Gabriello Cecchi Explained

Sir Gabriello Cecchi (Ponte Buggianese, 1914 – Torino, 2000) was an Italian entrepreneur in the gelato industry.[1] He learned trade from his father Raimondo and went on to improve it in France. He created the Gelati Cecchi brand in 1936 and founded Cecchi Industries after the war. He managed the company until 1973[2] when he sold the company to the Italian group Barilla.[3] After its sale, he remained Honorary chairman and Director of the Italian group and Motta-Nestlé up until the 1990s.The brand was relaunched by his grandson, Stefano Cecchi.[4] [5] [6]

Cecchi was the patron of the A-series Pallacanestro Biella team[7] [8] [9] and a co-founder of a Turin Bank. He was a member of the International Brigades that fought Francisco Franco's Fascist army in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Later, having returned to Italy, he became a member of the Garibaldi 77th assault brigade as part of the Italian Resistance.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: La scomparsa di Silvano, il mito del gelato artigianale a Torino. 31 March 2020. la Repubblica.
  2. Web site: I gelati degli anni '70. 17 May 2015.
  3. Web site: 2014-12-12 . Addio allo storico presidente dell’Esperia, una vita tra fiume e impresa . 2023-10-18 . La Stampa . it.
  4. Web site: Pubblicato da: bebeez . Red Fish Kapital compra il controllo di Pistacchio di Bronte . BeBeez.it . 16 May 2018. 2020-04-14.
  5. Web site: Banco Biraghi, l'ira di Stefano Cecchi: «Piazza San Carlo non è un mercato». 30 July 2020.
  6. Web site: Gelati di Cecchi (E non solo) al posto dei libri di Paravia. 9 August 2020.
  7. Web site: Piccolo grande uomo – la Repubblica.it. Archivio – la Repubblica.it.
  8. Web site: La scomparsa di Rudy Bennett, il "gelataio" della Cecchi Biella. www.pianetabasket.com.
  9. Web site: Legabasket. www.legabasket.it.
  10. Delzell . Charles F. . 1975 . The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance in Retrospect: Three Decades of Historiography . The Journal of Modern History . 47 . 1 . 66–96 . 0022-2801.
  11. Web site: Ordine Militare di S. Brigida . www.ordinemilitaresantabrigidacampania.org . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130510145705/http://www.ordinemilitaresantabrigidacampania.org/ . 10 May 2013 . dead.