Borletti

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Borletti is an Italian group of companies owned by the family of the same name. This has a stake in the Italian group La Rinascente . Vehicle parts were produced under the name Veglia Borletti , but this division is now part of the Fiat subsidiary Magneti Marelli .

Borletti family

The Borletti family is a traditional entrepreneur family in Milan . The brothers Senatore Borletti and Romualdo Borletti became famous as early as the 19th century, among other things as owners of a factory that produced alarm clocks . During the First World War , the factory benefited from switching to hand grenade production . In addition, the family was involved in the publishing industry, editor of several magazines and newspapers, including the Italian daily Il Secolo (1866-1927) published in Milan . Other commitments of the Borletti family related to textile manufacturing, chemical companies, insurance, advertising agencies and automobile manufacturing.

From 1926 to 1928 Senatore Borletti was the owner and ninth president of the Inter Milan football club . Together with Piero Pirelli , Edoardo Agnelli and Renato Sacerdoti , Borletti promoted contact between industry, advertising and football. For decades, Borletti was the main sponsor of the famous Milanese basketball club Olimpia Milano (then Borletti Milano).

The Borlettis are related to the founding family of the French silver cutlery manufacturer Christofle (Carla Borletti married the owner at the time in 1928) and from 1930 were at times its majority owner. The Standa retail chain , founded in 1931 by the Monzino family, was also established with financial support from the Borlettis. The current head of the family is Maurizio Borletti . Maurizio Borletti was head of Christofle from 1993 to around 2005.

Companies

Super automatic sewing machine model 1102 designed by Marco Zanuso for Borletti (Compasso d'oro price). Photo by Paolo Monti , 1956.

The Borletti family is now involved in:

  • La Rinascente and its subsidiary UPIM : La Rinascente is an Italian luxury department store chain. It was founded by Federico Bocconi in 1865 and was the first department store in Rome in 1887. In 1917 it was bought by the brothers Senatore Borletti and Romualdo Borletti. In 1969, the Rinascente group, together with its subsidiary UPIM (150 own branches and 200 franchised houses), was bought by the Agnelli family , owners of the Fiat group. In 1997, the Luxembourg company Eurofind, behind which the trading group Auchan of the French Mulliez family and the investment arm IFIL of the Agnelli family stood, became the majority shareholder of La Rinascente for EUR 888 million in cash; In 2002 the company was completely bought up and taken off the stock exchange . In May 2005 UPIM was separated from La Rinascente and both were sold to the Tamerice investor group, which included the Maurizio Borletti family and other investors. Today the Rinascente Group includes a concept store and 13 other stores in central locations in larger Italian cities. Further openings are imminent, including the group’s largest in Rome. Clothing for young people is offeredin twostoresunder the subsidiary brand Jam . The Rinacente Group achieves an annual turnover of around 400 million euros, half of which is in the previous main building at Milan Cathedral.
  • Karstadt real estate: In 2007 the Highstreet consortium(consisting of Borletti, RREEF , Pirelli RE , Goldman Sachs and Generali ) took a 49% stake in the Karstadt real estate of the German department store group Arcandor . Borletti offered Arcandor a cross-shareholding in the Karstadt premium stores (including KaDeWe in Berlin, Alsterhaus in Hamburg and Oberpollinger in Munich), but this did not materialize. As of June 2009, 85% of Karstadt's properties belong to this consortium. In the wake of Arcandor's bankruptcy in June 2009, Borletti again expressed interest in taking over the most profitable houses. At the end of July 2010, after the bidding period had expired, Borletti submitted a purchase bid for Karstadt. This wascriticizedby Karstadt insolvency administrator Görg as "without substance" and rejected.

literature

  • La societa Fratelli Borletti per i suoi dipendenti . Milano 1955, (album).
  • Giovanna Gulli, Tommaso Lana: Le lavoratrici ei lavoratori della Borletti. Storie di vita e di lotta, 1940–1963 . Presentazione di Susanna Camusso. Ediesse, Roma 2005, ISBN 88-230-1032-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Il Secolo (quotidiano) in the Italian language Wikipedia. On March 30, 1927, they sold the entire company to the daily newspaper "La Sera"
  2. ↑ # 93; = 75 & cHash = 4d1b0d4738b58a1c652599271dff4f6a Borletti's papers are not ready for signature . ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. goerg.de, August 31, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goerg.de