Grabo’s managing director Jonathan Grassi spoke to PartyWorldwide.net about how the Italian balloon company has dealt with the recent Covid-19 challenges and how it expects to navigate the ongoing situation in the future.
“We did close our doors for a few weeks, but ensured that we remained close to all the members of the Grabo world during this difficult time, offering financial support as well as sharing thoughts, concerns and hopes.
Our first concern was to make sure health and safety requirements were followed, guaranteeing maximum safety to everyone who returned to work once restrictions were lifted. Sanitary equipment is guaranteed, safety distances, isolated environments, extra personnel to guarantee constant disinfection… There is no way to annihilate the virus, but we have done our best to limit its virulence.
We invited retailers and decorators to share their issues and worries with us. Combatting a virus is hard, combatting an invisible, microscopical monster is tragic: sharing these words has been a gift to the soul.
Many of these concerns were focusing on the lower number of parties we may see worldwide. That could be true. But we know that people will always want to have a good time. And even if things may be a little slower now – and it honestly isn’t the case – they will eventually pick up, because that is what happens in a post-traumatic event.
So now, where to go? That is the real question. We all have put our plans on hold, but we may have to reconfigure our life from scratch – and it isn’t to say for the worse. As Winston Churchill said: it is the courage to continue that counts. And we will continue.”
