Erredi-Galata

[Danju]

I just saw they released a couple of new Albums that days.
Never heard about this company what did they do befpre or is it you a newcomer ?
I checked their homepage looks like a distributer that had nothing to to with stickers so far.
If anyone has more Infos about, maybe our Italian guys i would be pleased to have a look inside and some more informations, just saw the covers so far...
Very might for a company to start publishing Stickers in the Homeland of Panini, don´t you think so too ?

What I like on first view is , they released 5 Albums at the same time and all do have a very different look, not like Panini or Topps where the covers sometimes look very close to each other.

 

[Manfred]

On their website 8 Italian clubs are mentioned

 

[Pavle]

I heard of them a while ago. I believe they had some neat Juventus collection few years back. It seams they specialize in club collections, probably because Panini has agreement with FA of Italy.
I am sure @Caniggia can solve this riddle and provide more info on them.

 

[Manfred]

A couple of years ago there was Footprint with albums of Italian, French and Spanish clubs. They were very expensive, € 60 for a complete album, € 0,70 for a single sticker and the shipping was also huge.

 

[Caniggia]

Erredi has printed different albums also in last years. Ok in Italy we have Panini (thanks to God.. and Panini bros too ) but there are also severals. Erredi is in charge for some individual clubs, it doesn't mean they have exclusive, they just bought license to do. Panini has an agreement with Italian Federation than also with every single club you find in the Calciatori album (at least for A and B, I don't know about other leagues). For this reason few years ago we have taken risk to have Calciatori without Napoli, beacuse president De Laurentis wouldn't give authorization. But you can understand, shall be a kind of "boomerang" for Napoli image, so nothing happen. This is main reason why Napoli is not inside Fifa365 instead of Roma or Lazio.

There are some interesting articles and books about history of stickers in Italy; about Calciatori and also WC we had many albums. I think all other publishers (after 70's) were wrong, let's do your own album but if your aim is "fight" with Panini, you loose.. NO WAY! I think Erredi, like others, have thought something different.. better to work about a small market then try to make something similar with mighty Calciatori (or WC also)

Years ago Preziosi (the actual president of Genoa FC) has tryed to make something really professional and results were good (album about Maradona, Ferrari, etc) but anyway after few of years the stopped

 

[Pavle]

I really liked Preziosi stuff. Haven't seen a lot of it but, what I saw was quite good. I think they also did something with action figures if I am not mistaken.

 

[Caniggia]

Giochi Preziosi is one of biggest toy factories in Italy, maybe they have produced also items like action figures but honestly I don't remember