Rank #1320
Augusto Perfetti
Net worth $3.2B
Candy · Italy
- Born
- Aug 11, 1946
- Age
- 79
- Source
- Candy
- Residence
- Lugano
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Augusto Perfetti and his brother Giorgio Perfetti own candy and gum giant Perfetti Van Melle, a company with more than $4.8 billion in revenues in 2024.
- Their father Ambrogio and uncle Egidio started the company in 1946 as a chewing gum business in a small town near Milan.
- In 2022, the company announced it would acquire Mondelez International's developed market gum business, adding brands such as Trident, Dentyne and Bubbalicious.
- Augusto Perfetti named his yacht and his private jet after Mentos mints and Airheads taffy, the company's top-selling brands.
- Perfetti once sold a 300-foot yacht under construction to fellow billionaire Suleiman Kerimov.
- Perfetti's father and uncle were inspired to start the company after seeing American soldiers bring gum to Europe during World War II.