History of Acerbis, from mudguards to Serie A A strong company that could aim for the top in Europe

The Spezia jersey, an armchair and motocross tanks apparently have nothing in common, not even in the remotest of hypotheses would it be possible to find a correlation between the three things. And yet there is a man who started from his garage, like all the big multinationals of today, such as Amazon or Apple, who since 1973 has managed to combine these three things, making the management of three opposite sectors an absolute strong point, so much so that he recorded a turnover of 50 million in 2018. Going back in time, the story of the Acerbis family, or rather of Franco Acerbis, the man who started it all, can be summed up by citing a small episode from the beginning of his career, which helps us understand his vision. In the first year of life Franco Acerbis and his company were producing mudguards for an American company, a very good business if not that after about a year that multinational company closed its doors, leaving Acerbis in a vacuum. One of the problems of the time was putting petrol in the plastic, something considered risky by all. As told in an interview by PrimaBergamo, Acerbis sought new solutions for the world of two wheels: "I did the first tests: I went up on the terrace of my house, on the third floor, I took an aluminium tank and a plastic one, I filled them with water and dropped them. The aluminium one broke, the plastic one didn't. It was the right way."

Today the Acerbis distribution network covers 55 countries around the world, offering an assortment of over 1,800 products also launching in volleyball and rugby, has created the seats of the stadiums creating the seats of Juventus Stadium, the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the sky box of San Siro, also Acerbis now works with Aprilia, BMW, Cagiva, Ducati, Honda, KTM, Triumph and Yamaha and for two years now is in the top Italian football league with Spezia. Now after the bond issue to finance the brand again, growth is expected to arrive by 2023, allowing Acerbis to sit at the table of the big.