The control of Esselunga, his wife and the daughter of marvel comics – The Tyrrhenian sea

MILAN. 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.

At 18 yesterday, in the studio of the notary Carlo Marchetti, was opened the testament. The "legitimate" reserve 25% of the inheritance to his wife, Giuliana, Albera, and 50% to the children of the first bed Joseph, Violet and Marina (16,66%). The remaining 25 percent which could have divided it between Juliana and Marina, so that the two women will have 66.7% of the share capital.

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 in 2015, 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 employees of the company amounted to approximately 22 thousand units for 152 points of sale concentrated in the North and Center of Italy.

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.

The choices for hereditary carried out by Bernardo Caprotti “give continuity and stability to the group.” It is what we learn

sources familiar with the matter. The choice of Bernardo Caprotti to leave the control of the management, both ordinary and extraordinary, of the company, in addition to ensuring the continuity and stability will allow, again, they underline the sources, “open a new phase of development for Esselunga”.