Rank #2857
Antonio Percassi
Net worth $1.3B
Real estate, diversified · Italy
- Born
- Jun 09, 1953
- Age
- 72
- Source
- Real estate, diversified
- Residence
- Bergamo
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 6
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Antonio Percassi is a real estate and retail mogul with properties in Italy and the United States.
- Percassi's older brothers founded a real estate company in the 1960s, and he branched out into commercial real estate in the 1980s.
- Percassi got his start in retail when he met fellow billionaire Luciano Benetton in 1976, and went on to manage stores for the Benetton fashion brand.
- Percassi brought Zara to Italy in 2001 and opened the first Starbucks store in Milan in 2018.
- He also owns a 52% stake in KIKO Milano, an Italian cosmetics brand he founded in 1997.
- Percassi owns a stake in his hometown soccer club, Atalanta Calcio, and played for the team from age 17 to 23.
- He sold a majority stake in Atalanta to Stephen Pagliuca, co-chair of Bain Capital, in 2022.