Armani's fine from Italy's competition authority was set at 5 million euros and cut to 3.5 for the supply-chain changes that closed a court administration early
Giorgio Armani S.p.A. and G.A. Operations were fined 3.5 million euros by Italy's competition authority in a decision dated 29 July 2025, for the distance between the group's published ethics and what the Carabinieri found in the workshops making its bags. The house shows on Sunday 27 September at Via Bergognone 59, and said in August 2025 it would appeal the decision. The case ran under the consumer code, not labour law: the offence is a misleading commercial practice, and what misled was the text. So the authority fixed the start of the offence on 22 April 2022, the day the Armani Values site launched, and the end on 18 February 2025, the day the Milan court lifted the judicial administration it had placed on G.A. Operations on 3 April 2024, a measure limited to its dealings with suppliers and closed before the twelve months were up. The decision sets the fine at 5 million euros, then reduces it to 3.5 million because, on the Milan court's papers, G.A. Operations worked through the administrator's plan and closed the procedure early. Those changes to its supply chain and controls, it says, partly reduce how misleading the ethics statements were; the statements themselves are unchanged. Both cases opened on 9 July 2024. Dior's ended in May 2025 with commitments the authority made binding: 2 million euros over five years, no tax relief claimed on it, and a report every 31 January for five years. Armani's ended with a fine, an order to stop, and a reporting deadline. Same investigation, same start date, two different documents at the end.