Gruttadauria Michele Srl

A RENEWING STORY The initiator of the commercial activity was in the now distant 1937, at the age of only 18, Cav. Office Michele Gruttadauria. He, who grew up with four brothers, with his parents in an economic situation that was certainly not prosperous, started working by undertaking a small itinerant trade in haberdashery.In a short time, thanks to his innate gifts and considerable sacrifices sometimes pushed towards extreme, he managed to raise a small capital with which he opened a shop in the very central Corso Umberto. We are in forty, war breaks out and Cav. Gruttadauria is recalled In order not to let what he had built die at the cost of even superhuman sacrifices, he associated his brother Carmelo in the business and entrusted him, although he was still very young, with the management of the shop. It is in this moment that the firm M. & C. Gruttadauria was born and it is at this moment that from a haberdashery shop it begins to become a fabric shop. During those sad years of war, when everything was missing, in the shop of the Gruttadauria brothers it was possible to find a remarkable assortment of the products treated.The miracle occurred thanks to the dangerous trips to the North made by the young but dynamic Cav. Office Carmelo, who was thus able to supply the shop with what the already large clientele required. We are in forty-three. The Cav. Michele is captured by the retreating German units and sent to concentration camps: he will return when the war is over. Beyond this, another, much more serious misfortune falls on the Gruttadauria family. In the bombings of July forty-three, the parents and two sisters died under the rubble of their home. Only a little brother is saved, the youngest. The Cav. Carmelo, dry your tears, get back to work. He transfers himself and his little brother to the shop, which becomes his home at night, and continues his business while awaiting the return of his older brother. Business thrives and with a policy of savings and sacrifice, Cav. Carmelo constitutes a small capital which will allow, upon the return of Cav. Michele, the enlargement of the shop with another contiguous one. The fortunes of the shop increased and rapidly the owners, assisted and encouraged, now, by their wives, who are also sisters, buy a very large shop in the very central Corso Vittorio Emanuele. In the meantime, they buy an old building a few steps from the branch and, thanks to the trust placed in them by the banks, they demolish it and build a new seven-storey building there. On the ground floor, mezzanine and first floor they combine their activities to create a large commercial complex; the shop, in fact, extends for about nine hundred meters and employs forty employees. The new store was inaugurated in 1960. In recent years, thanks to the careful management of the owners, the business has prospered, never suffering, up to now, the repercussions of the changing general economic conditions. Another initiative was added to the existing complex. In fact, the company has opened a Boutique called "VIP", in order to satisfy the increasingly demanding young clientele. This shop, designed with criteria of elegance and functionality by a well-known architect, added a new touch to the already considerable esteem enjoyed in the local field. In 1989, after a long commercial career, with the takeover of their respective children, the company was effectively liquidated. Michele Gruttadauria, in March of the following year, with his son Antonio set up a limited partnership, which was subsequently transformed into a limited liability company which currently manages a men's / women's clothing store in Caltanissetta located in Corso Vittorio Emanuele 62-64.

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