Canepa & Campi was founded in 1901. Corporate and production headquarters are in Genoa, but there are several periferal depots in Bari, Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Milan, Ravenna, Trieste and Venice in Italy, in addition to Palafugell (Spain), Saint-Petersburg (Russia), and Odessa (Ucraine). The main activity of the Company consists in the production of life-jackets, life rafts, life preservers, sail products, and all kinds of sea rescue and life-saving equipments, like self-inflating rafts, rescue boats, rescue signals, food and water emergency rations, projectors and lamps, electrical torchs for special use, and flags of any kind and dimension, for military and naval use.