C&B Italia and B&B Italia, is it same manufacturer?  

B&B came out in Italy in ...
B&B came out in Italy in 63 and the USA stores opened up in 66 i don't know about the other one, They dod have great pop stuff and always did.

C&B + B&B
Are the same company.
Founded in 1966 when Piero Ambrogio Busnelli went into business with Cesare Cassina, an owner of Cassina, one of Italy's best-known furniture companies. The new venture, C&B Italia, was so successful -- with a plant one magazine called the most highly automated furniture factory in the world -- that it began to provide uncomfortable competition for Cassina, which offered to buy Busnelli out. He refused, bought out Cassina instead in 1973 and changed the company's name to B&B.
An interesting story:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE0D81F3EF93BA15753C1A...

french article on C&B and B&B history
interesting...
http://www.lexpress.fr/mag/tentations/dossier/design/dossier.asp?ida=456035

love the article but i do ...
love the article but i do not read or speak French

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the_beloved
thanks for the tip on bablefish i read the article in the english translation , amazing how it does loose a few things in translation
i bet that is cause they translate every word for word as it is in the native language , and it looses the meaning some where down the pike,