The company - History

IMAC SpA has been working for nearly thirty years in the footwear industry and is nowadays one of the five Italian biggest manufacturers in the field of shoes for men, women and kids. It employs both the conventional technology of the “mounted” bottom and the injection directly onto the upper of the polyurethane foam bottom.


IMAC SpA was first created in 1974 by two brothers, David and Renato MAZZOCCONI
as a laboratory for uppers hemming for the account of third parties and managed in a short time to produce up to 15.000 pairs of bound uppers a day.



At the beginning of the 80’s, the uppers factory was turned into a shoe factory and began to produce by using a technology consisting in the direct injection on the polyurethane bottom, which turned out to be a very innovative choice at that time for the Italian footwear industry.

In 1985, the factory started to produce and to market shoes with the IMAC brand. Over the years, a significant experience has been acquired as well as the know-how required to manufacture waterproof shoes,by means of special water protective and transpiring membranes.



In 1997, the factory began to move in countries such as Tunisia, Bulgaria and Romania.


In 2001, the factory IGI Calzature e Tecnologie Srl located in Ellera di Corciano (PG) was taken over, bringing with it the famous kids’ shoe brand PRIMIGI. Always in that year, the firm obtained the UNI EN ISO 9002:1994 certification of the Quality System, renewed and enriched in 2004 by the achievement of UNI EN ISO 9001:2000

In 2002 is the starting year for the creation of the IGI&Co, destined to satisfy that sphere of the Men-Women market demanding great-value footwear, highly oriented towards stylistic research and technological innovation.


In 2004, co-operation with the renowned trademark GORE-TEX begins, with the aim of creating waterproof and transpirable shoes, which will result in 2009 in the production and marketing of the revolutionary SURROUND model, a waterproof and completely transpirable shoe.

In 2008, the IMAC Group enlarges their business by opening the single-brand store chain PRIMIGI STORE, characterized by a new format, i.e. including shoes, clothing and accessories from 0 to 14 years: in one single shop, it is possible to buy anything for a child from foot to head.

Today, the Company is active on six manufacturing sites (total area 46000 m2) :

• Montefiore dell ’Aso – Ascoli Piceno Province
• Ripatransone – Ascoli Piceno Province
• Ellera di Corciano – Perugia Province
• Colonnella – Teramo Province
• Bizerte – Tunisia
• Bobol Dol - Bulgaria

In 2010 it manufactured 7,2 millions shoes and trades 1,7 million clothes, thus achieving a total yearly turnover of about 170 million Euro, employing 1460 direct employees (620 of them in Italy) and creating a linked activities including about 70 companies with 7000 employees in 11 different countries worldwide.

In 2011, is expected a further significant increase that would bring the group to the 200 million euro turnover.