Esselunga: the control of the wife and daughter of Caprotti. Open the testament – LOOP.it

Bernardo Caprotti puts the fate of Esselunga in the hands of his wife and daughter Marina. This was his will, put in black and white in the testament. In the meantime, the holding Supermarkets Italian says stop the sale. Yesterday at 18 in the studio of the notary Carlo Marchetti has been open the last will and testament.

“about 70% of the shares representing the share capital of Supermarkets Italiani S. p.a A”, the controlling holding company of Esselunga, “has formed the subject of donation in life for the spouse, Giuliana Albera Caprotti, and daughter Marina Caprotti, in their joint”. The precise in a note Stefano Tronconi, executor of the will of Bernardo Caprotti. To the children of the first bed, Violet and Joseph, went the remaining 30% of the shares, to the extent of 15% to the head.

On the same day there was a meeting of the board of directors of Supermarkets Italian, the holding company that controls Esselunga, which has decided “not to give course to the state, the transactions relating to the subsidiary Esselunga”, an empire from 7,3 billion euro in sales and 290 million profit with a value in the order of 6 billion for which it had come to the proposed purchase by the funds, Blackstone and Cvc, for the screening of the advisor to Citigroup. The holding company also has co-opted and appointed as chairman Piergaetano Marchetti to the place of the founder, a figure of a guarantee as the president of the subsidiary, Esselunga, Vincenzo Mariconda. “We will do everything to safeguard the group” Esselunga is the only comment of Giuseppe Caprotti, the son of the entrepreneur brianza who died last Friday. To him, as to her sister Violet in addition to the participation of a minority in the Supermarkets, the Italians should be 22.5% at the head of the Villata, the company that owns part of the real estate assets of Esselunga. The remaining 50% goes to the wife and the third daughter. In the testament Caprotti has not forgotten the loyal secretary Melissa Nails, which in years past he had already made a donation millionaire, has left the half of his savings while the other half will go to the grandchildren, the three sons of Joseph and Andrea and Fabrizio, sons of Claudius, brother of the founder of Esselunga, his partner at the beginning of the entrepreneurial adventure in supermarkets.

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