“Together with my brothers Lapo and Ginevra we have suffered since we were little physical and psychological violence from our mother. This created a protective relationship on the part of our grandparents. ” Thus the president of Stellantis, John Elkann, in an interview that will be published tomorrow in Avvenire tells the story of his family.
“In 2004 my family banded together for the relaunch of Fiat, but my mother opted out” he later told the newspaper, commenting on the story linked to the inheritance of his grandmother, Marella Caracciolo, widow of the lawyer Gianni Agnelli. “With my brother and sister we have full trust in the Italian judiciary”, underlines Elkann regarding the judicial investigation underway in Turin and observes: “It is a situation that has lasted for twenty years, since 2004, in the midst of crisis we were talking about before, my whole family, out of a sense of responsibility, rallied around Fiat, carrying forward my grandfather’s wishes. The only one who called out was my mother. And instead of being happy, for Fiat, for her family, for the realization of her father’s wishes, she reacted in the worst way.”
“Our roots are in Turin, where we live and strengthen our social commitment” he explains, describing the reason for the decision to live in Turin. “Although my work mainly takes me outside of Italy, my wife and I decided to live in Turin: our children were born here and were baptized here and go to school. Our roots are in Turin, an area we feel connected and to which we continue to strengthen our social commitment”.
“We avoided the fate of Olivetti”
“We avoided the fate of Olivetti: today all of our companies employ more than 74 thousand people in Italy, where we have invested 14 billion in the last 5 years, creating competitive products on world markets” says Elkann in the interview with Avvenire . “Let’s look at the facts: our destiny 20 years ago was that of Olivetti, one of the great companies of our country. Which with the succession of different ownerships, bad management and financial engineering that took the place of product engineering, today does not It no longer exists. Another equally unfortunate possibility was nationalisation, as in the case of Alitalia or Ilva. But it didn’t go that way”, he states and adds: “I still remember our emotion in seeing the first Jeeps come out from the lines of Melfi and the ships that had been purchased to transport them from Basilicata to America”.
“Many nationalities among managers are strength and wealth for the Stellantis group – underlines Elkann again in the interview with Avvenire – it operates all over the world, has strong roots in America, France and Italy, and in its top management there are many nationalities: the ad is Portuguese, the finance manager is American, the head of technology is Croatian. Looking at the brands, the head of Jeep is Italian, that of Peugeot is English, that of Alfa Romeo is French. It is in full respect of national identities the true strength and richness of Stellantis”.
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