Luxottica founder and chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio and chairman of EssilorLuxottica died Monday morning at age 87.
founder and chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio and chairman of EssilorLuxottica died Monday morning at age 87.
One of the wealthiest and most influential men in Italy, Del Vecchio was the embodiment of the self-made man. He was born in Milan on May 22, 1935, but his father died five months prior to his birth and his mother couldn’t afford to support her five children, so he grew up in an orphanage from age seven.
He began his career as an apprentice to a tool and dye maker in Milan, but decided to turn his metalworking skills to make spectacle parts and moved in 1961, when he was 25, to Agordo, in the province of Belluno, to found a new company:He was also one of the key figures on the Italian economic scene, as one of the main shareholders of giant bank Mediobanca and Generali insurance company.
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