Molteni Group towards 560 million. 2025 record year for the office

A record year. Despite the uncertainties caused by American tariffs, persisting international geopolitical conflicts, and the whirlwind of technological change, revenue growth is expected to be close to 10% and will propel the Molteni group (Italy's largest industrial reality in the wholly family-owned furniture-design sector) towards EUR 560 million in turnover, with an Ebitda in double-digit growth. But, above all, "we are recording very positive and homogeneous growth in all divisions and companies," explains the group's CEO, Marco Piscitelli.

Not only did the flagship brand (Molteni&C, furniture and kitchens) manage to grow solidly in months when the design market slowed down globally. But, in addition, the UniFor and Citterio office companies experienced an unprecedented acceleration, having still managed to hold their own in the not-so-easy post-Covid years. "The competition in this sector is enormous and in recent years has increasingly shifted to the price factor," explains Piscitelli. "Therefore, it is a source of great pride for us to be appreciated and chosen by major clients for the quality and service we offer. Recent projects involving the office division include, for example, JP Morgan's new headquarters in New York, for which the Molteni Group supplied not only technical furnishings but also furniture for some common areas under the Molteni&C. brand.

The synergy between the different companies of the group is one of the factors that has accelerated its competitiveness in recent years: "For many of these large projects, we are working more and more as a group, offering solutions and products ranging from the home to the office, from boiseries to doors, from kitchens to the outdoors, passing through that world that lies between these two environments, which are increasingly contaminated with each other," observes Molteni&C vice-president Giovanni Molteni.

An integration also made possible by the substantial investments made every year to innovate the production lines (more than EUR 10 million in 2025 alone), particularly on the digitalisation and sustainability front. 'We are investing heavily in machinery that can communicate with each other even between different plants,' explains Giovanni Molteni. This is the beginning of a path that will take years, such as the integration of artificial intelligence systems in production, or the circularity of design and production. "By now we have become accustomed to reasoning over a time span of at least three years, as far as investments are concerned,' Piscitelli points out. 'For an extremely complex and varied group like ours, which generates its turnover through both retail sales and large contract projects, investment planning is fundamental. And this has guaranteed us measured, calculated, and stable growth for years now'.

In contrast to the furnishing sector, the Giussano-based group has in fact managed to grow at double-digit rates even in the retail sector, which has been suffering globally for almost two years, thanks also to a distribution strategy that focuses on flagship shops and directly operated shops (Dos). The last year has in fact seen not only the opening of several flagship stores around the world (including Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Wuhan, Bangkok), but also the acquisition of three Dos (in Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney). Another 12 new flagships are planned for 2026, from Riyadh to the Caymans, from Bangalore to Toronto, and a Dos in Lyon.