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THE TIMELINE
The hundred-year history of the Suvini-Zerboni company began with its founding in Milan. SZ began as a Theatre Management company that owned and managed entertainment venues in Milan, specializing ...
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1948
When Paolo Giordani died, his heir Ladislao Sugar became sole owner of Suvini-Zerboni. In addition to the group of contemporary music writers Giordani had already collected...
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1955
Sugar began to expand its publishing outside Italy. In the American edition performed by the Glen Miller orchestra, two songs by Eldo Di Lazzaro published by Sugar soared to the top of the charts ...
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1959
Ladislao Sugar purchased the remaining 50% from Teddy Reno and became the sole owner of Compagnia Generale del Disco (CGD), which in just a few years became the largest Italian record house along ...
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1966
"Nessuno mi può giudicare", a Sugar track, helped make a name for the new CGD star Caterina Caselli at the Sanremo Festival, and above all, on the market, where it stayed at the top of the ...
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1970
Caterina Caselli and Piero Sugar announced their marriage. Caterina Caselli withdrew from the scene as a performer. The same year, Ladislao Sugar founded CGD with CBS Italia, and created CBS-Sugar ...
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1971
Caterina and Piero welcomed the birth of their son Filippo Sugar.
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1975
Caterina Caselli founded her trendy label, which operated within CBS-Sugar. The name ASCOLTO, which means 'listening' in Italian, helped convey her intention of bringing to market new talents ...
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1977
With its association with CBS concluded, CGD became an independent once again, with a portfolio of leading artists that included Ornella Vanoni, Gigliola Cinguetti, Pooh, Umberto Tozzi, Loredana ...
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1981
Ladislao Sugar died at age 85 without having ever retired. Piero Sugar became President of the group, with Caterina Caselli in the role of Vice President. In subsequent years under Caterina's ...
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1989
Despite the significant industrial position it had achieved in all its areas of operation (record production and duplication with CGD, distribution and management of retail stores with Messaggerie ...
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1993
It was the year of the fateful meeting between Caterina Caselli and the man with "most beautiful voice in the world", Andrea Bocelli. Caterina heard his voice almost by chance in Mantua where he ...
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1994
At the Sanremo Festival, Andrea Bocelli won in the newcomers category with "Il Mare Calmo della Sera." His performance solicited an incredibly rare standing ovation from the audience and cemented ...
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1995
It was the year of "Con Te Partirò", a track written especially for the voice of Andrea Bocelli by Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto, and the lead song on the album "Romanza". Its ...
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1996
This was the year Elisa was discovered. This eighteen-year-old singer-songwriter from Friuli wrote and sang in English. Winner of an Italian Music Award for her debut album "Pipes & Flowers" ...
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1999
After winning a Golden Globe, Andrea Bocelli nearly snagged an Oscar for The Prayer, produced by David Foster and performed with Celine Dion. Sogno, Bocelli's second pop album, sold over seven ...
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2000
It was the first of two years of triumph at SanRemo for Caterina, who won with the elegant group Avion Travel and their song "Sentimento". With Arie Sacre, recorded with the Orchestra Nazionale di ...
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2001
Elisa won the Sanremo Festival with "Luce" (Tramonti a Nord Est), her first song in Italian, written in collaboration with Zucchero Fornaciari. The teen band Gazzosa, another of Caterina's ...
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2006
As part of a restructuring in publishing stategies designed to confront the digital challenges of the new millennium in the best possible condition, the Sugar family sold the operations of ...
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1932
Ladislao Sugar (Budapest 1896 - Milan 1981) had worked as a publisher in Hungary, where he published "Al Cavallino Bianco", before he moved to Milan with a company that performed operettas. Once ...
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1933
Suvini-Zerboni purchased the edition of "Tanto pe' cantà " by vaudeville giant Ettore Petrolini, the oldest song in its publishing catalogue up to that point.
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1934
Ladislao Sugar joined attorney Paolo Giordano as a partner in Suvini-Zerboni, and took over de facto leadership a year later. From 1935 to 1948 the publishing catalogue expanded from the most ...
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1936
Ladislao Sugar founded the "Messaggerie Musicali" distribution company, with offices in the store on Galleria del Corso in Milan. Among other things, it published "Canzoniere della ...
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1937
Ladislao Sugar acquired Mascheroni editions, created by the famous composer, who remained the artistic director and lead composer. That same year, his son Piero was born.
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1952
Ladislao Sugar combines his work as a publisher and distributor with that of record producer, buying 50% of Compagnia Generale del Disco (founded by Teddy Reno in 1948), for which it already ...
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1960
Piero Sugar, son of Ladislao and Marta Soleri, joined his father in top management at the Group.
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1964
Synergies between the publishing and record sections begin to bear fruit. "Non ho l'età (per amarti)", a track published by Sugar and performed by a CGD artist - the very young Gigliola ...
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2007
Despite the crisis in the record market, with the number of records sold dropping 50% in less than three years, Caterina's and Filippo's artistic and entrepreneurial skills carried them to sales ...
