Garlando is a company based in Italy that produces pocket billiards (pool), table football (foosball) and ping pong tables.
History
Garlando was founded officially in 1954 at Spinetta Marengo – a small village near Alessandria – by Renato Garlando, the father of the present managing director, already in the market for the production of various wood objects. An activity that he, in his turn, had inherited from his father.
Following the success of table football, originating in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s,[1] and later the United States, Spain and France, Renato Garlando decided to produce them for the Italian market, where he had unexpected success.
From then on, the company continuously grew. Foreign countries were added to the domestic revenue, including overseas to the United States, where the Garlando football tables experienced a boom in the 1970s.
During this time, Garlando began manufacturing pool tables with the same domestic success as with table football equipment.
In the course of the 1980s, the current managing director, Giuseppe Garlando, took the lead and, with his brother Marino, began renovating the working procedures which, from still largely craftsmanlike, became industrialised and standardised.