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  Michele Ferrero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Owner of the eponymous chocolate maker Ferrero SpA, one of Europe's largest with estimated 2002 sales of $4 billion.
Brands include Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tacs and Kinder Eggs.
Michele Ferrero (1967-) is also a Catholic priest,born in Cuneo (Italy), Salesian of Don Bosco, professor of Moral Theology and author of books and articles about Taiwan, China and Moral Theology.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michele_Ferrero   (163 words)

  
 www.ferrero.se
In the early forties, Pietro Ferrero began creating and producing sweets in Alba, a small town in the Piemonte region in the northwest of Italy.
Today, the Ferrero Group is one of the largest confectionary producers in the world.
The key to this continuing success is found in Ferrero's product policy which is based on three fundamental concepts: meeting the highest quality standards, appealing to national and international tastes and to people of all ages, using only carefully selected raw materials.
www.kinder.dk /?page=history   (297 words)

  
 Michele Ferrero & family, The World's Richest People - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The decision came after Ferrero initially lost the case.
Ferrero characterizes the Chinese chocolates as, "usually of poor quality, harming its brand value and sales." Ferrero nonetheless is determined to expand in Asia, particularly China.
Michele relinquished day-to-day oversight to sons Pietro, 43, and Giovanni, 42, who are co-chiefs.
www.forbes.com /lists/2006/10/S9QN.html   (228 words)

  
 Ferrero Rocher 16 Piece Gift Bell - 51956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Ferrero family pursued a recipe for success that consisted of three key ingredients: high-quality materials, ultramodern manufacturing facilities and a distribution system that would allow only fresh product on the shelves.
Pietro Ferrero and his brother, Giovanni, ran the new enterprise until the early 1950's.
In 1956, Michele built a new factory in Germany and expanded the operation throughout Europe, an astounding accomplishment for a business just one decade old at the time.
www.itsalldirect2u.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3110   (312 words)

  
 Promotex Online - The Smart Egg
Ferrero got its start almost sixty years ago in Alba, a small town in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy.
Michele Ferrero, Pietro's son, expanded the company by opening offices and production facilities in Germany in 1956 and France in 1958.
Ferrero, which today is one of the world's largest confectionary companies, is still a family-owned business and, though the company now has its headquarters in Liechtenstein, instead of Italy, still regards Alba as its home.
www.promotex.ca /articles/cawthon/2004/2004-10-15_article.html   (2068 words)

  
 Fondazione Piera, Pietro e Giovanni Ferrero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Piera, Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero Foundation was created in 1983 with the name of Opera Sociale Ferrero (Ferrero Social Organization) according to Michele Ferrero's will.
The social activities section bases its work with the Ferrero Pensioners essentially on the fundamental value of health, operating through several initiatives and a special medical service.
The Ferrero Foundation's activities are superintended by the Administration Council, presided over by Mrs.Maria Franca Ferrero.
www.fondazioneferrero.it /INDEXENG.HTM   (176 words)

  
 Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It's 1964 and Michele Ferrero is working on a new "invention": it's the famous NUTELLA, a product to suit new demands and appeal to every market.
In his quest Michele Ferrero started with Pasta Gianduja, created in 1946, brick-shaped and wrapped in aluminium foil, solid cream ready to be cut into slices; going further with Supercrema, ready to be spread onto bread, which was created in the early 50's.
The choice of the name is not a coincidence: it is just "a name which is easy to remember", and, after all those years and the great success all over the world, you just have to agree with the idea of ITS creator..."
www.members.tripod.com /~NutellaFans/mail.html   (136 words)

  
 SellAgence Limited : New Zealand Consumer Product Marketing, Field Sales, Distribution, Supply Chain Management & ...
In the early 1950’s Pietro’s son, Michele Ferrero, took over the Ferrero brand and began a strong new phase of international expansion.
Ferrero has become the world’s third largest confectionery company that prides itself on delivering a unique consumption experience on all the brands its manufactures and markets.
Ferrero Rocher is an irresitible combination of luscious, creamy chocolaty filling surrounding a whole toasted, aromatic hazelnut held softly within a delicate, crisp wafer, all enveloped in rich milk chocolate and finely crushed hazelnuts.
www.sellagence.co.nz /News.aspx?id=15   (421 words)

  
 Michele PW
Michele also helped me position my live event in a way that I never could have done alone – and new people came because of what they read about.
Michele is an essential part of my team and I recommend her to my clients regularly.
Michele Pariza Wacek is one of the few who does.
www.writingusa.com   (1390 words)

