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  Guardian | Umberto Agnelli
Umberto Agnelli was born in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne, one of the seven children of Virginia Bourbon del Monte, princess of San Faustino.
Paradoxically, it was the greatest tragedy of Umberto's life - the death of his son from a rare form of stomach cancer in 1997 at the age of 33 - that opened the way for him to take over the leadership of the group when Gianni himself died six years later.
Umberto, who listed his leisure interests as golf, modern art and skiing, is survived by his second wife, Allegra Caracciolo, with whom he had two children, Andrea and Anna.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4935208-103684,00.html   (783 words)

  
 Umberto Agnelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Umberto Agnelli, (November 1, 1934 - 28 May 2004) was the chairman of Italian carmaker Fiat from early 2003 until his death.
Umberto Agnelli was in the process of restoring Fiat's balance sheet after the company's balance sheet, market share, and share value were all in decline.
Elder son Giovanni Alberto Agnelli was groomed to succeed at Fiat but died young of cancer in 1997.
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 Umberto Agnelli, Quiet Member of Fiat Dynasty, Dies at 69 - New York Times
Umberto Agnelli, who stepped into the limelight at Fiat, the Italian auto empire, after a lifetime in the shadow of relatives renowned for their flamboyance, died late Thursday in the family's villa, La Mandria, outside Turin.
While Umberto Agnelli's death closes the chapter on a generation of Agnelli lore, it also leaves a blurry future for Fiat, a company that is increasingly saddled with financial troubles and faces the threat of foreclosure on its more than $3 billion in loans.
Umberto Agnelli was born on Nov. 1, 1934, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Edoardo Agnelli and Princess Virginia Bourbon del Monte di San Faustino.
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 Xak.com: Fiat Chairman Umberto Agnelli Dies at 69
Umberto took over at the 105-year-old group only last year after his more charismatic brother Gianni died, also of cancer, in January 2003 at the age of 81.
Umberto's death marks a generational shift in the boardroom of the Turin-based industrial group, which owns the Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati and Alfa Romeo marques.
Umberto Agnelli was once considered open to the idea of selling Fiat's loss-making auto operations but he shifted direction after taking over and pinned the company's future on the core businesses of car and truck manufacturing.
www.xak.com /main/newsshow.asp?id=33033   (309 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Agnelli Family May Step Aside After Death of Fiat Chairman
Gianni Agnelli had designated his grandson John Elkann as the eventual heir to the Fiat leadership, but at 28 he is considered by most industry analysts as too green to take the helm.
Umberto's emphasis on the auto business, founded by his grandfather in 1899, surprised many because he had been intent on diversifying the family portfolio for years.
Umberto, like his brother and much of the rest of the family, was a fervent supporter of Turin's Juventus soccer team, which is controlled by Fiat and has won more Italian championships than any other.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A64327-2004May28?language=printer   (622 words)

  
 Fiat chairman Umberto Agnelli dies | | Guardian Unlimited Business
Agnelli was the grandson of Fiat's founder Giovanni, and brother of the patrician jet-setter Gianni, who between them built up Italy's "uncrowned royal family".
Agnelli's death ends the long reign of the family after a string of recent demises that has left the clan short of figureheads.
Umberto Agnelli's appointment as chairman of Fiat in 2003 illustrated the dearth of suitable heirs in the dynasty.
business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,3604,1226966,00.html   (527 words)

  
 Fiat Chairman Dies - The Car Connection
Umberto Agnelli's eldest son, who was being groomed to take over the family automotive busines died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 33.
Umberto Agnelli, who had recommitted the family to the automotive business by selling off other parts of the Fiat's diverse industrial empire, had never demonstrated much interest in the put and earlier this year he appears to have assured GM officials Fiat current management wouldn't force the issue.
Umberto Agnelli had spent most of his life in the shadow of his glamorous brother, who was 13 years older and lived most of his life in the public eye.
www.thecarconnection.com /index.asp?article=7192   (654 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Fiat chief Agnelli dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Agnelli, who was long sidelined in his family's auto empire, got his chance to take over after his elder brother Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli died in January 2003.
Born in 1934, Umberto Agnelli was the youngest of seven children of a growing automobile dynasty.
Umberto Agnelli suffered grief early: His father died when he was 1, his mother when he was 11.
www.usatoday.com /money/autos/2004-05-28-fiat_x.htm   (918 words)

  
 Umberto Agnelli, chairman of Fiat - The Boston Globe
Fiat cairman Umberto Agnelli has died of cancer, ending an era at Italy's largest industrial group and raising questions about the founding family's future within the world's 10th biggest car maker.
Agnelli, 69, died late Thursday in a family villa on the outskirts of Turin less than three weeks after an announcement that he had lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes.
Agnelli's death marks a generational shift in the boardroom with his great-nephew John Elkann, grandson of Gianni, the most prominent family member within management now.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/05/29/umberto_agnelli_chairman_of_fiat   (381 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Fiat boss Umberto Agnelli dies
Umberto Agnelli, the chairman of the Italian industrial giant Fiat Group, has died from cancer at his home in Turin, according to Italian police.
Mr Agnelli, 69, was appointed Fiat chairman in February last year after the death of his brother, legendary Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli.
Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist credited with transforming Fiat from an obscure Italian car maker into a major force in the global automotive industry as well as other industries, was the firm's honorary chairman when he died.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3756043.stm   (359 words)

