In 1951, Antonio, one of Romualdo’s sons, moved from the South to Melara town in the Northeast of Italy and quickly built the relationships with other firework manufacturers there to display fireworks until 1955. A year later, with the help of his two sons, Antonio established his own new factory in the area of 3,000 square meters including four workshops. Until now, the area of Parente’s factory is up to 100,000 square meters containing many ancillary buildings such as the storage to keep facilities and vehicles, about 20 workshops and 16 high quality stores to keep fireworks and gunpowder.
Besides the fireworks displays in the big events in Italy such as the opening and ending ceremonies of the 20th Winter Games in Turin and the opening ceremony of the 19th Games for the Disable in Turin, Parente has many special performances in many countries such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Malaysia. Its loyalty with the ideal based on the unification helps the company overcome many difficulties to reach the goals, which seem impossible and even are not thought to have an end by.
Established in 1998, under the management of the establisher Jacques Couturier, the Jacques Couturier Organisation (JCO) has blown a new wind into the world fireworks industry with the new technologies based on the perfect combination of music, light and professional fireworks effects.
JCO has always created its own marks in the poetic traditional performances by implementing the newest informatics technologies, which contributes to setting off every event JCO participating.
The Chinese team (Liuyang Dancing Group): Champion of DIFC 2009
The Liuyang Dancing Fireworks Group was established in the home city of fireworks on the beautiful Liuyang River by Mr. Zhong Ziqi in 1996.
Liuyang Dancing is in the area of 3000 ha and has got more than one thousand buildings with the total working area of 8,000 square meters, including an institute, a factory, a packing workshop, an advertising and trading company and a company specializing in the performing art.
This is one of the world largest fireworks groups. The total value of Liuyang Dancing is 30,000,000 Yuan and the average revenue every year in 2005 reached 110,000,000 Yuan.
The Group’s technique consultant is Mr. Li Zhongqi, who is said to be the master of Chinese fireworks and is especially recognized thanks to his great contributions to the country. There are also 200 technique experts and more than 1,000 experienced workers. Liuyang Dancing got the ISO 9001 certificate in 2002. Besides the fireworks performance, the Group also provides such services as consulting fireworks manufacture and designing fireworks performances on different holidays.
It’s the slogan “Practicality, Honesty, Development and Renovation” that reflects the prestige of the Group. Liuyang Dancing is proud of being placed reliance in by customers all over the world thanks to its strange, unique and diverse fireworks products.
The Canadian team (David Whysall Company): Champion of DIFC 2008
David Whysall, the head leader of the company, has experienced in fireworks industry in Britain, Australia and Canada for 47 years.
David Whysall has lots of spectacular and impressive performances in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Guatemala, Britain, Vietnam and Malaysia. In 2008, it was the champion of DIFC 2008.
In Canada, the Company has organized more than 650 performances in the last 11 years at the famous destination in the world – Niagara Waterfall. Many of these performances are held in the combination with Walt Disney Entertainment Company.
David Whysall has also signed long-term contracts with the cities, regions and annual events in Canada. They have many chances to take part in the fireworks festival namely “Festival of Fire” in Toronto, a continuous event of the famous fireworks festival “Symphony of Fire” in Canada.
The company’s professional and experienced technique staffs of the company have the passion, the devotion and team working spirit to ensure the performances carried out according to the plan.
Joe Ghazzal, Consultant Director of DIFC, said that he had never seen such an enthusiastic and hard-working team as David’s. They also work at break to make sure the work progress. David is an excellent fireworks programmer and they have a bright future.
