Focaccia Group acquires NCT factory
Focaccia Group: a new chapter of growth
Focaccia Group, a company specialising in the outfitting of vehicles, recently announced the acquisition of the historic NCT – Nuova Carrozzeria Torinese factory, marking a significant advance in its path of growth and consolidation. This plant, a former Lancia and Abarth factory, is at the centre of a precise strategic choice of the Group.
Group Chairman Riccardo Focaccia outlined the company’s ambition, ‘Ours is to become an all-round reference point for the market in which we have been operating since my father Licio moved the business founded by my grandfather to Cervia in the 1960s’.
The acquisition of NCT, founded in 1962 as the main production site of the car manufacturer Lancia, is part of a strategic plan initiated by Focaccia in 2022. This move includes the acquisition of the Mobitecno company, marking the Group’s entry into the ambulance and medical vehicle sector.
The Focaccia Group has placed a strong emphasis on research and development, creating a dedicated centre within the company with a team of 30 people. ‘We started with vehicles for the local police, Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza, and emergency vehicles by working alongside car manufacturers and participating in ministerial tenders. We now produce around 4,000 outfittings every year, distributed worldwide‘ explained Riccardo Focaccia.
The new production unit of Nuova Carrozzeria Torinese covers an area of 20,000 square metres. This acquisition will join the Focaccia Group plant in Cervia, which currently employs around 200 people.
Having reached one goal, one must already think of the next
Riccardo Focaccia also emphasised the Group’s path of constant growth: “The acquisition of the Nuova Carrozzeria Torinese plant is another of the steps we have been taking since the beginning of our history along the road of continuous challenge to improvement. It is in our DNA. Since 1954 we have been keeping the bar straight without ever straying too far from the goal. This is what has allowed us to grow while always holding firm to our principles based on hard work and innovation, understood as the ability to always look at things in an alternative way’.
Riccardo concludes by reflecting on his father’s teaching: ‘The lesson left by my father is that there is never an end. Once you have reached one goal you already have to think about the next one’.
This acquisition therefore represents not only a significant step forward for the Focaccia Group, but also the promise of further developments and innovations in the near future.