  
 Agnelli, Umberto -
Agnelli was the youngest of seven children of the third generation of the greatItalian Fiat automobile manufacturing dynasty.  The children's father died in 1935 ina plane crash and their mother died in an automobile crash ten years later, whenUmberto was eleven.
Umberto alsoserved as a senator in the Italian Parliament from 1976 to 1979 for the ChristianDemocratic party.
Giovanni intended that Umberto's son, Giovannino, succeed him ashead of the company, but Giovannino died in 1997, and when Giovanni died in 2003Umberto became head of the business empire (which includes the newspaper La Stampa,insurance, aviation and energy companies), which was in the doldrums.
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 Umberto Agnelli has died - Page 5 - Juventuz Forums
Gianni and Umberto Agnelli where very special personalities that, with the pass of years, were able to imprint their philosopy of life and strong characters into the team, giving us that sense of excellence and greatness that had always distinguish Juventus.....
Umberto Agnelli had less than a year-and-a-half in the beautifully upholstered leather chair in Fiat's boardroom.
Umberto Agnelli was born in 1934, one of seven children, but his father Eduardo, founder in 1899 of Fiat, died in an air crash when he was aged just one, and his mother perished in a car accident when he was 11.
www.juventuz.com /forum/showthread.php?p=429253   (1307 words)

  
 La muerte de Umberto Agnelli abre una nueva incógnita en Fiat
Umberto Agnelli se había convertido en el hombre fuerte de Fiat hace poco más de un año, tras el fallecimiento, también debido a un cáncer, de su hermano Giovanni Agnelli el 24 de enero de 2003.
Umberto Agnelli, eterno aspirante a la presidencia de Fiat, acabó ocupando este cargo, en el que sustituyó a Paolo Fresco en el momento más delicado de la industria más importante de Italia, que ha marcado toda una época.
Umberto Agnelli, nacido el 1 de noviembre de 1934, era el más joven de la tercera generación de los Agnelli.
elmundomotor.elmundo.es /elmundomotor/2004/05/28/empresas/1085731729.html   (839 words)

  
 [Italy] Fiat Chairman Umberto Agnelli Dies at 69 : NC Indymedia
Agnelli, 69, died in the family villa, La Mandria, on the outskirts of Turin less than three weeks after an announcement that he had lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes.
Umberto took charge of Fiat only last year after his more charismatic brother Gianni died of cancer in January 2003, and he spent the next 16 months trying to tackle the worst financial crisis in the group's 105-year-history.
Umberto's father Edoardo died in a plane crash in 1935 and his mother in a car accident a few years later.
chapelhill.indymedia.org /news/2004/05/10671.php?theme=1&theme=default   (839 words)

  
 Fiat chief Umberto Agnelli dead at 69
Umberto Agnelli, chairman of Italy's largest industrial group Fiat and one of Italy's richest men, died of cancer late Thursday night in Turin.
Umberto leaves unfinished the job of pulling heavily lossmaking Fiat into the 21st century as a public company rather than a family fief.
Umberto's son Giovanni Alberto died from a rare cancer in 1997 at age 33; his, while Gianni's son Edoardo committed suicide in 2000 by jumping from a viaduct.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2004/05/28/umberto040528.html?print   (1578 words)

  
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ROME -- The death of Umberto Agnelli, Fiat's chairman and the last member of its old guard, marks the end of an era at the Turin-based auto giant and raises questions about the family's future grip on the company.
Agnelli's death came as Fiat battles to rebound from its worst financial crisis ever.
If that occurs, the Agnelli family's stake in Fiat would decline to around 22 percent from the current 30 percent, while the combined stake of the banks would be around 26 percent.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/05/29/business/news/19_19_115_28_04.prt   (747 words)

