Portrait of Luigi Cremonini & family

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Luigi Cremonini & family

Net worth $1.0B

meat processing · Italy

Born
Apr 28, 1939
Age
87
Source
meat processing
Residence
Modena
Citizenship
Italy
Marital status
Married
Children
4
Education

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Biography

  • Luigi Cremonini supplies hamburger meat to McDonald's and Burger King in Italy and other countries through his privately-held Inalca SpA.
  • Born to poor farmers in an Italian village near Modena, Cremonini got his start by opening a small butcher shop in 1963.
  • Beginning in the late 1970s he diversified into cured meats, distribution and catering and within a decade expanded the business internationally.
  • Today Cremonini Group employs more than 19,500 workers all over the globe and generated $5.6 billion in revenues in 2022.
  • Its catering arm Chef Express sells food on trains in Europe, Turkey and Russia, including the Eurostar service between London and Paris.
  • In 1994 the University of Bologna awarded Cremonini an honorary degree in Veterinary Medicine.
  • An art lover, Cremonini has a vast collection of paintings and contributed to the restoration of an archaeological area near the Trevi fountain in Rome.

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