  
 ESPN.com - TENNIS - Ferrero, Costa move into second round in Barcelona
Ferrero defeated Belgium's Kristof Vliegen 6-1, 6-2, and Costa beat American Vince Spadea 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-1.
Ferrero won the event in 2001 and Costa in 1997.
Ferrero and Costa were among eight Spaniards to win on the opening day.
sports.espn.go.com /sports/tennis/news/story?id=2419899   (389 words)

  
 Gigi Padovani, La grande Spalmata
Later, in 1951, Michele Ferrero, Pietro’s son, invented a soft chocolate dough that was sold in Italy as Supercrema.
Every year the row of jars of Nutella produced by the Ferrero group is as long as the circumference of the earth, 40 thousand kilometers.
Also the advertising campaigns of Ferrero have been adapted to the perception of the consumers: from a product that has contributed to trace the "Italian way of chocolate", convincing the Italian mothers to give this spreading cream to their children because it is associated to bread, it has become an emblem of pleasure.
www.gigipadovani.it /1/archives/cat_nutella_a_cambridge_img_altnew002gif_srchttpwwwgigipadovaniit1imagenew002gif_width.html   (2382 words)

  
 Re: The Ferrero Firm...the maker of Nutella, Giotto, and Rafa...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Re: The Ferrero Firm...the maker of Nutella, Giotto, and Rafa...
Re: The Ferrero Firm...the maker of Nutella, Giotto, and Rafaello...
Nutella, the greatest stuff on earth is apparently of Italian origin, supposedly from 1946 by Michele Ferrero from what I just read.
www.shoppingplace.com /_ask2/00001673.htm   (63 words)

  
 THE BILLIONAIRES 1990 - September 10, 1990
Ferrero's grandfather Pietro struck a sweet tooth when he concocted a hazelnut-based chocolate substitute that became Nutella.
Michele, who took over the company at 24 after his father died of heart disease, puts in 15-hour days, including, Saturday, and roams supermarkets to ask shoppers if they like his products, which include Tic-Tac mints.
Ferrero, his wife (a former employee), and two sons (both employees) moved to Belgium in 1975, fearing kidnappers in their native Italy.
money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73983   (16120 words)

  
 JS Online:Chocolaty Nutella spreads from breakfast table to dessert
Nutella is also a "popular after-school snack" in Italy and France and is becoming increasingly popular in the United States, said Chris Treston, associate brand manager at Ferrero USA Inc., the Somerset, N.J., firm that makes Nutella as well as Rocher chocolates and Tic Tacs.
To feed a demand for chocolate, Ferrero mixed cocoa with toasted hazelnuts, cocoa butter and vegetable oils and created an economical chocolate spread he called pasta gianduja, which roughly translates to chocolate paste.
Today the firm is run by the founder's son, Michele Ferrero, and has its headquarters in Luxembourg, with branch offices throughout the world - including Alba.
www.jsonline.com /entree/cooking/nov02/95193.asp?format=print   (1231 words)

  
 ESPN.com - TENNIS - Nadal, Ferrero won't represent Spain in Davis Cup
MADRID, Spain -- Rafael Nadal and Juan Carlos Ferrero won't represent Spain in the country's Davis Cup match against Belarus next month.
Nadal, the No. 2 player in the world last year, won't play because of a foot injury.
Ferrero had an abdominal injury at the Australian Open.
sports.espn.go.com /sports/tennis/news/story?id=2302010   (214 words)

  
 University of North Dakota Official Athletic Website
3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Ferrero cf...............
DeRose singled; Hart advanced to second; Ferrero advanced to third.
Cavanaugh reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; DeRose advanced to second; Hart out at third ss to 3b; Ferrero scored.
www.fightingsioux.com /sports/softball/boxscore.asp?GAME_ID=2113   (851 words)

  
 THE BILLIONAIRES - September 7, 1992
MICHELE FERRERO, 67 Brussels BELGIUM $1.8 80% of Ferrero: Tic Tac, Nutella, Ferrero Rocher pralines.
In Europe, a Nutella-and-bread snack is as common for children as milk and cookies is in the U.S. Michele, who runs the company from Brussels, is so obsessed with duplicating the Nutella phenomenon that top Ferrero managers are compelled to attend weekly blind taste tests in which Michele's concoctions are presented with other sweets.
MICHEL FRIBOURG, 79 and family New York NEW YORK $1.1 100% of Continental Grain; 8.6% of the Overseas Ship Holding Co. The fifth- generation heir to the 179-year-old Belgian agribusiness firm began his reign as CEO in 1944, only to be replaced by an outsider 44 years later when the grain industry was doing poorly.
money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/07/76826   (17859 words)

  
 Boston College Official Athletic Site
3 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 3 Ferrero, Elena dp........
2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Daly, Michelle p.........
Harvard 5th - FERRERO to dp for BOOTH.
bceagles.cstv.com /sports/w-softbl/stats/2004-2005/29bcharv.html   (772 words)

