This year, Hungary is hosting the Grand Depart of the 105th Giro d’Italia, but Italy is not far away, as the first international stage, Budapest–Visegrad, will start just a few blocks from Beghelli Hungary, a division of Beghelli, a 100% Italian-made group that has become synonymous worldwide with reliability and safety.
Creative restlessness
The Beghelli brand is the outcome of the talent of the Emilian entrepreneur Gian Pietro Beghelli who, thanks to a simple but revolutionary idea, managed to create a veritable empire in a few years. Gian Pietro Beghelli was born in Castello di Serravalle (BO) in 1945 and, at the age of 14, began working in his father’s barbershop. Gian Pietro, however, is a restless young man and, at 16, leaves that life to become an errand boy at the Post Office. After a few years, a new change. At 18, he became a waiter at the canteen for rail workers and then head of the Ducati canteen.
This is where his real growth begins: he shows determination and passion. He gets noticed and is offered other tasks.
In the early 1970s, he opened a small company with 15 employees and then two others to produce Ducati condensers. When Ducati went through a difficult period, he quickly converted the business to the manual production of pen cases and locks.
The first rechargeable battery-powered emergency lamp
But the idea that would make him famous dates back to 1976, when the frequent power cuts caused by snowfall on the hills around Monteveglio led him to reflect on the usefulness of lights that could operate even without electricity. Thus was born the first manual emergency lamp powered by rechargeable batteries, which would prove its worth in many circumstances, including dramatic ones such as the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, and which would become the flagship product of the Beghelli company, founded in 1982.
In the early 1990s, another revolutionary product was launched: the Tele Salvavita Beghelli home security system, with the memorable slogan “Just a finger’s touch is all it takes to get a helping hand”, followed gradually by new home and business security devices.
In 2008, Gian Pietro Beghelli was appointed Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Production and research into home security systems
Today Beghelli is a world leader in the production and research of home security systems (also against Covid 19), and its founder Gian Pietro holds the role of CEO and president. The group is based in Monteveglio (BO), employs thousands of people and has a turnover of hundreds of millions of Euros.
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