James Hoffman gives a good history of Bialetti here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgQsA5kLAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgQsA5kLAk including their sal

James Hoffman gives a good history of Bialetti here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgQsA5kLAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgQsA5kLAk including their sale to Faema and later to a cookware manufacturer, their numerous brushes with bankruptcy, and the stiff competition they've gotten from... even in Italy... pod machines.