Alberto Palatchi (born 1949/1950) is a Spanish

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman, and the former owner of the wedding dress company

Pronovias Pronovias is a wedding dress design business based in Catalonia, Spain. BC Partners acquired a 90 percent stake in the firm in 2017 for 550 million Euros. In 2018, Amandine Ohayon took over from d'Andrés Tejero as the company's CEO. Manuel Mota ...

Career

In 1964, Palatchi inherited a store from his parents. He grew the business into Pronovias, one of the largest wedding dress companies in the world. In October 2017, Palatchi sold 90% of wedding dress company Pronovias, founded by his father in 1922, to British private equity firm

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, for an estimated US$550–655 million. As of March 2018, ''

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'' estimated his net worth at US$1.1 billion.

Personal life

He was married to Susana Gallardo, who is now married to

Manuel Valls Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (, , ; born 13 August 1962) is a French-Spanish politician who has served as a Barcelona city councillor from 2019 to 2021. He served as Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016 under president François Hol ...

. According to ''

'' he is "separated", with three children, and lives in Madrid, Spain.

References

Living people Spanish billionaires Year of birth missing (living people) Businesspeople from Madrid {{Spain-business-bio-stub