| Luigi Cremonini | |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Occupation: | businessman |
| Spouse: | married |
| Children: | 4 |
Luigi Cremonini (born 1939) is an Italian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of Cremonini SpA and Inalca SpA, and the honorary president of the Chamber of Commerce ItalAfrica Centrale.[1] [2]
Cremonini was born in 1939,[3] into a poor farming family near Modena, Italy.[4] He studied farming in Bologna.[3] In May 1994, the University of Bologna awarded him the honorary degree in veterinary medicine.
In 1963, Cremonini opened, with his brother Giuseppe a small butcher's shop, the start of the pan-European Cremonini Group, with an annual turnover of meat products of $3.6 billion, and Marr, Italy's largest food-service distributor.[4]
Cremonini is married, with four children, and lives in Modena, Italy.[4]
In 1985, he was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Queen Beatrix and appointed Cavalier of Labour by the President Alessandro Pertini.[5] In October 2009, Cremonini was presented with an "Italy in the World 2009" award at the Italian Embassy in Moscow.[6]