Leonardo del vecchio biography of barack
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MILAN- The founder and owner of the Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica, Leonardo Del Vecchio has passed away after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia.
Del Vecchio, who was born in Milan in 1935, was one of the most influential Italian businessmen in recent times.
His eyewear conglomerate, founded in 1961 in Agordo, has a workforce of over 180,000 employees and during its time acquired the likes of Oakley and Ray-Ban.
At the time of his death, he was the second richest man in Italy and the 62nd richest in the world.
He is survived by his six children and his wife Nicoletta Zampillo.
The EU Commissioner for the economy Paolo Gentiloni said that “Leonardo Del Vecchio was a great Italian. His story from being an orphan to managing an economic giant seems like a story from a different era but he is an example for now and the future.”
Luca Zaia, the president of the Veneto region said that “I often say that only pessimists do not make fortunes and I think
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Leonardo Del Vecchio, Italian billionaire and founder of Luxottica, dies at 87
A billionaire who started from nothing, he built an eyewear empire that absorbed brands such as Essilor and Ray-Ban. This discreet and elegant man, with little inclination for compromise in business, died on June 27.
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It all started with a square building off the beaten track in a valley in the heart of the Dolomites, a few kilometers from the town of Agordo (Veneto). It was here, in the early 1960s, that a young entrepreneur named Leonardo Del Vecchio set up shop, beginning an unparalleled industrial venture that would make him the founder of the Luxottica Group (a manufacturer of eyeglass frames) and soon one of the richest men in the world.
Sixty years later, the pavilion has not changed. Del Vecchio wanted to preserve it as material proof of how far he had come. But it now looks very small next to the gigantic industrial complex (with almost 4,500 employees) t
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Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica, died
Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder of Luxottica and executive president of EssilorLuxottica, world leader in the production and marketing of eyewear and lenses, has died. He had turned 87 on May 22 last. The company - reads a note from EssilorLuxottica - expresses its deepest condolences to the family and to the entire community of employees around the world for this enormous loss. The board will meet to determine the next steps.
Born in Milan in 1935 to emigrants from region i italien, fatherless since birth, at the age of seven Del Vecchio was entrusted to the institute of the Martinitt by his mother. After the first experiences in the factory, in 1961 he moved to Agordo (Belluno), where he founded Luxottica, initially a subcontractor laboratory of parts for glasses, which became in 2018, after the merger with the French Essilor, the world's largest manufacturer and seller of lenses and glasses. The holding now has around 80 employees and ov