“Our biggest challenge is international competition,†explained owner Gianluca Marcolini, who added that they have met this challenge in a variety of ways. When sourcing stone, the firm has its own affiliated block trading company, PNS Italia, which was acquired in 2000. This company has stockyards in Carrara and Verona, and it supplies blocks for Marcolini as well as La Ponte Marmi, which joined the organization in 1974 and works exclusively in granite.
By maintaining a common channel for purchasing within the group, Marcolini can carefully monitor the quality of the blocks it purchases, and it also has increased buying power and can gain exclusives from certain quarries.