Benetton, Alessandro leave disagree – The Republic

MILAN - Alessandro Benetton resigned from the Board of Directors of the Benetton Group, where he had been executive chairman since 2013. The news, anticipated by Tribuna di Treviso and subsequently confirmed by the company, was in the air for a long time. The resignation, according to what adds the’Ansa, would be given by Alessandro already a month ago in the course of a board of directors.

In the next Bod will be appointed the successor indicated by the shareholder Edition (the holding company of the Benetton family), and will almost certainly be an outsider to the family. Within the empire founded by the four brothers Benetton (Luciano, Gilberto, Carlo and Giuliana), Alexander, son of Luciano, which will keep the seats of councilor on the board of directors of the Edition and on the board of directors of Autogrill.

The origin of the decision of the entrepreneur in his fifties, there would be the non-sharing about the future plans of the company of Ponzano Veneto. Alessandro, would be in fact contrary to the restructuring of the company and in favour of a relaunch of the historical brand of which the father was the creative mind. It is a further blow to the balance historians of the family have already put to the test after the division in three parts of the company, dividing it between the industrial (Atlantia, which controls Autostrade per l’italia and Aeroporti di Roma), the real estate and the retail (with the Benetton Group and Autogrill), but all belonging to Edizione srl, wholly owned by the Benetton family.

Alexander, master of Boston in Business Administration and a master Harvad, has founded its holding on the “21 Investimenti”, and, according to some, you would have to share the same vision of his uncle Gilberto (the other “man of the accounts”, as he called himself) on the future of the group. In reality, the empire of Ponzano going to an epoch with a complex step towards an increasingly managerial. In 2017, in fact, driving the safe family arrive, Marco Patuano, as chief executive officer, and Fabio Cerchiai, the current number one of Atlantia, as president, taking the place of Gilberto.

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