GDE Bertoni
Italian trophy and medal manufacturer
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GDE Bertoni, also known as Stabilimento Artistico Bertoni, is a trophy and medal manufacturing company based in Milan, Italy. The company's most famous production is the FIFA World Cup Trophy, which it has produced ever since winning a design competition in 1970. A brass replica of the FIFA World Cup Trophy is hand-crafted every four years by the company, to be awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup.[1]
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
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| Founder | Emilio Bertoni |
| Headquarters | , Italy |
Key people | Valentina Losa (CEO) |
| Website | Official website |
GDE Bertoni started as a small artisanal workshop founded in the early 1900s[2][3] by Eugenio Losa before becoming a large production company in the 1960s after creating the Olympic medals for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[4] When FIFA held a competition for a new trophy design in 1970, Losa presented concept sketches and a physical prototype of a design by Silvio Gazzaniga, winning the competition.[5] Every award produced by GDE Bertoni is created with traditional artisan techniques and built by hand.[1][6] The trophies awarded to winners of the FIFA World Cup are not the original, but rather bronze replicas plated in gold created by GDE Bertoni.[7]
GDE Bertoni has a contract with the royal court of Bahrain to produce the country's military medals[8] and produces several trophies for UEFA, including the European Champion Clubs' Cup, the UEFA Europa League trophy, and the UEFA Super Cup trophy.[1] The company also produced the medals for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[3]
Notable productions
Notable awards produced by GDE Bertoni include:
1960 Summer Olympics medals[4]
1980 Summer Olympics medals[3]
UEFA Europa League trophy[1]
UEFA Super Cup trophy[1]
Austrian Cup medal
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