A Company can be called Historic* when its productivity and its economic impact have had, both in the past and the present, and, thanks to its current dynamism, will have in the future, a real influence on its social and cultural environment.

An "Historic Company" has at least a minimum age of one century. It has developed, since its very beginning, and continues to develop today, activities which follow a code of ethics and which are closely related to its birth place, where the company grew, established and consolidated itself.

The "Historic Company" has always demonstrated its capacity to assimilate and to use as well as possible innovations in the technological, economic, social and organisational fields. Its knowledge acquired over the years has moreover, exceeded the framework of its activities.

The "Historic Company" has thus been and will be in the future a factor of progress and modernisation in contemporary society.


* Definition given by the Association of Historic Companies of the town of Florence.