Sir Gabriello Cecchi ---- Paris, 1939

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.

Honours

  • Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • Knight of the Order of Merit for Labour * Commander of Merit of the Military Order of St. Bridget of Sweden[10]
  • The Cross of Commander de Premiere Classe du Merite of the Belgian Order of the Crown for philanthropy and meritorious acts
  • The Italian War Merit Cross following his role as a partisan in the liberation of the city of Turin

References

  1. ↑ "La scomparsa di Silvano, il mito del gelato artigianale a Torino". la Repubblica. 31 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "I gelati degli anni '70". 17 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Addio allo storico presidente dell'Esperia, una vita tra fiume e impresa". La Stampa (in Italian). 12 December 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Pubblicato da: bebeez (16 May 2018). "Red Fish Kapital compra il controllo di Pistacchio di Bronte". BeBeez.it. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Banco Biraghi, l'ira di Stefano Cecchi: «Piazza San Carlo non è un mercato»". 30 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Gelati di Cecchi (E non solo) al posto dei libri di Paravia". 9 August 2020.
  7. ↑ "Piccolo grande uomo – la Repubblica.it". Archivio – la Repubblica.it.
  8. ↑ "La scomparsa di Rudy Bennett, il "gelataio" della Cecchi Biella". www.pianetabasket.com.
  9. ↑ "Legabasket". www.legabasket.it.
  10. ↑ "Ordine Militare di S. Brigida". www.ordinemilitaresantabrigidacampania.org. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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