Technogym is an Italian world-leading manufacturer of sports and leisure equipment based in Cesena. It was founded in 1983 by Nerio Alessandri.[1] It has around 55,000 installations worldwide, in 35,000 wellness centres and 20,000 private homes. The company employs 2000 people in 14 branches in Europe, the United States, Asia, the Middle East, Australia and South America and exports 90% of its turnover to 100 countries[2]
Technogym has been the exclusive and official supplier for the athletes' training centres in the last 9 editions of the Olympic Games: from the Sydney Olympic Games to the Paris 2024 Olympics.
History
Entrepreneur Nerio Alessandri in the early 1980s began building the prototype of an exercise machine in the garage of his home in Cesena. He used a public telephone booth because he had no telephone at home, and got help from his brother Pierluigi Alessandri, from his then girlfriend and now wife Stefania, and from friends and neighbours who became his first collaborators. He left his job as a designer at a company in Cesena that manufactured automatic machines for packaging fruit, then rented a warehouse in Gambettola. In 1985 Technogym launched its first complete strength training line, and in 1986 it presented Unica, a home training multistation.