Herno

Herno was founded in 1948 in Lesa, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, by Giuseppe Marenzi and his wife Alessandra Diana. It was just after the war, and Giuseppe was looking for a job with a company that manufactured raincoats. Although they weren't actively hiring, Giuseppe was taken on. It didn’t take long for him to leave that job and start his own business. The climate around Lake Maggiore is extremely humid and rainy, so well-made raincoats were in high demand. Herno was thus founded based on opportunity, intuition, and inventiveness. Its story starts with water: water from Lake Maggiore and the Erno River, which flows near the company and gives it its name.