ITALIA CONSULTANT

Italia Consultant is a privately held firm privately run since 2004 and incorporated in July 2006 in Florence, Italy. Italia Consultant specializes as:

  1. Manufacturers and wholesale dealers of fine Made in Italy products: leather handbags, jewelry, fine shoes, silk scarves, under their own brand “Bellini” as well as OEM private label.
  2. Manufacturing agents in Italy of handbags and fine leather goods for a number of foreign brands.
  3. Manufacturers of custom Made in Italy dustbags / sleeperbags for fashion goods.
  4. Fashion brokers in Italy of brand name fashion.

Marino Caliterna, owner of Italia Consultant, is a dual citizen, Italian and British. Formerly a US resident, has extensive experience about cultural and business issues between Italy, the United States and Japan.

We are a small  business and choose to stay so in order to offer our clients a complete and personal service.

Our premises are conveniently located close to the center of Florence.

Italia Consultant has been doing business internationally for over 18 years. In the process, working also with Global 500 and Fortune 500 companies as well as government and international institutions.

We believe in integrity, honesty, thoroughness, long-lasting, happy clients.
Recent activity shows a marked growth owing to our reliability, integrity, connections with top Italian distributors, suppliers and manufacturers, keen attention to each client’s needs.

ITALIA TEAM

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Marino Caliterna

Owner
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Paolo Catucci

Fashion Photography and video
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Gaia Martelli

designer, custom collections
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Michele Moricci

designer

COMPANY RECORDS

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Registered company name: Italia Consultant di Marino Caliterna
Registered address of business: Via del Podestà 72/c – 50125, Florence, ITALY.
VAT Number (P. IVA): IT05658320485
Italian Chamber of Commerce records: CLTMRN67A11D612H
n. Rea: 564158
D-U-N-S Number (Dunn & Bradstreet): 33-842-8416

WHAT WE DO

FIELDS OF ACTIVITY

Italia Consultant starts in 2004 as a buying office and brokers on behalf of International clients seeking either high quality ready products or contract manufacturing in Italy.
Since the early 1800’s, many buying offices have been active in Florence, mostly connected with English and American trading companies. A heritage of global trading dating back to the early Renaissance and which eventually allowed Florence to become powerful and endowed with the works of art which are known to all of the world.
Keeping up with centuries of tradition in the age of the Internet, Italia Consultant specializes in better Made in Italy leather products manufacturing, contract manufacturing, private label products, sourcing, buying and consulting services for foreign businesses operating with Italy, production management, inspections, logistics.
Italia Consultant is also an exporter and  wholesale dealer of Made in Italy leather handbags, under its own brand “Bellini” as well as private label. Italian leather handbags, custom dust bags /drawstring bags for fashion products. All Made in Italy.

RECENT CLIENTS

Makeup Forever (LVMH) (FR) Dustbags

Balmain Hair (NL) Dustbags

Fashionette (DE) Handbags

Christie’s Inc. (USA-UK) Dustbags

Under Armour Inc. (USA) Dustbags

Polyvore (USA) Dustbags

Kjaques Saint Tropez (FR) Dustbags

Morabito Paris (FR) Small leather goods

Halm, Dubai (UAE) Custom handbags

Norwegian Wool (USA) Custom coats and blazers

Loro Piana (IT) Leather goods, Custom hardware

Tom Ford (USA) Custom hardware, clutches

Jean Paul Gaultier (FR) Handbags

Derek Lam (USA) Custom hardware

UGG (Australia) Custom hardware)

Akris (CH) Custom hardware, leather belts

Anya Hindmarch (UK), Hardware development

Cortiglia (USA) Handbags

Merci Marie Handbags (USA) Handbags

Launer (UK) Custom hardware

John Hardy (USA) Leather woven materials

Thomas Lyte (UK) Custom hardware

Judith Leiber (USA) Custom handbag frames

Canipelli Firenze (USA) Product development/sourcing

COMMITMENTS

Italia Consultant is committed to support and propagate the Italian lifestyle through quality Italian products. We believe that people’s lives and the world can improve from the present condition by adopting an Italian lifestyle, in the better sense of the word. An Italian lifestyle is a complex and healthy combination of aesthetics, innovation, pride in doing our job “as well as God demands” (as we say here), enjoyment of the fine but simple things of life, enjoyment of other people’s company.  All this enriches the experience of life.

In this, we are committed to support the smaller and traditional quality enterprises of Italy which offer a unique combination of skilled craftmanship, new ideas and technological innovation. Italia Consultant prefers to source its suppliers and manufacturers among those who comply with Italian and EU labour, environmental and fiscal laws and regulations.

Italia Consultant strives to make a small impact on the environnment and is proud to be a virtually paperless operation. Our CO2 emissions are estimated to be below 1 Ton/month.

Italia Consultant supports the children through UNICEF and Save The Children and invites you to do the same:

www.unicef.org

www.savethechildren.net

Full company profile and references are available upon request.

We support UNICEF

We support Save The Children