OUR CREDO.

Born as a family business in Italy over seventy years ago, we have grown into an international company with offices around the world, while preserving the strong values and sense of family that define who we are. We are committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and ethical work environment, where every individual is respected, considered a team player, and given equal opportunities for employment, development, and career growth.
Our greatest responsibility is toward the global community of water-sport lovers: scuba divers, snorkelers, free-divers, swimmers, and everyone who enters the sea using our products. We strive to help them enjoy the underwater world in the safest and most enjoyable way possible.

Every product we design follows clear principles: it must be functional, easy to use, repairable, and built to last. The longevity of our products, often proven by vintage equipment still in use today, reflects the strength of our design and manufacturing. Creating long-lasting products also helps reduce our environmental impact. Even small, responsible actions can contribute to meaningful change, helping protect our oceans and underwater worlds for future generations.

Marco Cressi

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WHY

To manufacture products
that improve people’s experience while doing water activities.

HOW

By focusing on manufacturing high quality products that we test in the sea ourselves.

WHAT

We develop iconic products that revolutionise the water sports since 1946.

PASSION AND RESPECT.

ITALIAN KNOW-HOW

INNOVATION

Cressi’s legacy of innovation began in 1939 with two brothers who shared a passion for the sea and a gift for technical design and working with their hands. By 1946 their designs and products had become so popular they founded the Cressi company in Genoa, Italy. Today, although Cressi is a worldwide leader in water sports manufacturing, it is still wholly owned by the Cressi family

COMMITMENT

Whether they know it or not, customers are the real architects of the Cressi brand. All that the company does, from designing and to selling and servicing them, is driven by a commitment to meet the needs and expectations of the customer. This principle governs all of Cressi’s business relationships, from seeking the highest quality materials to demanding the highest standards of its retail partners.

PASSION

The Cressi brothers combined their passion for the sea with a passion for products and for the customers they served. It remains the core element of the company’s culture today. It is a passion fueled by Antonio Cressi using the same commitment to the sport shown by his father and uncle. Put simply, passion is at Cressi’s core because Cressi remains at the core of the sport.

EVOLUTION

Cressi’s long history of product innovations comes from a drive to continually improve. As the sport has evolved, so has Cressi, often serving as the catalyst for change. From designing new products to developing new manufacturing processes, Cressi draws on a wealth of technical expertise and creative knowledge from the past. At Cressi, every innovation is a step toward the future.

WE ARE FAMILY

THE BROTHERS EGIDIO AND NANNI

Egidio Cressi, born in 1902, was a Genoese banker who in the 1930s left his profession to follow his passion for the sea. With a group of friends, he began diving and fishing along the Ligurian coast, producing masks and spearguns in a small home workshop in Albaro. What started as a hobby soon expanded into a dedicated workshop in Corso Torino.
The company’s first activities date to 1938, but it was officially registered in 1944 as Egidio Cressi, later becoming “Il Pescatore Subacqueo Cressi” in 1946. In the early 1950s, with the entry of his brother Nanni, the company grew into a semi-industrial operation and introduced key innovations such as the Aro oxygen rebreather.
Those years marked a turning point for diving equipment: after early fins made from recycled tyres, Cressi patented the Rondine fin in 1951 and the Pinocchio mask in 1953, both destined to become icons.
In the 1970s, as interest in the sea grew worldwide, Antonio Cressi joined the company and later became its director.

LIGURIA

OUR LAND OUR SEA

It was to fish in the depths of Portofino and San Fruttuoso that, just before the Second World War, a group of friends thought of new equipment. Situated between the French border and Tuscany, Liguria is one of the smallest regions in Italy. The Italian riviera is reflected in the blue Mediterranean Sea, but is also surrounded by mountains that drop sheer into the sea. Vegetation forms the backdrop to some of the country’s most popular and well-known seaside resorts. The coasts are generally high, rocky, jagged, especially in the Riviera di Levante, while in the Ponente there is an almost perfect alternation between sheer cliffs and sandy beaches. It couldn’t be any other way, the strong passion for the sea finds its place in a unique setting with depths to explore.
“Portofino’s promontory is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. Its steep cliffs drop directly to 40 meters, making it ideal for safe scuba diving while staying close to shore. This is one of the reasons why scuba diving was born here.”

Antonio Cressi

HEADQUARTERS

in 1989, the company was enlarged, moving it to Via Adamoli, along the Bisagno valley in Genoa. And then came the electronics department. Since 2008 we have created a research and development department for this sector and so we produce directly the many control instruments that are now used during diving. With 150 employees and four foreign subsidiaries, Cressi is now the second brand on the Italian market and the fourth on the world market, with exports accounting for 80% of turnover.

"I am proud of never having outsourced production abroad."
Antonio Cressi

The brand and the manufacturing process remain firmly anchored in the place the company was founded. In an age when production is often out-sourced, Cressi’s offices and production facilities remain in Genoa, Italy. This strategic location has played a vital role in the company’s historical success and continues to provide it with an important advantage in the market today.