Giuseppe ‘Beppo’ Caprotti di Bernardo, my great-great-grandfather: the ‘Bernardo Caprotti di Giuseppe’ company
In 1872 Carlo Caprotti, Beppo Caprotti's younger brother, left the family business to strike out on his own. Remaining the sole owner of the family business, Beppo continued with the decisive policy of investments aimed at bringing it to a level of mechanisation that would make it competitive on markets not only in Italy.
Giuseppe ‘Beppo’ Caprotti of Bernardo, my great-great-grandfather: the family
By now launched in business and having achieved a respectable social and economic position, the time came for Beppo to marry. On 21 September 1863, he married Giuseppina Polti di Antonio, a fabric merchant from Lecco and a loyal customer of the Manifattura even after the marriage.
Giuseppe ‘Beppo’ Caprotti of Bernardo, my great-great-grandfather: education and training
Beppo was the first to receive a broader education than his parents, which had to be limited: in 1851, he left for a Swiss boarding school, the Institut Hüni in Horgen, Canton Zurich, which provided vocational training.
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.
USA: why Publix is a unique phenomenon
Publix has done so well, with much higher margins than all competitors, because it has a strong and enduring culture built in part on share ownership
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
San Valerio Protomartyr of Africa, in Albiate
The relics preserved in the oratory of the same name in Albiate belong to a San Valerio who was martyred in Africa with San Rufinus, at the time of the great anti-Christian persecutions (3rd-4th century A.D.), and whose name day is set, along with that of his companion, at 16 November, the day on which the oratory is opened and mass is celebrated. His bones are “protagonists” of my book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti
A brief history of Villa San Valerio and the adjacent chapel in Albiate
1893: when the main branch of the Airoldi family became extinct in 1768, the inheritance passed to a secondary branch that moved to Sicily, whose last heirs at the end of the 19th century decided to liquidate the Lombard properties, which were sold at least in part (including the villa) to the brothers Bernardo, Antonio, Emilio and Giovanni Caprotti di Giuseppe. With the sale, as was customary at the time, a large part of the family archive with the history of the properties sold and their administration, as well as the history of the Airoldi family itself from at least the 16th century, also passed to the new owners
How to measure – well – sales in distribution: with a constant network
Sales in distribution are measured by gross revenues, including new openings and restructurings. But there is another, healthier and clearer method to understand whether a company is really doing well or not, regardless of network development: constant network sales, which exclude new openings and major restructuring in the year measured
