From a garage to a listed company.

Powersoft makes amplifiers for professional sound systems. Its 2018 annual report says it was “founded in 1995 by the two brothers Luca and Claudio Lastrucci and Antonio Peruch,” and is based in Scandicci, on the edge of Florence. The company’s website adds that it began in a small garage in Florence; we give that as its own story.

It grew steadily. The same report counts 71 employees in 2016, 83 in 2017 and 107 at the end of 2018. In December 2018 Powersoft completed a placement of shares on AIM Italia, Borsa Italiana’s market for smaller companies, now called Euronext Growth Milan; at the end of that year, at €3.60 a share, it was valued at about €39.2 million.

Its shareholder register today, as published on its investor-relations pages, shows Evolve S.r.l. holding 73.78 per cent, the market 20.85 per cent, Lorenzo Lepri 3.03 per cent and H.P. Sound Equipment 2.34 per cent. The register lists 12,847,275 shares; Lepri’s stake is held through Magico Investments, and H.P. Sound’s shares, received in the K-array deal, were subject to a lock-up from April 2025. The page does not say who owns Evolve, and we do not guess.

Ottocanali, X Series and M-Force.

Powersoft’s awards page records prizes for the M Series in 2012; the eight-channel Ottocanali installation amplifiers — the 1204 at the AV Awards in 2013, the 12K4 in 2014 and the DSP+D version, named InAVation’s audio product of the year, in 2016; the X Series touring amplifiers, with signal processing and Dante networking, in 2015; and the M-Force, a moving-magnet transducer, at the InstallAwards in 2015. Those are award years, not launch dates. An Italian trade magazine reported in 2017 that the Parc OL stadium in Lyon runs on Ottocanali amplifiers. Recent products include UNICA, NOTA, MM-FORCE and SPIXEL; Ottocanali no longer appears in the current range.

The company describes where it makes them. “Fostering Made In Italy, production is undertaken in plants at Scandicci (Florence), Bologna, Cortona, and Gorizia,” its website says, which also mentions “manufacturing partners around the world.” Its 2018 report described its own production lines together with selected suppliers “operating in Italy and abroad.” We therefore do not describe its products as made entirely in Italy.

It also has an American arm, Powersoft Advanced Technologies Corp., in Flanders, New Jersey, and its sales lean that way: in 2025 North America accounted for 44.2 per cent of revenue, Europe 36.9 per cent and Asia-Pacific 12.6 per cent.

The groups.

Italian professional audio has been consolidating into groups. RCF Group of Reggio Emilia, which also owns dBTechnologies, bought the American loudspeaker maker EAW and the Danish microphone maker DPA in 2018–19 and the Italian PA brand Montarbo in 2019; in 2019, according to Il Sole 24 Ore, it had about 700 staff, exported 87 per cent of its sales and planned a stock-market listing it later withdrew.

A second cluster has formed around Florence. The amplifier maker Powersoft of Scandicci, listed in Milan since December 2018, bought 51 per cent of the loudspeaker maker K-array of Scarperia in 2025, on an enterprise value of €50 million, with the deal announcement stressing the two companies’ “territorial proximity.” Nearby, the listed transducer maker B&C Speakers, founded in Florence in 1946, reported revenue of €100.4 million in 2024 and has bought Eighteen Sound of Reggio Emilia and Eminence of Kentucky, according to Italian Wikipedia.

The groups reach well beyond Italy. RCF Group’s EAW is American and DPA Danish; Powersoft has a subsidiary in New Jersey and earned 44.2 per cent of its 2025 revenue in North America; and B&C Speakers, listed in Milan since 2007, bought Eminence Speaker of Kentucky in September 2023 and its operations in Dongguan, China, that December, according to Italian Wikipedia.

Ownership has moved between these firms as well as into them. Montarbo, the Bologna PA maker, was controlled by Eko Music Group of Montelupone, in the Marche, by 2012, and passed to RCF Group’s AEB Industriale in January 2020. FBT of Recanati, founded in 1963, is controlled by a holding company that bears the name of Vinicio Tanoni, and Proel of the Abruzzo was founded in 1991 by Fabrizio Sorbi, who started with cables. Each company describes where its products are designed and made in its own words, and the guides below quote them.

Powersoft is the buyer in the second of those groups: an amplifier maker that took control of a neighbouring loudspeaker brand.

“Human Audio Experience.”

In 2025 Powersoft bought 51 per cent of K-array, the loudspeaker maker of Scarperia, from its holding company, H.P. Sound Equipment, for about €22.3 million, on an enterprise value of €50 million for the whole; the deal, signed in February and closed on 1 April, included options on the remaining 49 per cent and half of K-Array USA. Powersoft paid about €8.4 million in cash, funded by a UniCredit loan, about €5.0 million in 300,000 new Powersoft shares — roughly 2.4 per cent of the company — and about €8.9 million in four annual instalments. With nine months of K-array included, its 2025 revenue rose 30.4 per cent to €94.4 million, with adjusted EBITDA of €27.0 million and net profit of €9.9 million; 2024 revenue had been €72.4 million. The company ended 2025 with net debt of €38.3 million and proposed a dividend of €0.78 a share; first-half revenue in 2026 rose 12.6 per cent to €46.3 million. We found no current headcount in its 2025 results.

The company says it holds dozens of patents, which we give as its claim; its share capital is €1,345,264.40. Its tagline, used across its website, is “Human Audio Experience.” We could not extract its brand colours or typefaces from its website, so the palette here is our own.

For a design guide, Powersoft shows an engineering brand that grew by acquisition. Compare K-array, which it now controls, and RCF, the centre of Italy’s other pro-audio group. For this guide we use a deep blue and an orange with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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