On October 17, the Milan-based Feltrinelli Foundation will host a celebration day marking the 50th anniversary of Gribaudo. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with authors, readers, and other key figures in the publisher’s history.
There will be Carlotta Perego, Beatrice Mautino, Dario Bressanini, Paolo Borzacchiello, Dario Fabbri, Verdiana Ramina and many others who will discuss topics such as sustainable eating, the science of everyday life, the science of emotions, geopolitics, food education, finance, and climate change.
The event, titled “Gribaudo: 50 years of passions for books,” will take place in the Foundation’s Multipurpose Hall.
Throughout the day there will be meetings, conversations, in-depth sessions, and opportunities for dialogue. The morning will be devoted to the “Passion for Green” (with Matteo Cereda, Pietro Isolan and Sara Petrucci, Francesca Della Giovampaola and Filippo Bellantoni, Sebastiano Guarisco) and to the “Passion for Knowledge” (with Paolo Borzacchiello, Demetrio Albertini, Ruggero Limberti – CFO of Starting Finance – and Arianna Montefiori – Editorial Director of Economika, Starting Finance –, Dario Fabbri); the afternoon to the “Passion for Science” (with Dario Bressanini, Beatrice Mautino, Alessandro Mustazzolu, Verdiana Ramina) and to the “Passion for Cooking” (with Davide Zambelli, Marco Pozzali, Francesca Giovannini, Carlotta Perego).
“Fifty years represent an extraordinary milestone, but above all an opportunity to thank those who have shared this journey: the authors we have given voice to through our publications, the booksellers who have brought them to readers and the readers themselves, who continue to choose our books every day. This celebration is dedicated to them,” emphasizes Claudia Presotto, Gribaudo’s editorial director, the publishing house of the Feltrinelli Group founded in 1976, and who “in the last fifteen years has quintupled turnover (+477%), and nearly quadrupled copies sold (+283%), with an increase of over 1.3 million (+1,390,235) copies.”
Among the leading brands in preschool publishing, today Gribaudo is a protagonist in children’s and young readers’ publishing and in the illustrated Varia.
Starting in 2027, moreover, Gribaudo’s “Varia” will be organized around three series: “Food & Drink”, “Popularization” and “Manuals”, while the “Girls and Boys” area will be divided into the following series: “First Books” (0-5 years), “Illustrated Picture Books”, “Varia 6+”, “First Readings”, “Fiction” (7-9), “Fiction” (10-14), “Illustrated Stories”, “Encyclopedias and Manuals” and “Christmas”.
