

‘Michele, Stefano and Giorgio are the three directors and major shareholders.

‘Outline is a family-owned company and is in charge of its own destiny,’ Hinds asserts. Outline is now being steered by Giorgio Biffi and Guido Noselli’s sons, Michele and Stefano, Guido having passed away in 2006. Unsurprisingly, there is rather more to the story, but it’s a good summary of the company’s direction. Today, we operate in the top end of the market we make high-value, low-volume equipment, all manufactured in Italy.’ These were very successful, and that momentum carried us into being primarily a loudspeaker manufacturer. About the same time that this was happening, we were being approached by club owners in Italy to design loudspeakers. ‘When the hi-fi market changed, we had to diversify. Now providing loudspeaker systems for events on the scale of Peter Gabriel’s 2010 performance at the Verona Arena, the recent Glastonbury Festival and Milwaukee’s Summerfest (the world’s largest music festival), Outline’s roots can be traced back to 1973, and founders Guido Noselli and Giorgio Biffi.įrom modest roots, Outline has undertaken quite a journey: ‘We started out as an electronics company building FM tuners, little mixers and power amps primarily for the hi-fi market,’ EMEA Sales Director Chris Hinds says.
