Large attendance at the meeting moderated by journalist Enzo Agliardi, in collaboration with the Union of Industrialists of Naples, last July 17. The Association “I Centenari”, Aziende Storiche Familiari Italiane, a driving force behind values to be preserved, enhanced, handed down and communicated, looks to the future. It is the association the ‘Centenarians,’ made up of men and women, descendants of entrepreneurial dynasties more than a hundred years old, who have expressed gratitude and gratitude to their land of origin. A laboratory of ideas resulting from the comparison of lived life experiences, paths, crisis and renewal, strong, thanks to the drive of longevity.
The origins: it was the early 2000s, Pina Amarelli and Martino Cilento, driven by pride in their land, started a project to enhance long-lived family businesses, following the already strong experience of Les Hénokiens, an association from beyond the Alps that brings together family businesses with more than two hundred years of history in the world. All thanks in part to the insight and enthusiasm of Biagio Orlando, a friend of both of them and a profound connoisseur of the business world. Together they managed to turn the idea into a proposal. And today they are looking ahead. Always with the beacon of tradition, more space will be given to the new generations, this is the announcement of President Ugo Cilento, together with the Head of the Neapolitan industrialists Costanzo Jannotti Pecci, his deputy Pierluigi Petrone and the President of the Piccola Industria group, Guido Bourelly.
Centenarians certainly, but also Young people. From September there will be the new rib of the Association of Historic Family Businesses “The Centenarians.” Association whose mission is to enhance the tradition and business culture of outstanding businesses that can boast at least one hundred years of continuous family leadership.
Also President Ugo Cilento, explained how after the summer a delegate of new business captains under 35 will be appointed, who will be tasked with bringing the new challenges and expectations of young people to the association.
Nourished was the participation and testimony of entrepreneurs representing Italian excellence: Guido Fiorentino of the Excelsior Vittoria hotel, Alessandro Gatti of Agricola Gatti, Cosimo Rummo of the eponymous pasta factory in the Benevento area, and Giulia Giannini of Officine Grafiche Giannini.
The Centenarians launched from Naples a message of value and excellence to the whole country: the history of a company is a strategic resource ; each generation has the duty to preserve and at the same time reinterpret the entrepreneurial legacy. A concrete responsibility, with the precise idea of consciously opening to the future like the tree that has its roots deep in the ground and its branches facing the sun.
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