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      • Giovanni Agnelli (born Aug. 13, 1866, Villar Perosa, Piedmont, Italy—died Dec. 16, 1945, Turin) was the founder of the Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) automobile company and the leading Italian industrialist of the first half of the 20th century.
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  2. Career. On 11 July 1899, Agnelli was part of the group of founding members of Fiat S.p.A., an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino, which became Fiat; he paid $400 for his share. One year later, he was the managing director of the new company and became the chairman in 1920.

  3. Founder: Fiat SpA. Giovanni Agnelli (born Aug. 13, 1866, Villar Perosa, Piedmont, Italy—died Dec. 16, 1945, Turin) was the founder of the Fiat ( Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) automobile company and the leading Italian industrialist of the first half of the 20th century.

  4. Agnelli (left) with his grandfather and Fiat founder, Giovanni Agnelli, in 1940. Agnelli was educated at Pinerolo Cavalry Academy, and studied law at the University of Turin, although he never practised law. He joined a tank regiment in June 1940 when Italy entered World War II on the side of the Axis powers.

  5. Giovanni Agnelli founded Fiat Car Manufacturing in 1899. His determination and international vision were the guiding forces behind Fiats exponential growth. Born in 1866 in Villar Perosa, Italy, Agnelli studied at the Collegio San Giuseppe in Turin. After graduation, he joined the military and served as a cavalry officer until 1893.

  6. Jan 25, 2003 · By John Tagliabue. Jan. 25, 2003. Giovanni Agnelli, the shrewd, dashing and politically influential international business figure who turned his family's auto company, Fiat, into a worldwide...

  7. Jan 24, 2003 · Giovanni Agnelli was the chairman of the automobile manufacturing company Fiat SpA, Italy’s largest private business enterprise, from 1966 to 2003. Grandson of Fiats founder (also named Giovanni Agnelli), the younger Giovanni was brought up in affluence and groomed by his grandfather to run the

  8. May 17, 2018 · Giovanni Agnelli, Jr. was 46 when he took over FIAT, and his 20 years in the "wilderness" had been spent mostly as a millionaire playboy rather than as a financial and industrial genius. He finally arrived at the headquarters of FIAT in Turin during a period of extraordinary economic expansion in Italy ("the economic miracle").

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