In addition to Bernardo Caprotti, two key figures were also present at the inauguration: the first is Mario Crespi, pictured next to Bernardo, who with his brother Vittorio, Marco Brunelli, Bernardo and Guido Caprotti was one of the main minority shareholders in Nelson Rockefeller’s IBEC, which held 51% of the Italian company Supermarkets ‘and who taught Italians what a supermarket was and how it was run. The second, indicating the cashier, is ‘Ferdinando Schiavoni (…)
the man who links Rockefeller’s managers to the Caprotti family. He has been with the company since the very first hour: you can see him in the photos of the inauguration of Viale Regina Giovanna, in 1957 (…). He is one of the very few who speak English and it is he who hires and manages all the old guard (…)’ (pp. 151 – 152).
