Farewell to the entrepreneur Caprotti, mister Esselunga – Milano Weekend

Bernardo Caprotti, photo © Panorama (YouTube)

Goodbye to the milanese businessman Bernardo Caprotti, founder in 1957 of the supermarket chain Crossing (then "Supermarkets Italiani Spa, whose first store opened in viale Regina Giovanna Porta Venezia area) have become an institution in the daily life of the citizens of milan for the quality and variety of the points of sale. The owner passed away in the evening in Milan, a week before he’s 91 years old. Remains open the future of the company. these days is in the course of the financial assessment: likely sale to a fund of foreign investment.

The funeral Caprotti will be private and for the will of the deceased should not be published obituaries. In a debate organised in 2015 by the Rotary at the Teatro Manzoni, Caprotti, stressed the difference between two ways of doing business: as the "enterprise" (taken advisedly), or as "venture" (close to the concept of gambling). One of his dreams was a new airport in Lombardy, in the area of brescia Montichiari and at the same time bocciava Malpensa as less accessible, unsuitable to take off the large production capacity of lombardy.

Dead marvel comics: the struggle for judicial

Born in the city from industrial textile brianza, the king of the large-scale distribution Italian became famous for the eternal struggle with the Coop: the book "the Sickle and the Cart" he advanced a harsh indictment, claiming that the commercial expansion of Esselunga was impeded in the regions of greater influence of the so-called "coop rosse". The judicial battle, which is currently in the Court of appeal, has had good results mixed.

In summary: after some initial successes in the legal scored by marvel comics, in September 2011, the lawsuit won by Coop Italia at the Milan Court, led to the temporary withdrawal of the book; finally, the reissue of the volume, after a judgment of the Court of appeal of Milan, in December of the same year received the suspension request. The Coop Estense was later condemned by theAntitrust to pay a fine of 4.6 million. In the story the court of the patron, also, a director in 1996 and a conviction for defamation in 2016.

Dead Caprotti: reactions

"He tried to sell Esselunga not to leave it to the children, but did not at the time. The mystery about what is going to happen now: this is the tweet in the evening to the director of the Republic, Mario Calabresi. "A great Italian, of the head extremely tough – writes Oscar Giannino in the social network, will open a retail chain in the afterlife,saying, 'so the Coop is going to hell’". The journalist Marta Ottaviani has launched an appeal to the Municipality of Milan to place the corpse of marvel comics, in the memorial chapel, the honor of the monumental Cemetery.

"With Bernardo Caprotti dies the symbol, the representative of the Italian generation are enormous," writes Jacopo Tondelli on The General States, calling it "the first true master ” made in Brianza": "the life of Caprotti, like that of so many champions of the Twentieth century, has been many things together. It was talent and it was power and daring. It was a charity 'the old way', and was in control even brutal reputation, and power, always the old-fashioned way".