Carlo Caprotti di Bernardo Caprotti: all-round entrepreneur
After separating in business from his elder brother Beppo (1872), Carlo moved to Bergamo and here he set up two textile companies, one in 1874, the 'Società in nome collettivo Caprotti & Guttinger', the other in 1901, the individual firm 'C. M. Caprotti'.
Carlo Caprotti di Bernardo: Protestant marriage, conversion and separation from his brother Giuseppe, called Beppo (my great-great-grandfather)
Carlo fell in love with Selina, daughter of Zurich businessman Nicholas Hübert, who had business between his homeland, Switzerland, and Bergamo, home to a strong and wealthy Reformed business community, and married her in 1871.
Carlo Caprotti di Bernardo: Risorgimento and politics
Carlo Caprotti was the Caprotti with the most ardent spirit. Whichever venture he embarked on, he always threw himself heart and soul into it, whether it was his Risorgimento and libertarian passions, his republican political commitment, his marriage or the fortunes of his factory.
Giuseppe ‘Beppo’ Caprotti of Bernardo, my great-great-grandfather
Giuseppe, known as Beppo, is the son of Bernardo, who officially 'founded' the company 'Bernardo Caprotti di Giuseppe' in 1840, thus transforming an absolutely local reality into a real company, however small.
Press freedom in Italy is increasingly ‘problematic’ (also in the European hybrid war against Russia)
Let us remember: correct information, freedom of the press, coincide with democracy, and ultimately with our freedom in the broadest sense
Guido Caprotti (1929- 2012), co-founder of Esselunga and GS (now part of the Carrefour group)
It was thanks to the friendship between Guido Caprotti and Marco Brunelli that Esselunga and the GS supermarket chain (now part of the Carrefour group) were founded
About the GS- Carrefour operation and the Benetton – Delvecchio consortium
“Someone still has to explain to me why, in a retail market that needed concentration [and expertise], the government allowed a group that didn’t even have a delicatessen, to buy GS (which belonged to Sme =IRI= Italian State!) and then resell it quietly to a foreign group (Carrefour) after a few years” Mario Gasbarrino. This also applies to the New Princes operation
“Le Ossa dei Caprotti” the difference between journalistic reporting and history
Between journalism, political non-fiction and history, the difference, in my opinion, lies in the research, which in the latter, is much more in-depth and is based, first and foremost, on the study of documents and archives. But the added value of this book was also the contribution of people who worked or were close to Esselunga, a company with much more widespread entrepreneurship than you might think
Nelson Rockefeller: with IBEC, the supermarket leaves America and goes to Italy
The success of the supermarket in Venezuela prompted Rockefeller to expand the model in South America and then in Europe, starting with Italy. Among the investors were the Caprotti brothers, including my father Bernardo Caprotti and my uncle Guido. In 1957 Supermarkets Italiani, the future Esselunga, was founded in Milan.
Tenth MAS: if the Italian Navy ignores its history
The Navy ignores on its website the participation of the X Mas in the fighting of the Nazi-Fascists. This is unacceptable because History cannot be written in half
