In 1979 Mr. Giuseppe Battaglia founded the Shoes Company BICAP, after more than 30 years of experience in athletic shoes. In 1989, Mr. Battaglia’s 5 sons created the Shoes Company 5BI, a dynamic company active in athletic, trekking and football shoes production. In a short time the company became and industrial reality and began discovering new markets around the world and working in international business as a leader in safety shoes production with its registered brand BICAP. The company is strongly oriented in raw material selections and in innovation of technology by using the most modern industrial systems. All this allows to create a product based on a mix of experience and technology all MADE IN ITALY. The 5BI shoes factory covers a surface of 20.000 M2 in the industrial area of Barletta. Shoe production reaches 6.000 pairs per day for a total of 2 million pairs per year. Today the company continues its tradition thanks to the second and third generation’s management team.