La Pleiade

What La Pleiade does

La Pleiade is a Brescia-based B2B creative and marketing agency operating in Italy since 1983, formally incorporated as La Pleiade s.r.l. — Società Unipersonale. The firm delivers a full suite of visual communication services to structured enterprises, including brand identity (naming, logo, visual identity), offline advertising (catalogs, brochures, print campaigns), packaging design, professional photography (still life, industrial, food, fashion), 3D space design for trade show booths and commercial interiors, and digital communication (B2B web design, social network management, press campaigns). It serves manufacturing, wine and spirits, fashion, food and beverage, wellness, and hospitality clients across Italy, with operational concentration in Lombardy.

The business is built around a three-person core team: founder and art director Silvana Piana (40+ years in graphics and corporate image), designer Massimiliano Savoldi, and account and project manager Samantha Basile, who brings over a decade of experience from Italy's largest advertising company. The team delivers services directly to enterprise clients via a consultative, relationship-led sales model with custom project-based pricing; no standard pricing, API, software platform, or AI-driven tooling is disclosed.

Revenue is generated entirely through professional services fees on a project-by-project basis. The agency's distribution is single-country domestic, with no funding raised, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no partnerships, no certifications, and no publicly disclosed financial figures. Scale is constrained by team size: with three professionals, annual revenue is almost certainly sub-€1M, and the model relies on the founders' personal output rather than scalable leverage.

Name

La Pleiade

Legal name

La Pleiade s.r.l. - Società Unipersonale

Website

https://la-pleiade.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

La Pleiade is a Brescia, Italy-based B2B creative agency, founded in 1983, that provides brand identity, advertising, packaging, photography, space design, and web communication services to enterprise clients across Italian industrial, wine, fashion, and food verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Creative and Marketing Agency Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (54181), Graphic Design Services (541430), Commercial Photography (541922)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Creative Concepting & Campaign Development (BPAFAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Packaging & Brand Identity Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAN)

Keywords

• Brand identity design
• Product packaging design
• B2B website design
• Exhibition stand design
• Commercial photography services

Headquarters

HQ city

Brescia

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Marketing and Creativity Services: Professional services revenue from marketing agency services including brand identity development, advertising campaigns, packaging design, photography, space design (3D exhibition stands, showrooms, commercial spaces), and web communication/B2B websites.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

La Pleiade is a Brescia-based marketing and creativity agency that delivers end-to-end visual communication services to B2B clients, including brand identity creation and restyling, offline advertising materials (catalogs, brochures, print advertising), product packaging design, professional product and corporate photography, 3D space design for trade show stands and commercial spaces, communication strategy (web, social, press), and B2B website design and development.

Product overview

La Pleiade is a marketing and creativity agency based in Brescia, Italy, offering a comprehensive suite of visual communication services. The agency provides Brand Identity (naming, logo, visual identity), Advertising (catalogs, brochures, print advertising), Packaging (product packaging design, labels, POP materials), Fotografie (professional photography services for industrial, product, food, and fashion), Progettazione Spazi (3D space design for trade shows and commercial spaces), Comunicazione (web design, social media, press campaigns), and Siti Web B2B (B2B website development). These services work together to help businesses build and communicate their brand image across multiple channels, from 1983.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Brand Identity

Quantifiable outcome

• B2B websites designed to last and represent companies seeking recognition, choice and memorability

Named customers38 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Augeo Communications: Italian creative and branding agency offering brand identity, packaging, web, and communication services to B2B and consumer clients. Closely comparable to La Pleiade in service mix and mid-sized Italian enterprise target market.
• Achab Group: Italian B2B marketing and communication agency specializing in brand identity, advertising, and digital services for industrial and manufacturing clients. Particularly relevant as a direct competitor in the B2B industrial vertical that La Pleiade targets.
• Graphicamente: Italian graphic design and creative agency offering branding, packaging, advertising, and web design services. Closely matches La Pleiade's boutique full-service creative positioning in the Italian market.
• Area51 Creative Agency: Milan-based creative agency providing branding, packaging, web design, and integrated communication. Comparable boutique-scale competitor targeting Italian SMEs and mid-market companies with similar multi-disciplinary creative services.
• Openbox Agency: Italian creative studio specializing in branding, packaging, and design communication for B2B and consumer brands. Directly comparable in service offering (brand, packaging, web) and target market to La Pleiade.
• More Than Real: Italian creative agency providing branding, packaging, advertising, and digital communication services. Comparable mid-sized boutique with similar service portfolio targeting Italian brands.

Broad incumbents

• Armando Testa: One of Italy's largest independent creative advertising agencies, headquartered in Turin with offices across Italy. Operates in the same creative agency category as La Pleiade but at national scale across consumer and B2B accounts, representing the broad incumbent competitor set.
• DLV BBDO: Italian arm of the global BBDO network, headquartered in Milan. Offers full-service advertising, brand identity, and creative development for major Italian and international clients, overlapping directly with La Pleiade's brand identity and advertising services at a much larger scale.
• Publicis Italia: Milan-headquartered arm of the Publicis global network, offering full-service advertising, brand strategy, and creative production. Represents the large multinational agency competitor competing for the same Italian B2B enterprise marketing budgets.

Emerging players

• Mint List Creative: Italian digital-first creative agency focused on branding, web design, and social media for SMEs. Represents the emerging digital-native competitor set that overlaps with La Pleiade's communication services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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