Founded in 1982 by Gian Pietro Beghelli, the Beghelli Group is leader in Italy and Europe in the emergency lighting market; Beghelli group also operates in the sectors of energy saving lighting, electronic systems for domestic and industrial safety and photovoltaic power production. The Beghelli leadership is based on the capacity to understand the market requirements; through the years, the investments made on quality and Beghelli brand – known by the 92,2% of the Italian population (Doxa poll source) – concurred to the success of the Group in its traditional operating markets thus representing a success guarantee for the launch of new products.
The R&D activity is essential for the Beghelli Group that allocates huge investments in it to develop technologically innovative products both from their functional and design features. The research activity which permanently involves 15% of the company staff, is performed in the Group laboratories and experimental centers that take care also of the design, engineering, testing and certification of the production.
The holding company is responsible for the strategies and for the industrial, commercial and financial coordination. Its site, located in Monteveglio (Italy), houses the executive offices, the logistic center for the Italian and European market, a wide structure of laboratories for R&D, design, engineering, testing and product certification.
The Beghelli Group, which is publicly traded at Milan stock exchange since 1998, comprehends also six international companies operating in the research, production and marketing sectors.
Beghelli Servizi was founded in the '90s, on the basis of Gian Pietro Beghelli's forward-thinking plan to link a series of "Service" packages with Beghelli's products. The company has historically been active in the personal and workplace safety sector, through the SOS Beghelli Operational Center , which constantly monitors and manages thousands of Beghelli devices designed to provide assistance and protection to individuals. Beghelli Servizi is an E.S.Co. (Energy Service Company), and as such, offers a range of possibilities for the integration of lighting systems, with a host of different proposals for the market, founded on more than 10 years of experience in energy efficiency across all economic sectors, both private and public.
The production plant of all the electronic components of the Beghelli products is Elettronica Cimone, placed in the Apennine mountains, near Modena. Everyday more than 1.500.000 electronic components are installed on the circuit boards of the products.
In the heart of the hills surrounding Bologna is the manufacturing center producing molded components for Beghelli products.
The company, located near Brno city center (Czech Republic), performs its activity in its own manufacturing site that has a total surface of 20.700sqm of which 11.000sqm indoors.
Beghelli Elplast design and manufactures lighting fixtures, particularly metal fittings, with modern and technologically advanced production lines completing the plastic materials products range of the Beghelli Group.
In 2000 Beghelli acquired Praezisa, the second most important German company specialized in central battery systems production. The company is in Dinslaken, in its own building that has a surface of about 22.000sqm of which 4.000sqm indoors.
It markets the range of Beghelli Elplast products in Poland.
Its own property has a surface of about 40.000sqm of which 32.000sqm dedicated to manufacturing with many light fixtures production lines, die casting aluminum machines and several automatic lines for painting. Thanks to its wide lighting fixtures catalogue, it can satisfy enquiries coming from the industry, tertiary and public lighting sectors.
The company operates following the ISO 9000 standard and it is able to realize fixtures according to the international quality and production norms.