The General Confederation of Italian Industry ( it, Confederazione generale dell'industria italiana), commonly known as Confindustria, is the

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and national

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, founded in 1910. It groups together more than 113,000 voluntary member companies, accounting for nearly 4,200,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members. It is a member of the

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(IOE). The President is Carlo Bonomi since 20 May 2020. Confindustria was a founding member of several organizations, including ISTUD (Istituto Studi Direzionali) and Assingegneria (an organization set up by Confindustria, which has since merged with OICE, L'ingegneria italiana organizzata - which in itself belongs to Confindustria). Members of Confindustria include ANIMA, Federation of the Italian Associations of Mechanical and Engineering Industries. It owns the prominent newspaper ''

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''. With local chapters all over Italy, it is popularly synonymous with Italian business.

Branches

These are the main branches of the Confindustria association: * Federcostruzioni * Federprogetti * ACIMAC * ACIMGA * AFI * AGIS. AIE * AIMPES * AISCAT * ANAV * ANDIL * ANEPLA * ANFAO * ANFIA * ANFIDA * ANICA * ANIGAS * ANITEC * APT * ASSAEROPORTI * ASSICA * ASSISTAL * ASSITOL * ASSOBETON * ASSOBIODIESEL * ASSOBIRRA * ASSOCARNI * AICA * ASSONCONSULT * ASSOELETTRICA * ASSOGAS * ASSOIMMOBILIARE * ASSOLOGISTICA * ASSOMET * ASSONAVE. ASSOTTICA * ASSTEL * CONFINDUSTRIA ANCMA * Confindustria Ceramica * Confindustria Intellect * Confindustria Radio Televisioni * Farmindustria * Federpesca * Federunacoma * FEM * FISE * ITALGROB * MINERACQUA * TESSILIVARI * UCIMU * UNIC * UNIVIDEO * ACIMALL * ACIMIT * AGENS * AIDEPI * AIIPA * AIOP * AITEC * ANCIT * ANEF * ANES * ANDIA * ANIASA * ANICAV * ANITA * ANPAM * ASSAEREO * ASSALZOO * ASSINFORM * ASSITERNMINAL * ASSIV * ASSOBIBE * ASSOBIOMEDICA * ASSOCALZATURIFICI Italiani * ASSOCARTA * ASSOCOMAPLAST * ASSOCONTROL * ASSOFOND * ASSOGRAFICI * ASSOLATTE * ASSOMAC * ASSOMINERARIA * ASSOSISTEMA * ASSOVETRO * CAGEMA * Confindustria CECED Italia * Confindustria Federorafi * Confindustria marmomacchine * Conditarma *

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* IGAS * ITALMOPA * OICE * UCIMA * UCINA * Unione Petrolifera.

Former Presidents

* Luigi Bonnefon (1910 – 1913) * Ferdinando Bocca (1913 – 1918) * Dante Ferraris (1918 – 1919) *

Giovanni Battista Pirelli Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

(1919) * Giovanni Silvestri (1919 – 1920) *

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(1920 – 1921) * Raimondo Targetti (1922 – 1923) *

Antonio Stefano Benni Antonio Stefano Benni (18 April 1880 – 27 December 1945) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician who served as President of the General Confederation of Italian Industry from 1923 until 1934. Biography His father, a financial intendant, die ...

(1923 – 1934) * Alberto Pirelli (1934) *

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(1934 – 1943) * Giovanni Balella (1943) * Giuseppe Mazzini (1943) * Fabio Friggeri (1944 – 1945) * Angelo Costa (1945 – 1955) * Alighiero De Micheli (1955 – 1961) * Furio Cicogna (1961 – 1966) * Angelo Costa (1966 – 1970) * Renato Lombardi (1970 – 1974) *

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(1974 – 1976) *

Guido Carli Guido Carli (28 March 1914 – 23 April 1993) was an Italian banker, economist and politician. His father was the prominent fascist sociologist Filippo Carli. Biography He was the son of Filippo Carli (1876–1938), a university professor of ...

(1976 – 1980) * Vittorio Merloni (1980 – 1984) * Luigi Lucchini (1984 – 1988) *

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(1988 – 1992) * Luigi Abete (1992 – 1996) * Giorgio Fossa (1996 – 2000) * Antonio D'Amato (2000 – 2004) *

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (; born 31 August 1947) is an Italian businessman, former Chairman of Ferrari, and formerly Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. and President of Confindustria and FIEG. He comes from an aristocratic family from the region of Piedmo ...

(2004 – 2008) * Emma Marcegaglia (2008 – 2012) * Giorgio Squinzi (2012 – 2016) * Vincenzo Boccia (2016 – 2020) * Carlo Bonomi (2020 – present)

References

External links

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Official site - English overview

Confindustria and the Party System in Italy
(PDF) {{Authority control Business organisations based in Italy 1910 establishments in Italy Rome Q. XXXII Europa

Branches

Former Presidents

See also

References

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