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The body was found Monday in the house in Milan: probable heart attack. Son of Aristide, he led the family metalworking industry
The body was found Monday at the home in Milan: probably a heart attack. Son of Aristide, he led the family metalworking industry
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The 53-year-old businessman from the Marche region Andrea Merloni died in Milan. In all likelihood he suffered a heart attack perhaps on Sunday. A domestic worker found him dead on Monday. The industrialist, one of Vittorio’s four children and grandson of Aristide Merloni, one of the most important business figures in post-World War II Italy, was president of Indesit and Benelli. Passionate about motorcycles, Andrea Merloni was not yet thirty when he replaced Giancarlo Selci in the Benelli of Pesaro, a glorious motorcycling brand, which he led until 2004. He was a convinced experimenter, as when he introduced an innovative system on a three-cylinder motorcycle of refrigeration. the motor. However, the Pesaro-based motorcycle manufacturer was unable to regain its desired market.
Andrea Merloni was also president of the Adriano Olivetti Management Training Institute in Ancona, but the activity that gave him the greatest visibility was the presidency of the family business, Fabriano Indesit, from which his father Vittorio Merloni had retired. In 2014 with her brothers Antonella, Maria Paola and her twin Aristide, she discussed the sale of Indesit to the American multinational Whirlpool, which she opposed. The group changed hands in October 2014.
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After leaving the household appliance industry, Andrea Merloni dedicated himself to his passion for the sea: with Fano Ennio Cecchini, managing director of the Cantieri dell’Adriatico, he had built the yacht Audace, a 43-meter-long boat with which, Since its launch in the spring of 2018, it has sailed for months among the most fascinating destinations in the Mediterranean. On the yacht there is also a garage to house an SUV and a motorcycle, Merloni’s strongest passion.