  
 The Economist, dossier Berlusconi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He mentioned…that Ferrero, as well as Barilla, as well as Buitoni, had come forward…“So…”, he said “…I know that an accountant, a Mr.
We set up a meeting at Ferrero’s head office in Turin or a nearby town; we all went there together and drafted a telex, which we sent to IRI the same evening.
It was the last day, 28th May…I would say that this was the most important step in the process; I’d carried out the prime minister’s instructions, a procedure which would have led to completion of the contract had been halted, and…much higher bids…[had been received] than the price specified in the preliminary agreement with CIR.
www.societacivile.it /memoria/articoli_memoria/dossier_economist.html   (14211 words)

  
 Strategymag.com - Straight talk - Design gone good
However, there are many examples that should encourage us to fight tooth and nail for great product/pack designs.
From my old industry of confectionery, Ferrero Rocher is a triumph of bull-headed obsession over cold, calculating Cost Accounting.
Making a spherical chocolate with three layers - by no means easy; using luxuriously thick gold foil - an extravagance; putting a little sticker on the top of each one - surely overkill; putting them in a little paper tray THE RIGHT WAY UP - "C'mon.
www.strategymag.com /articles/magazine/20041015/bradley.html   (384 words)

  
 Michele PW – Media Room
I've also had experience as a speaker and as both a radio and television guest.
Considered one of the hottest copywriters and marketing consultants in the market today, Michele PW (Michele Pariza Wacek) has a reputation for crafting copy and creating marketing campaigns that get results.
Michele started writing professionally in 1992, working at agencies and on staff as a marketing/communication/writing specialist.
www.writingusa.com /media.html   (341 words)

  
 Guerilla Marketing
Michele Ferrero, the late boss of Ferrero (one of the largest confectionery businesses in the world) used to spend two days every week just watching shoppers.
He created a steady stream of hugely successful new products (including Ferrero Rocher, Tic Tac and the Kinder Egg) which have perfectly met the needs of consumers.
Terry Leahy, the boss of Tesco, spends a day a week in his stores, talking to customers and staff.
nuttymarketer.blogspot.com   (7381 words)

  
 Adler Typewriter Ribbons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After taking his degree in electrical engineering, Camillo Olivetti accompanied his tutor, Galileo Ferraris, to the United States and there taught at Stanford University, California, for two years, where he met Thomas Edison.
On his return to Italy, Camillo went into industry with his partners, Dino Gatta and Michele Ferrero.
Together, they established in 1896 a small electrical precision instrument plant-the first in Italy, at Ivrea, and called it C.G.S. The factory later transferred to Milan and prospered, but Camillo left the Company and returned to Ivrea to design and manufacture typewriters.
debarth-fics.com /ribbons/typewriterHistSection.htm   (8426 words)

  
 WSU | President's Office | President's Honor Roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Megan Michelle Megaard, Jennifer Louise Sherwood, Elena Tchalakov and Theresia Yvonne Urbat
NEWMAN LAKE: Aisha Nicole McMillan, Michelle H. Putnam and Josh Taylor Woollett
Muzi Liu, Jie Li, Lindsay Claire Backhouse, Robyn Michelle Stephenson, Kristie Leeann Noble, Emma Cecilia Joneby, Joseph Henri Haering, Kathyrn Szabo Bell, Jyun-Lyang Chang, Hsiu-Hsuan Chang, Sarah Jane Lin, Wei-Lun Hsu Jr., Takumu Niino, Cagri Korlu, Sophia Sushailo, Hai Viet Tran, Yiqin Zheng and Kim Anh Thi Nguyen
www.wsu.edu /president/honor-roll-eastern.html   (1444 words)

  
 WSU | President's Office | President's Honor Roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
LIBERTY LAKE: Shawn Dale Beers, Mary Melissa Burt, Jessica Jeanne Butler, Sarah Michelle Crilly, Mahlon Kyle Dalley, Douglas Edward Kikendall, Adam Michael Lassiter, Clinton Gary Lueken, Jessica Marie Leyk, Jennifer W. Nygard, Melissa Marie Pickering, Pearl Jayne Robinson, Justin Karl Stovall and Nikki Jo Vogt
NEWMAN LAKE: Molly Jean Bellefeuille, Brandon Paul Bucher, Shannon Rae Kline, Aisha Nicole McMillan, Misty Blu Olson, Michelle H. Putnam and Josh Taylor Woollett
PALOUSE: Moses John Boone, Amberly Michelle Kent, Lindsey L. Kimble, Lavonne Hammelman, Carly Jean Kerr and Laura J. Louden
www.wsu.edu /president/honor-roll-eastern-05.html   (1375 words)

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