In addition to the main company the group also contains Lamital[1] and Lamifer,[2] as well as a Portuguese subsidiary called Lampre Portugal.
After two seasons in which Lampre was main sponsor of the team driven by Giuseppe Saronni, the Galbusera family decided to amalgamate with other sponsors in order to follow the UCI ProTour project: from the union between the Lampre group and the Saeco group was born team Lampre–Caffita, with champions such as Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni.
Daikin remained a co-sponsor until the end of 2002 at the height of Lance Armstrong's zenith, when Raimondas Rumšas's wife was caught during the Tour de France with performance-enhancing drugs in the front seat of her car.
[3] At the end of 2004, Lampre merged with Saeco to form a new cycling team ready for the UCI ProTour.
Lampre merged with Saeco at the end of the 2004 season to create a new team ready for the UCI ProTour.