Luigi Cremonini (born 1939) is an Italian

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. He is the chairman of Cremonini SpA and Inalca SpA, and the honorary president of the Chamber of Commerce ItalAfrica Centrale.

Early life

Cremonini was born in 1939, into a poor farming family near

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

, Italy. He studied farming in Bologna. In May 1994, the University of Bologna awarded him the honorary degree in veterinary medicine.

Career

In 1963, Cremonini opened, with his brother Giuseppe a small butcher's shop, the start of the pan-European Cremonini Group, with an annual turnover of meat products of $3.6 billion, and Marr, Italy's largest food-service distributor.

Personal life

Cremonini is married, with four children, and lives in

, Italy. In 1985, he was awarded the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...

by the Queen Beatrix and appointed Cavalier of Labour by the President

Alessandro Pertini Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini (; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985. Early life Born in Stella ( Province of Savona) as the son of a wealthy landow ...

. In October 2009, Cremonini was presented with an "Italy in the World 2009" award at the Italian Embassy in Moscow.

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