Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone

Italian businessman

Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone as Italian businessman.

Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone was born at Rome in 1943. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at Sapienza University of Rome.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as entrepreneur and businessperson.

What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.

Recognition followed: Order of Merit for Labour.

That the business was built from Italy shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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