Garlando Football Tables

Garlando have been designing, producing and distributing table football games for the world market since the 1950s.

Various models of football tables are produced for the commercial coin-operated market and for the domestic home use market. Garlando are renowned for their quality of materials and their skillful design.

This, together with the use of modern facilities, innovative production methods and strong support from their skilled workforce has given Garlando table footballs the edge on its competition and enabled continuous growth.

Due to its research and development programme and with over 50 years experience, Garlando has registered several patents, becoming a world leader in the table football games market. If it's quality you want then Garlando football tables are the only choice.

Garlando was founded officially in 1954 at Spinetta Marengo - a small village near Alessandria, Italy - by Renato Garlando, the father of the present managing director, already in the market for the production of various wood objects. An activity that he, in his turn, had inherited from his father.

Following the success of the football tables coming from France, Renato Garlando decides to try to produce his own table football and the success his products has among the Italian public is so large as it was unexpected.

These first Garlando football tables manufactured for the company definitely built the solid basis for its bright future.

From this point on the company continuously grows in the football table market. Foreign countries begin to order, this including the United States, where the Garlando football tables have a real boom in the Seventies. The Piedmont company in the States is now considered a world leader in Garlando tables.

In the course of the Eighties, the current managing director, Giuseppe Garlando, takes the lead and, with his brother Marino, begins renovating the working procedures of the Garlando football tables which, from still largely craftsmanlike, become industrialized and standardized.

In the same period the factory dimensions enlarge, the number of the employees increases, while they become more and more skilled, new computerized machineries are purchased to reach the outmost precision in the output of all Garlando football tables, new foreign markets are open on which Garlando soon becomes a leader.

In the Nineties new steps are taken while the turnover takes off, the North African and East Europe markets are added, the product Garlando Football table range expands to meet the requirements of new segments of the public.

To meet more and more urgent production requirements, late in 2002 the company leaves Spinetta Marengo to move to the much more modern premises at Pozzolo Formigaro, near Novi Ligure, a dozen kilometres from the old seat.

This provides the platform for Garlando football tables to move into the 21st century.

The company now covers a 10.000 square meter area, it is equipped with the most modern machines to work the wood as well as to mould the plastic and employs well over 60 people, both for the office and the factory.

Garlando football tables continue to evolve with more modern and creative designs being realeased each year.

The Garlando football tables have also been used by the British Football Association and they manufacture the football table of the world champions, the ITSF Official Table. (pictured on the right)

So what next for Garlando and the game of Foosball?

The prospects are good even in difficult times. The game has never been more popular and Garlando have never been as committed. So the future looks bright.

Whilst many companies are playing catch up with design and innovation Garlando are moving forward with new ideas, sleek design ranges and enhanced technology.

With Garlando we can honestly say that the football tables they manufacture are some of the finest products on the market. They back this up with a full range of spares and accessories.

To view the complete and up to date Garlando football tables range please take some time to view the Foosball Store website.