Word: marinotti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Franco Marinotti, president of Milan's SNIA Viscosa and an old hand at bargaining with Russians, has his own rule of thumb: speak fluent Russian, offer long-term credit and toss down vodka like a Russian. He does all three...
...less deadly a competitor is massive, baldheaded Franco Marinotti, 70, boss of Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest producer of synthetic textile fibers. Marinotti, who preaches a cold-blooded business philosophy ("Gratitude is a sentiment possessed mainly by dogs"), did his postwar rebuilding without a cent of U.S. aid. Despite this self-imposed handicap, he pushed Snia into the front rank of industry by automating to cut costs and by instituting a research program so successful in turning up new fibers that, as he boasts, even the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. has signed up to produce Snia...
...Vinci Complex. Like Marinotti-who paints passable landscapes under the name "Francesco Torri"-many a North Italian businessman takes as his personal hero that versatile Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci, and like Da Vinci is not deterred from any enterprise by lack of experience. A prime example is Count Gaetano Marzotto, 67, whose family-owned Marzotto Textile is Italy's biggest wool spinner and producer of readymade clothes. Several years ago, enraged by an all-night bout with bedbugs in a Sicilian hotel, Marzotto set out to build his own hotels in Italy's remote places. Clean, simple...