Francesco Illy
Francesco Illy | |
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CEO Illycaffé | |
| Spouse | Vittoria |
| Children | Ernesto Hedda |
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| Relatives | Riccardo Illy (grandson) Andrea Illy (grandson) |
Francesco Illy (
Biography
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Illy was born to a middle-class family in
After the war and the Treaty of Trianon, he stayed with his sister in Trieste, where he soon married a Triestine woman. He found work with companies dealing with cocoa and coffee roasting. He later invented his own method for maintaining the quality of freshly roasted coffee, so it could be delivered to other locations rather than roasting it on site. He formed a partnership with the local coffee manufacturers Hausbrandt. He met Vittoria Berg, a piano teacher of Italian-Irish origin, and soon married her. They had two children.
In 1933 Illy founded
His son, the food chemist Ernesto Illy (1925–2008) took over the management of the coffee company, which is now in the hands of the third generation Illys.[3]
References
- ^ Stein, Nicholas (9 December 2009). "Crisis in a Coffee Cup". Fortune magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
- ^ Tagliabue, John (26 December 2006). "Coffeehouses as Fashion Boutiques; Selling Cachet by the Cup". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
- ^ https://www.ujsagmuzeum.hu/illy-ferenc/
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