This figure of Italian capitalism was the architect of the EssilorLuxottica merger, the world leader in optics.
He was an extraordinary boss, a baron of Italian capitalism. Leonardo Del Vecchio, president of EssilorLuxottica, died Monday in Milan, at the age of 87. The tireless businessman, who had been hospitalized for several weeks following pneumonia, has given up. The career of Del Vecchio, who founded Luxottica in 1961, has been unanimously praised. “Del Vecchio was a great Italian”, reacted Mario Draghi, the head of government. “His story, from orphanage to running a business empire, seems to be from another time, reacted on Twitter the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni. But it is an example for today and tomorrow. »
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Exceptional, this man, with a fine silhouette and a tanned complexion, was first of all by his story, that of a self-made man born into a poor family, who became the second fortune of Italy. “I was born without a father, confided in 2019 to Figaro this son of a greengrocer. My mother, destitute, gave me…
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