Riccardo Garrone

Italian entrepreneur (1936–2013)

Riccardo Garrone is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Riccardo Garrone as Italian entrepreneur (1936–2013).

Riccardo Garrone was born at Genoa in 1936. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at University of Genoa.

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.

Riccardo Garrone died in 2013, aged 77. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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