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Agnelli
Agnelli () is an Italian surname literally meaning "lambs". Notable people with the surname include: *Members of the Agnelli family, the industrial and business family of northern Italy, including: ** Edoardo Agnelli (1831–1871), Italian entrepreneur and politician, father of Giovanni (1866–1945) ** Aniceta Agnelli (1846–1920), born Aniceta Frisetti, wife of Edoardo Agnelli (1831–1871) *** Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), Italian manufacturer and co-founder of Fiat S.p.A. in 1899 and the company's chief from 1900 to 1945 ***Clara Agnelli (1869–1946), born Clara Boselli, wife of Giovanni (1866–1945) **** Edoardo Agnelli (1892–1935), Italian industrialist, son of Giovanni **** Virginia Agnelli (1899–1945) born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte, Italian princess, wife of Edoardo (1892–1935) ***** Clara Agnelli (1920-2016), mother of Prince Egon von Fürstenberg and Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, eldest daughter of Edoardo (1892–1935) *****Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Agnelli
Andrea Agnelli (; born 6 December 1975) is an Italian businessman. From May 2010 to November 2022, Agnelli served as chairman of Italian association football club Juventus, which returned to Italian football dominance throughout the 2010s with nine consecutive record-breaking Serie A titles, along with four consecutive national doubles and one domestic treble. Under Agnelli's presidency, Juventus also returned to European competitiveness, reaching one UEFA Europa League semi-final and two UEFA Champions League finals. In November 2022, he resigned his positions, amid the '' Plusvalenze'' investigation. A member of the industrialist Agnelli family, he was a board member of Exor and Stellantis. Appointed to the UEFA Executive Committee in 2015, Agnelli served as executive member and chairman of the European Club Association from 2017 to 2021, when he resigned to join the European Super League project. Early life and family Born in 1975, Agnelli is the son of late Juventus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Alberto Agnelli
Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (19 April 1964 – 13 December 1997), colloquially known as Giovannino Agnelli, was an Italian businessman and member of the Agnelli family, an Italian industrial dynasty associated with Fiat S.p.A. Agnelli's father was politician and industrialist Umberto Agnelli; his uncle was Fiat head Gianni Agnelli. Prior to his 1997 death at age 33, he was the heir apparent and designated future chairman of the Fiat Group. Agnelli's reputation among the Italian public was comparable to that of John F. Kennedy Jr. in the United States; in the words of Alan Friedman, he was "rich, strikingly handsome, always smiling and the leading voice of his generation." Early life Giovanni Alberto Agnelli was born on 19 April 1964, in Milan, Italy, to Umberto Agnelli and . Both sides of his family were associated with the motor vehicle industry; his paternal great–grandfather was Giovanni Agnelli, founder of Fiat, while his mother's stepfather was Enrico Piaggio, son of Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Agnelli
Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi (24 April 1922 – 15 May 2009), was an Italian politician, businesswoman, and writer. Involved in Italian politics for over twenty years, she was the first woman to be appointed Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was also the first Italian minister to be Minister of Foreign Affairs and undersecretary of the same ministry. Early life Agnelli was born in Turin, the daughter of Edoardo Agnelli and ''Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte, a daughter of the Prince of San Faustino and his Kentucky-born wife Jane Allen Campbell. Her grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli, founded Fiat S.p.A. She is the sister of Gianni Agnelli, who was the head of Fiat until 1996; members of the Agnelli family are still the controlling shareholders of the company. Affectionally called Suni, her British governess used to tell her: "Never forget you are an Agnelli." During World War II, Agnelli worked at times as a nurse for the Red Cross, and when transport became uno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnelli Family
The Agnelli family () is an Italian multi-industry business dynasty family founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders of the Fiat motor company which became Italy's largest automobile manufacturer. They are also primarily known for other activities in the automotive industry by investing in Ferrari (1969), Lancia (1969), Alfa Romeo (1986) and Chrysler, the latter acquired by Fiat after it filed for bankruptcy in 2009. The Agnelli family is also known for managing, since 1923, and being majority investors of the conational Serie A football club Juventus FC since the club's conversion to a ''società a responsabilità limitata'' (similar to a limited liability company) in 1949,Subscribed with code nº 214687, cf. as well as being the first shareholders of Sisport. Most members of the family are stakeholders in privately owned Giovanni Agnelli B.V., which in turn has a controlling stake in the publicly listed holding company Exor. The family has sometimes been desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elkann
John Philip Jacob Elkann (born 1 April 1976) is an American-born Italian industrialist. In 1997, he became the chosen heir of his maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, following the death of Gianni's nephew Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, and since 2004 has been leading the Agnelli family, an Italian multi-industry business dynasty. The family has been compared to the U.S. political family of the Kennedys. Elkann chairs the automaker Stellantis and is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Exor, the holding company controlled by the Agnelli family, which also holds a controlling stake in Ferrari, CNH Industrial, Iveco Group, Juventus FC, and The Economist Group. In July 2018, he was appointed chairman of Ferrari after Sergio Marchionne left due to health issues. In 2021, Elkann oversaw the merger between Fiat Chrysler and the PSA Group. He is the leader of a group that controls 14 brands, with production sites in 29 countries, employs 400,000 people, and is present in over 130 ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristian Agnelli
