Translated by
Nicola Mira
Revealed
December 9, 2024
Struggling Bally is restructuring its operations. After asserting 65 redundancies in Switzerland final month, the Swiss luxurious label is planning to shut its manufacturing web site in Italy, positioned in Lastra a Signa, on the outskirts of Florence, chopping 55 jobs. Bally’s resolution was made public by the commerce unions and confirmed by the native authorities.
Bally, Spring/Summer season 2025 – ©Launchmetrics/highlight
“On December 5, the legal representative of Bally Studio Srl announced the closure of the Lastra a Signa factory, without making any safeguarding provisions for the 55 employees, all of whom have been dismissed,” the unions advised the native press.
On Monday December 9, the mayor of Lastra a Signa, Emanuele Caporaso, stated he had been knowledgeable by the unions “of major problems related to the continuation of Bally Studio Srl’s local business activity. These problems were then revealed as extremely serious, when [Bally’s] owners announced they would proceed to close down the site.” Contacted by FashionNetwork.com, Bally Studio Srl has not but replied.
