Gabriello Cecchi

Sir Gabriello Cecchi (Ponte Buggianese, 1914 – Torino, 2000) was an Italian entrepreneur in the gelato industry.[1] He learned the trade from his father Raimondo and went on to perfect it in France. He created the Gelati Cecchi brand in 1936 and founded Cecchi Industries after the war, managing them up until 1973[2] when he sold the company to the Italgel Group-Barilla. After its sale, he remained Honorary chairman and Director of the Italgel Group and Motta-Nestlé up until the 1990s. The brand has been relaunched by his grandson, Stefano Cecchi.[3][4][5]

Sir Gabriello Cecchi ---- Paris, 1939

Cecchi was the patron of the A-series Pallacanestro Biella team[6][7][8] and a co-founder of a Turin Bank. He was a member of the International Brigades that fought Francisco Franco's Fascist army in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and later, having returned to Italy, became a member of the Garibaldi 77th assault brigade fighting in the Italian Resistance.

Honours
  • Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • Knight of the Order of Merit for Labour * Commander of Merit of the Military Order of St. Bridget of Sweden[9]
  • The Cross of Commander de Premiere Classe du Merite of the Belgian Order of the Crown for philanthropy and meritorious acts
  • The Italian War Merit Cross following his role as a partisan in the liberation of the city of Turin

References
  1. "La scomparsa di Silvano, il mito del gelato artigianale a Torino". la Repubblica. 31 March 2020.
  2. "I gelati degli anni '70". 17 May 2015.
  3. Pubblicato da: bebeez. "Red Fish Kapital compra il controllo di Pistacchio di Bronte". BeBeez.it. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  4. https://torino.corriere.it/piemonte/20_luglio_30/banco-biraghi-l-ira-stefano-cecchi-piazza-san-carlo-non-mercato-1d2088c8-d294-11ea-9ae0-73704986785b.shtml
  5. https://torino.corriere.it/cronaca/20_settembre_08/gelati-cecchi-non-soloal-posto-libri-paravia-ab48934e-f13d-11ea-9f2b-89b4229fc5bf.shtml
  6. "Piccolo grande uomo - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it.
  7. "La scomparsa di Rudy Bennett, il "gelataio" della Cecchi Biella". www.pianetabasket.com.
  8. "Legabasket". www.legabasket.it.
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