Gabriello Cecchi
Gabriello Cecchi | |
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Sir Gabriello Cecchi in 1939 | |
| Born | c. 1914 Ponte Buggianese, Pistoia, Italy |
| Died | 2000 Torino, Italy |
Sir Gabriello Cecchi (c. 1914 - 2000) was an Italian entrepreneur in the gelato industry.[1] He created the Gelati Cecchi brand in 1936 and founded Cecchi Industries after the Second World War. He allegedly managed the company until 1973,[2] when he sold the company to the Italian group Barilla.[3] After its sale, he remained Honorary Chairman and Director of the Italian group and Motta-Nestlé up until the 1990s. The brand was relaunched by his grandson, Stefano Cecchi.[4][5][6]
Cecchi was the patron of the Serie-A Pallacanestro Biella team[7][8][9] and a co-founder of a Turin bank. He was a member of the International Brigades that fought Francisco Franco's Fascist army in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Later, having returned to Italy, he became a member of the Garibaldi 77th assault brigade as part of the Italian Resistance.[10]
Honors
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Knight of the Order of Merit for Labour * Commander of Merit of the Military Order of St. Bridget of Sweden[11]
- The Cross of Commander de Premiere Classe du Merite of the Belgian Order of the Crown for philanthropy and meritorious acts
- The Italian War Merit Cross following his role as a partisan in the liberation of the city of Turin
References
- ^ "La scomparsa di Silvano, il mito del gelato artigianale a Torino". la Repubblica. 31 March 2020.
- ^ "I gelati degli anni '70". 17 May 2015.
- ^ "Addio allo storico presidente dell'Esperia, una vita tra fiume e impresa". La Stampa (in Italian). 12 December 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Pubblicato da: bebeez (16 May 2018). "Red Fish Kapital compra il controllo di Pistacchio di Bronte". BeBeez.it. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Banco Biraghi, l'ira di Stefano Cecchi: «Piazza San Carlo non è un mercato»". 30 July 2020.
- ^ "Gelati di Cecchi (E non solo) al posto dei libri di Paravia". 9 August 2020.
- ^ "Piccolo grande uomo – la Repubblica.it". Archivio – la Repubblica.it.
- ^ "La scomparsa di Rudy Bennett, il "gelataio" della Cecchi Biella". www.pianetabasket.com.
- ^ "Legabasket". www.legabasket.it.
- ^ Delzell, Charles F. (1975). "The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance in Retrospect: Three Decades of Historiography". The Journal of Modern History. 47 (1): 66–96. ISSN 0022-2801.
- ^ "Ordine Militare di S. Brigida". www.ordinemilitaresantabrigidacampania.org. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.