Cristian Antonio Agnelli (born 23 September 1985) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Career Club career Agnelli began his professional career with hometown club Foggia, making his debut in May 2002. He signed for Lecce in January 2003 and spent loan spells at Verona, Catanzaro, Juve Stabia, Salernitana and Benevento. Agnelli was released from his contract with Lecce in January 2010, six months early. He consequently returned to Foggia on 6-month contract. On 7 August 2010, Agnelli signed a 1-year contract with Barletta. On 28 August 2012, he re-joined Foggia again. On 12 September 2019, he signed with Pergolettese. On 1 September 2021, he moved to Audace Cerignola. International career Agnelli participated at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship The 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship was the 15th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It took place in the Netherlands between 10 June and 2 July 2005. Venues Qualification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnelli & Nelson
Agnelli & Nelson are the collective name of Northern Irish music producers Christoper James Agnew and Robert Frederick Nelson, writers and producers of electronic dance music who have worked in the genre of trance from 1997. They also produced music under the names Afterburn, Cortez, Green Atlas, Quincey & Sonance and The A&N Project. Biography Agnew and Nelson have written and produced dance music, including their hits "El Nino" and "Everyday". They have to date produced five Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom, and countless remixes, from Armin van Buuren to U2. The pair have collaborated with other major artists, including Matt Darey, Jon the Dentist, Scott Bond, Solarstone, and Chicane. They have also appeared on BBC Radio 1 six times. They produced music for Xtravaganza, and labels such as Tsunami Records and ID&T. Their remix of John O'Callaghan's "Big Sky" was voted the number one trance production on A State of Trance in 2007, the radio show hosted by Armin Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juventus FC
Juventus Football Club (; from , ), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Turin, Piedmont, who compete in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in 1897 by a group of Turinese students, the club played in different grounds around the city, and plays now in Juventus Stadium. Nicknamed ("the Old Lady"), it has won 36 official List of Italian football champions, league titles, 15 Coppa Italia trophies and nine Supercoppa Italiana, Italian Super Cups, being the record holder for all these competitions; they also hold two Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004), Intercontinental Cups, two UEFA Champions League, European Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Europa League, UEFA Cups (Italian record), two UEFA Super Cups and one UEFA Intertoto Cup (Italian record). Consequently, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piaggio
Piaggio Group () is an Italian motor vehicle manufacturer, which produces a range of two-wheeled motor vehicles and compact commercial vehicles under five brands: Piaggio, Vespa, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi and Derbi. Its corporate headquarters are located in Pontedera, Italy. The company was founded by Rinaldo Piaggio in 1884, initially producing locomotives and railway carriages. Piaggio Group's subsidiaries employ a total of 7,053 employees and produced a total of 519,700 vehicles in 2014. The manufacturer has six research-and-development centres and operates in over 50 countries. History In 1882, Enrico Piaggio purchased land in Sestri Ponente (Genoa) to set up a timber yard. Two years later, in 1884, his 20-year-old son, Rinaldo Piaggio (1864–1938), founded Piaggio & C. The company initially built locomotives and railway carriages. In 1917, towards the end of World War I, Rinaldo Piaggio turned to the military sector: The company started to produce MAS anti-submarine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Agnelli
Umberto Agnelli (; 1 November 1934 – 27 May 2004) was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia (born '' Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli. Agnelli served as a CEO of Italian carmaker Fiat from 1970 to 1976. After the death of his brother, he was briefly chairman of the Fiat Group until his death, aged 69, in 2004. He was also chairman and later honorary chairman of Juventus, the football team long-associated with Fiat and the Agnelli family, and was for a time the president of the Italian Football Federation. He was a Christian Democracy member of the Senate of the Republic from 1976 to 1979. In 2015, he was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame. Early life Agnelli was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 1 November 1934, as the youngest of seven children. After the premature deaths of his parents, Edoardo Agnelli and Virginia Bourbon del Monte in two un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Agnelli
Giorgio Agnelli (29 November 1929 – 2 April 1965) was a member of the Agnelli family. Early life and family Born in Turin, Agnelli was the second son and sixth child of Virginia Agnelli (born '' Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and of the industrialist Edoardo Agnelli. Until 1996, his older brother Gianni Agnelli was the head of Fiat S.p.A., which was founded by Giovanni Agnelli. He studied at Harvard University in the United States. Unlike the other members of the family, he could not participate in industrial and financial activities due to a serious illness. Considered a family rebel along with Edoardo Agnelli, the eldest child and only son of Gianni and Marella Agnelli who also did not participate in the family business and died by suicide at the age of 46, he was described as caring about his family and suffered from being marginalized. Death Agnelli died at age 35 in a Swiss clinic in Prangins at Lake Geneva, where he had been treated for a long time. According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristiana Agnelli
Cristiana Brandolini d'Adda, Contessa di Valmareno ( Agnelli; born 16 February 1927), is an Italian socialite and member of the Agnelli family. Early life and family Cristiana Agnelli was born on 16 February 1927 in Turin. Her father was Edoardo Agnelli, an industrialist, and her mother was ''Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte, a noblewoman. Her paternal grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli, founded Fiat S.p.A. Her maternal grandfather was Carlo del Monte, Prince of San Faustino. She was the fifth of seven children. Her sisters were Princess Clara von Fürstenberg, Countess Susanna Rattazzi, and Countess Maria Sole. Her brothers were Gianni Agnelli, Giorgio Agnelli, and Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli's father died in a plane crash when she was eight years old and her mother died in a car accident when she was eighteen years old. Her paternal granddaughter is Coco Brandolini d'Adda, whose mother was the ambassador of the Valentino style in the world and whose sister Bianca Brandolini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
