Pierluigi Zappacosta

Italian engineer and businessman (born 1950)

Pierluigi Zappacosta built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Pierluigi Zappacosta as Italian engineer and businessman (born 1950).

Pierluigi Zappacosta was born at Chieti in 1950. His recorded nationality is Italy.

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

He worked as engineer and entrepreneur.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

Recognition followed: Order of Minerva (2005).

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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