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.
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 2019 the entrepreneurial dream of Salvatore and Sergio celebrated the first twenty-five years of incessant activity. What started as a project in 1994 has now become a structured group, Toma Italian Brands, creator, manufacturer and distributor of Italian brands.
Today
What has remained unchanged in recent years are values, commitment and vision. A leitmotiv that the two founders with their sons Verdiana and Angelo Toma, plan and develop, creating future business strategies that will lead the Toma Italian Brands group towards new goals.