OUR HISTORY, OUR MILESTONES
Toma Italian Brands is an Italian fashion group based in Apulia, specializing in the design, production, and distribution of men’s and women’s apparel.
Rooted in a fourth-generation family business, the group embodies a blend of tradition and forward-thinking strategies, enabling dynamic growth while staying true to its heritage.
Today, Toma Italian Brands operates through a portfolio of owned labels and licensed brands, developing strong distribution networks both nationally and internationally.
OUR HISTORY, OUR MILESTONES
Toma Italian Brands, an Italian group in the fashion segment, is an apulian reality specialized in the creation, production and distribution of men’s and women’s clothing.
The group is an expression of conscious business strategies, that have made us capable to dynamically evolve while maintaining the solid roots of a fourth generation family business story.
Today the group operates through owned brands and licences developing national and international distribution networks.
Milestones
40’s
A story that has its root in Sava, land of the great and precious vineyards and centuries-old olive groves, in Puglia in the 1940s when Brigida, a woman of strong determination and singular character with the support of her talented husband Salvatore, already a skilled tailor, started their business through the marketing of used clothing, which arrived in Italy with the American troops in addition to the management of the family tailoring.
60’s
Three of Brigida and Salvatore’s six sons went on, inspired by their parent’s initiative, to produce and market clothing in Southern Italy.
Not with a few sacrifices, the three brothers: Gino, Michele and Angelo Toma built, over the years, a reality of reference both with the production of outerwear and in the wholesale of total looks for men and women in Southern Italy.
90s
In the 1990’s, Angelo’s two sons Salvatore and Sergio, perceiving the changes that the clothing sector would face shortly therafter, decided to invest in a new business vision, a wide-range project that aimed to reach distant horizons.
In 1994 they founded G.S.T. srl (Textile Development Group) and their first brands: Havana&Co. total look for men and Julian Keen, total look for women.
This allowed to approach first the national territories and then international territory, giving prestige to the family tailoring tradition.
The last 10 years
In 2014, Salvatore and Sergio’s entrepreneurial dream celebrates its first twenty years of incessant activity. What began as a project in 1994 has now become a structured group, Toma Italian Brands, creator, producer and distributor of Italian brands owned by them such as Havana&Co. and Angelo Toma Cerimonia and a reliable partner for licensed projects.
Today
What has remained unchanged in these thirty years of Toma Italian Brands are the values, commitment and vision. The enhancement of the territory, of Made in Italy, remains the leitmotif that the two founders, supported by their children Verdiana and Angelo Toma, fourth generation, pursue daily. Sustainability applied to products and processes is an integral and constitutive part of a business strategy that looks to the future. This is how HavanaECO was born, a genderless, artisanal and sustainable collection. Made with innovative fabrics derived from waste from other industries such as the agri-food and wine-making industries, combined with natural dyeing and printing processes.