to secure Carrozzeria Bertone a future in vehicle manufacturing”.

Lamborghini Miura
Lamborghini Miura
Iso Grifo
Iso Grifo
Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint
Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint
BMW 3200 CS
BMW 3200 CS
Lambretta Luna Range
Lambretta Luna Range

  1. ^ Bertone's on the brink. autocar.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
  2. ^ Italy: Carrozzeria Bertone files for bankruptcy protection. automotiveworld.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-21.

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