Alberta Ferreti together with her brother Massimo,co-founded Aeffe S.p.A. [it], a publicly traded clothing manufacturer and distributor based in San Giovanni in Marignano, in 1976. From 1994, Ferretti extended the breadth of her company outside of Italy beginning with the acquisition of a building at 30 West 56th Street in New York City. She also started Aeffe U.S.A., which produced and distributed clothing by Moschino, Rifat Ozbek, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Narcisco Rodriguez. The locale also became the hub for marketing her own collections. From 2000 to 2006, Sanpaolo IMI – through Nuova Holding Subalpina – held a 20 percent share in Aeffe; it had purchased that share for $44.5 million. In the early 2000s, Aeffe held a 50 percent stake in the Narciso Rodriguez fashion house.[