- Vittorio Merloni
Vittorio Merloni (Fabriano, born
30 April 1933 ) is an Italianbusinessman andindustrialist . He is thechairman ofIndesit Company , a multinationalwhite goods producer based in theMarche region of Italy, and of Fineldo, the Italian holding company that controls Gruppo Merloni.Biography
Vittorio Merloni has a degree in economics and commerce (from the
University of Perugia ). He is married to Franca Carloni and has four children: Maria Paola, Andrea, Antonella and Aristide.In
1960 he started work in the family business and in1975 he became chairman of the newly formed Merloni Elettrodomestici (renamed Indesit Company in 2005).In
1980 he became president ofConfindustria , a post he held for four years. In1984 , the year he was made a “Cavaliere del lavoro”, he was elected president of Centromarca, an Italian brand association, a post he held till1988 .In
2001 he began a four-year presidency of Assonime, an Italian association of public limited companies. In the same year he received an honorary degree in engineering from thePolitecnico di Milano . Since then he has received various awards and acknowledgements: in 2003, two years after Indesit Company took overHotpoint , a UK brand, he was made aCommander of theBritish Empire .In
2004 he received the Leonardo Award forInternationalization and in2005 the GEI Prize inNew York .He was a director of
Telecom Italia from2006 to2007 .External links
* [http://www.indesitcompany.com Indesit Company's institutional site]
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