  
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Giovanni Agnelli, Umberto's older brother (by 13 years) had been Vice Chairman of Fiat from 1946, and became Chairman in 1966 at the passing of Vittorio Valletta.
Umberto was one of the last of the Agnelli old guard, whom Italians have watched with the fascination Americans feel for the Kennedys.
Umberto Agnelli was born in 1934, the youngest of seven children.
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 Telegraph | Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When Umberto took over the reins of Fiat last year, the company was in its worst financial crisis since it was founded by Jaki's great-grandfather Giovanni Agnelli in 1899.
Although Umberto had been chosen by Gianni as his successor as long ago as the 1970s, he was less popular within Fiat generally and in financial circles, and was forced to remain in the shadows at the company for years.
Umberto, by contrast, was traditionally labelled by Italian biographers as "un uomo chiuso" - literally, a closed man. Yet over the decades Umberto had held a number of key posts in the Fiat and Agnelli family empires, before taking the reins of the entire group last year.
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 Repubblica.it/economia: E' morto Umberto Agnelli Il presidente Fiat aveva 69 anni
Umberto Agnelli era nato a Losanna, in Svizzera, il primo novembre del 1934.
A casa di Umberto Agnelli in mattinata sono arrivati Gianluigi Gabetti, presidente dell'Ifil, e Franzo Grande Stevens, avvocato da sempre vicino alla famiglia ma anche neopresidente della Compagnia di San Paolo.
Umberto Agnelli si era sposato due volte: dalla prima moglie, Antonella Bechi Piaggio, aveva avuto il figlio Giovanni Alberto (morto poi nel 1997); dopo il divorzio aveva sposato Allegra Caracciolo, cugina di Marella Caracciolo, moglie di Giovanni Agnelli, e da lei aveva avuto i figli Andrea ed Anna.
www.repubblica.it /2004/e/sezioni/economia/agnumb/umbmorto/umbmorto.html   (480 words)

  
 ajmerphull.com - web site of Ajmer Singh Phull
Umberto Agnelli was the youngest of seven children of a growing automobile dynasty.
Umberto grew up in the shadows of his stylish, jet-setting playboy elder brother, Gianni.
Umberto's father died when he was 1 years old, his mother died when he was 11 years old and then his own son, Giovannino died, at the age of 33 with a rare cancer.
ajmerphull.com /blog/2004/05/umberto-agnelli.html   (236 words)

  
 Umberto Agnelli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Umberto Agnelli (Losanna, 1 novembre 1934 – Torino, 27 maggio 2004) è stato un imprenditore e dirigente sportivo italiano.
Umberto Agnelli era nato a Losanna in Svizzera, ultimo di sette fratelli, da Edoardo Agnelli e da Virginia Bourbon del Monte.
Laureatosi in Legge, Umberto diventa a neanche ventitré anni presidente della Juventus e nel 1959 viene eletto presidente della Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio.
www.tocatch.info /it/Umberto_Agnelli.htm   (347 words)

  
 motoring.co.za - End of era at Fiat as Umberto Agnelli dies
Agnelli, 69, died late on Thursday in a family villa on the outskirts of Turin less than three weeks after an announcement that he had cancer of the lymph nodes.
Umberto Agnelli was once considered open to the idea of selling Fiat's loss-making auto operations but he had a change of heart when he became chairman and pinned the company's future on the core businesses of car and truck manufacturing.
Umberto Agnelli's son Giovannino, who was being groomed to take over the family business, died in 1997 aged 33, also from cancer.
motoring.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2094400&fSectionId=753&fSetId=381   (1301 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Agnelli's brother to head Fiat
Umberto Agnelli, brother of legendary Fiat head Gianni, is expected to be named as the troubled group's next chairman later this week.
The death of Gianni Agnelli last month was greeted by an outpouring of national grief.
Umberto Agnelli, who is 68, heads the Agnelli family holding company IFI and IFIL, which control Fiat with a stake of 30%.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/2799553.stm   (477 words)

  
 CNN.com - Agnelli family names Fiat CEO - Feb. 27, 2003
Agnelli -- whose older brother, Fiat patriarch Gianni, died last month -- will take Fiat's helm from Paolo Fresco, who on Tuesday said he would retire early to help smooth out a restructuring at the loss-mired Italian energy-to-insurance group.
Agnelli and Morchio will have to steer Fiat through asset sales, a possible capital increase and tense negotiations with partner General Motors Corp. (GM) over its struggling car arm.
Agnelli last year said he could imagine a future Fiat without cars but has since pledged to revive the historic unit.
www.cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/02/27/fiat/index.html   (664 words)

  
 Umberto Agnelli has died - Juventuz Forums
Umberto Agnelli, the brother of Gianni Agnelli died a few hours ago.
After the demise of the Avvocato, Umberto Agnelli's death marks the end of an era for Juventus, the Fiat group and the whole city of Turin.
Juventus is still owned by the Agnelli family and there are still quite a few of the old ones alive (their sister Susanna for example) and hopefully a new generation coming up (John Elkan's name has been mentioned, but he's still very young).
www.juventuz.com /forum/showthread.php?t=6624   (497 words)

  
 Fiat Chairman Umberto Agnelli dies - Sify.com
Umberto Agnelli, the chairman of Italian car manufacturer Fiat, has died after a battle against cancer, Italian police said on Friday.
Agnelli, 69, took over the top job last year shortly after his elder brother Gianni died.
Umberto Agnelli was once considered open to the idea of selling Fiat's money-losing auto operations but he shifted direction after taking over and pinned the company's future on the core auto and truck manufacturing businesses.
sify.com /finance/fullstory.php?id=13485596   (165 words)

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