Answer by Researcher Emily Moore (journalist) on Wed 20 Jun 2007 - 4:41 pm UTC:

Greetings once again, Philip, and thank you for requesting my comments as
an answer.  It was quite a search to turn up what little I did find!  And I
located Gallo socks online but as they are women's 'footie socks' I didn't
think the link would be valid for your needs.  I 

Here is the Gallo footies link.
http://www.proidee.co.uk/shop/SID_aoxhNdUzpzBRMbgxELWryKre95ZC/F=produkt_formular/P=02_GB_HPN471169/SUCHTEXT=gallo/SUCHTEXT_EINGABE=gallo/ID_SEITE=1/MODUS_SEITENANSICHT=/LINKTRACKER=volltextsuche

And from the same company, Gallo control-top pantyhose
http://www.proidee.co.uk/shop/SID_aoxhNdUzpzBRMbgxELWryKre95ZC/F=produkt_formular/P=02_GB_HPN459032/SUCHTEXT=gallo/SUCHTEXT_EINGABE=gallo/ID_SEITE=1/MODUS_SEITENANSICHT=/LINKTRACKER=volltextsuche

Also, Hooper's (UK) mentions Gallo socks but the link on this page does not
feature socks. http://www.hoopers.ltd.uk/Menswear.html (scroll almost to
bottom, see "Gallo socks" above Gant image). You might want to query
Hooper's: http://www.hoopers.ltd.uk/enquiry.html


Should you need further clarification, please request it and I will be
happy to respond.

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Gallo contact info
Desenzano del Garda (Brescia) 
Phone: 390309901696 
Fax: 390309901450  
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:yq7tRvD0WqMJ:www.italianmoda.com/LinksIndex.cfm%3FcategoriaID%3D89%26st%3D31+gallo+hosiery+brescia+italy&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us


Gallo Brescia store information
http://www.zerodelta.net/soggetti.php?id_cat=15&id_are=23&id_voc=68&id_sog=4982


Gallo Scala store information (advance to page three of article)
“At number 23, on the other side of Via Manzoni heading up toward La
Scala, is the Gallo hosiery store. The acme of traditional quality
socks,stockings and pantyhose, Gallo has recently enlivened its product
line with a certain sparkle. Its new underwear collections will be
available from late October.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2000/10/07/runder.t.php


Gallo
Italian company making men's, women's, and children's hosiery. It was
established in Desenzano del Garda in the early 1900s. Almost a century
later, led by the general manager Giuseppe Colombo, it has sales of 10
billion liras a year, with exports amounting to 20% of that. It is a
factory, but the production philosophy is artisanal, setting rigorous
criteria for controlled growth in order to safeguard the quality of the
product. The eighty workers are mostly relatives of those who helped to
establish and develop the company. Every pair of socks is submitted to nine
quality tests. Only pure yarns are used, from extra fine merino wools to
Scotia thread cotton, linen, cashmere, and 100% pure silk, of which 6 miles
of thread are needed for each pair of men's socks. An in-house design
department offers, for every Collection, 70 different Patterns. 

2003, May. The company acquires 25% of the historic hosiery brand Doré
Doré, which was founded in Fontaine-Les-Grès, France. Giuseppe Colombo,
the general manager of Gallo, personally acquires the remaining 65% of the
shares of the new company, called Doré Doré 1819, of which he becomes the
president. The goal is to relaunch a brand that was born in the early 1800s
in a small family-run atelier, quickly grew to become a leader in the field
of women's hosiery, and suffered a marked decline in recent years due to
strong competition, with a turnover of €20 million.

http://dellamoda.it/fashion_dictionary/g/gallo.php 


GALLO
Make their debut at Living with a line of accessories. This historical
hosiery firm founded in 1927, shows products which are a distillate of
experience and art, handed down from father to son. Quality made of
concrete, precise actions, like the nine exacting checks on product
compliance to standards or the “rimaglio” the characteristic white
thread that is the GALLO “signature” and is still today added by hand.
The materials are only top-grade and rigorously “two-ply” or
“twisted” yarns of extra-fine Merino wool, pure lisle cotton, and 100%
linen, cashmere, and silk, so fine that almost 10 kilometers of thread are
needed to make one pair of men’s socks. Their tools range the first
English knitting-frames to the latest-generation Italian knitters as well
as historical Bentleys, still working after 50 years and still the only
machines that produce hosiery with micro-embroideries.

http://www.pittimmagine.com/clists/cfiles/13/Spigolature_Living_N.pdf 


Web translation of  Gallo shopping page at Di Bernardo of Gallo rimaglio
process (not a complete translation)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.di-bernardo.it/shopping_online/linee_uomo/gallo/basic.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgallo%2Brimaglio%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en%26sa%3DG


Mention of Gallo at Barney’s
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-64587.html 


Mentions of Gallo at Edward Green’s Burlington Arcade, London, and at Via
Manzoni, Milano
http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5592&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15


Socks by Gallo mentioned at Marco Evani, New York; Paris Europo,
Philadelphia; and Plain Clothes, Birmingham, AL.
“THEY'RE WOVEN IN ITALY of fine Scottish cotton. They have reinforced
heels and toes that don't feel bulky, and just enough elastic in their tops
to make sure they stay up all day. They look solid-colored here, but, when
worn, display hidden stripes of color between each band of ribbing. And
they sell for $35 a pair. Cotton socks by Gallo, at Marco Evani, New York;
Paris Europo, Philadelphia; and Plain Clothes, Birmingham, AL.”
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:E6SnLHuNzvEJ:members.forbes.com/fyi/2000/1113/FYEYE_9-29C_print.html+%22socks+by+gallo%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us


Mention of Gallo socks at Jay Kos on Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NY
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=37934 


Gallo outlet in Brescia (“Vendita diretta di abbigliamento” translates
to “Direct selling of apparel” Vendita diretta di abbigliamento U/D/B e
calze. A Desenzano del Garda (Bs), V.le Motta 125, Tel: 030/9110465 
http://www.tuttogratis.it/viaggi/sito/_b_gallo_outlet_b__65013.html 


(maglieria = hosiery)
Gallo Outlet Vendita diretta. ... Maglieria/Cashmere Via Genova, 76 - 25125
Brescia (BS) tel. 030-348693
http://www.geocities.com/mshm27/Factory_Outlets.html 


NOTE: Not sure if this has any relation to Gallo hosiery Investor report
mentioning Giuseppe Colombo in connection with Cross Factor S.P.A. – also
different mentions of Gallo not connected with Colombo (page in Italian
only)
http://www.meliorbanca.it/servizi/Italiano/uploaded/Relazione_trimestrale_31_03_06.pdf


My colleague, Answerfinder, alerted me to this Gallo listing with the email
and website address (website under construction).

Tel. 030 9901696 
Fax  030 9901450 
Web http://www.gallospa.it 
Email gallo@gallospa.it 

Anno costituzione 1985 
Quota export (%)  20 
Classe clienti da 1.001 a 3.000 
Classe addetti da 51 a 100 
Classe di fatturato da 2.500.001,00 a 5.000.000,00 
Capitale sociale € 1,020,000.00 
Capitale versato € 1,020,000.00 
Codice Fiscale 08068160152  
Iscrizione CCIAA BR 318580 
Tribunale Brescia 41348 
 
Link to above info located at
http://www.italybygm.it/settore/CALZE_7_GMSI-110.html#
Click on second listing: "Gallo S.p.A."



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