Biography of Diego Della Valle
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December 30, 1953It is the creator of three of marks "Tod", "Hogan" and "Fay", all synonyms of Italian luxury. Now who wants to dress up smartly can hardly regardless baked leaders by Diego Della Valle, businessman who represents a flagship for Italy by virtue not only of its competence but also of great sensitivity with which it conducts business. His attention to the welfare of workers make it one of the few entrepreneurs "ethical" industrial scene. The adventure of Diego Della Valle part at the beginning of the century from the Shoemaker's craft of his grandfather Philip, Casette D'ete, a village in the province of Fermo. Born on December 30, 1953 after studying law in Bologna and a brief stint in the United States, in 1975 enters the family business, assisting his father in the management.
But it is her idea of an innovative marketing plan (and the launch of new brands), that 80 years have made famous the name of the Valley. With success is then inevitably arrived stock market listing, a sort of baptism by fire that so far has only brought right to the Italian company. Skilled in sniffing out products and designer labels, niche, which may also have an appeal, Diego Della Valle had already entered in the Bank, of course coming to the Board of Directors, at the end of the years ' 90 and precisely to Comit. A role that led to his proverbial clashes with Mediobanca about the fate of the Institute of Piazza della Scala. For some time now as well as being entered on tiptoe in football by purchasing the moribund Fiorentina former Vittorio Cecchi Gori, the Valley is also on the Board of the French luxury polo "Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy" (with which you partner for "Acqua di Parma").
He then secured a small but important 2% stake in RCS, a move that allowed him to join the Board of Directors of via Solferino, "Corriere della sera". His interests range from Rotary stages, therefore always switching for fashion and innovation. Given the extraordinary success of its business, in 1996 he was appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro. Aligned politically with the centre-left, in March of 2006 Diego Della Valle resigned from the Executive Board of Confindustria, following the attack, which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in the middle of the election campaign, aimed at the Association Conference. Consequently the scandal to "Calciopoli" the sentences (July 2006) led Fiorentina to serie B with a penalty by 12 points, and inhibition of Diego Della Valle for four years.
Until 2006 was a shareholder and Director of BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro). The following year the Valley acquires a significant number of shares in Piaggio and Bialetti. In May 2009 buys 5.9% share of American luxury department store "Saks Fifth Avenue", valued at $ 30.3 million, becoming the second shareholder. The network of department stores Saks is the main distributor of "made in Italy" on the us market: one year after the Valley shares climb to 7.13 percent. At the end of the month of March 2010 Review resigned from Honorary President of Fiorentina.
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