Following its recent investment in an Outline GTO C-12 large-format line array, Italian rental company Cipiesse has added Outline’s Superfly to its inventory.
A long-established company based in Rezzato, near the northern Italian city of Brescia, Cipiesse has been a fixture of the shows, conventions and events business for almost 50 years.
Having secured a series of important new contracts for the current live season, the company has longstanding commitments to the Brescia, Bergamo and Vallecamonica Summer Music series, and has now won the contracts for several new festivals.
In the northern Italian region of Lombardy, it will handle Lazzaretto Estate in Bergamo, a summer season built around a wide-ranging, high-profile programme; in the neighbouring region of Veneto, it takes on Bassano Music Park in Bassano del Grappa, where Sting will headline a bill of major international names in July. Together, these engagements confirm the company’s rising profile on the Italian live scene and explain its continued investment in industry-benchmark systems.
Cipiesse’s relationship with Outline stretches back to the 1990s, when it first began using the Brescia manufacturer’s point-source systems. In the early 2000s it adopted the Butterfly line array – still in service today – and later the Mantas range, before last year’s move to the GTO C-12. With Superfly, the company takes a further step along a path it has followed for three decades under the guidance of founder Santo Bertocchi and partner and operations manager Marco Riva.
‘With Superfly now at Cipiesse, the Outline network in Italy grows a little wider, and for rental companies that counts for more and more,’ says Federico Bianchi, General Manager of Audio Link, Outline’s Italian distributor. ‘When a service company lands a production that outstrips its own inventory, being able to turn to colleagues who run the same systems makes all the difference: you can top up your stock with identical products at short notice and keep the whole set-up consistent, even on the largest productions.
‘It is a real operational advantage, above all in terms of time, and it is one of the reasons why more and more Italian rental companies are choosing Outline.’