The ERCOLE MARELLI company was born in 1891 in Milan, as an individual company, on the initiative of Ercole Marelli, in his youth as a worker at the Tecnomasio Italiano in Milan. Initially the company produced electromechanical devices and, starting from 1896, began the manufacture of “air agitators” (today’s fans), until then imported from the United States, becoming in a few years one of the leading companies in the sector. world.