The General Confederation of Italian Industry (), commonly known as Confindustria, is the
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small, medium, and big enterprises federation, acting as a private and autonomous chamber of commerce, founded in 1910. The association network is made of 222 associations, bringing together more than 150,000 companies of all sizes on a voluntary basis, accounting for around 5,400,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members. It is a member of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE). The President is Emanuele Orsini since 23 May 2024.
Confindustria was a founding member of several organizations, including ISTUD (Istituto Studi Direzionali) and Assingegneria (an organization set up by Confindustria, which has since merged with OICE, L'ingegneria italiana organizzata - which in itself belongs to Confindustria).
Members of Confindustria include ANIMA, the Federation of the Italian Associations of Mechanical and Engineering Industries.
It owns the prominent newspaper . With local chapters all over Italy, it is popularly synonymous with Italian business.
Branches
These are the main branches of the Confindustria Association:
* ACIMAC
* ACIMALL
* ACIMGA
* ACIMIT
* AFI
* AGENS
* AICC
* AIE
* AIOP
* AISCAT
* AITEC
* AMAPLAST
* ANAV
* ANCE
* ANCIT
* ANEF
* ANEPLA
* ANFAO
* ANFIA
* ANIASA
* ANICA
* ANIE
* ANIMA
* ANICAV
* ANINSEI
* ANIP
* ANITA
* ANITEC - ASSINFORM
* ANPAM
* APA
* APPLIA Italia
* ASSAEROPORTI
* ASSALZOO
* ASSICA
* ASSISTAL
* ASSITOL
* ASSOBIBE
* ASSOBIRRA
* ASSOCALZATURIFICI ITALIANI
* ASSOCARNI
* ASSOCARTA
* ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA CONFINDUSTRIA ALBERGHI
* ASSONCONSULT
* ASSOCONTROL
* ASSOFOND
* ASSOGAS
* ASSOGRAFICI
* ASSOLATTE
* ASSOLOGISTICA
* ASSOMAC
* ASSOMET
* ASSONAVE
* ASSOPELLETTIERI
* ASSORISORSE
* ASSOSISTEMA
* ASSOSOFTWARE
* ASSOTTICA - ASSOMEP
* ASSOVETRO
* Assowedding&Luxury
* ASSTEL
* CISAMBIENTE
* CONFINDUSTRIA ANCMA
* Confindustria ASSOIMMOBILIARE
* Confindustria Ceramica
* Confindustria Dispositivi Medici
* Confindustria Federorafi
* Confindustria Federvarie
* Confindustria Intellect
* Confindustria Marmomacchine
* Confindustria Nautica
* Confindustria Radio Televisioni
* Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici
* Confitarma
* Elettricità Futura
* Farmindustria
* Federazione Gomma Plastica
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Federacciai
* Federchimica
* Federcostruzioni
* Federlegno-Arredo
* Federmeccanica
* Federpesca
* Federterme
* Federunacoma
* Federvini
* GIMAV
* ITALMOPA
* MINERACQUA
* OICE
* PROXIGAS
* SMI - Sistema Moda Italia
* UCIMA
* UCIMU
* UNEM
* UNIC
* UNIONE ITALIANA FOOD
Former Presidents
* Luigi Bonnefon (1910 – 1913)
* Ferdinando Bocca (1913 – 1918)
* Dante Ferraris (1918 – 1919)
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Giovanni Battista Pirelli (1919)
* Giovanni Silvestri (1919 – 1920)
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Ettore Conti
Ettore Conti, Count of Verampio Order of Merit for Labour, OML, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, OMRI, Order of the Crown of Italy, OCI (1871–1972, Milan, Kingdom of Italy) was an Italians, Italian senator, industrialist, and aristocrat. ...
(1920 – 1921)
* Raimondo Targetti (1922 – 1923)
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Antonio Stefano Benni
Antonio Stefano Benni (18 April 1880 – 27 December 1945) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician who served as President of the General Confederation of Italian Industry from 1923 until 1934.
Biography
His father, a financial intendant, di ...
(1923 – 1934)
* Alberto Pirelli (1934)
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Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata
Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata (19 November 1877 – 16 November 1947) was an Italian businessman and politician.
Count Volpi developed utilities, which had brought electricity to Venice, northeastern Italy and the Balkans by 1903. Thi ...
(1934 – 1943)
* Giovanni Balella (1943)
* Giuseppe Mazzini (1943)
* Fabio Friggeri (1944 – 1945)
* Angelo Costa (1945 – 1955)
* Alighiero De Micheli (1955 – 1961)
* Furio Cicogna (1961 – 1966)
* Angelo Costa (1966 – 1970)
* Renato Lombardi (1970 – 1974)
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Gianni Agnelli
Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli (; 12 March 192124 January 2003), nicknamed ("The Lawyer"), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat S.p.A., Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial ...
(1974 – 1976)
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Guido Carli (1976 – 1980)
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Vittorio Merloni
Vittorio Merloni (30 April 1933 – 18 June 2016) was an Italian entrepreneur and industrialist. He was the honorary chairman of Indesit (chaired by his son Andrea Merloni) and Fineldo (chaired by his daughter Antonella), the family holding comp ...
(1980 – 1984)
* Luigi Lucchini (1984 – 1988)
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Sergio Pininfarina (1988 – 1992)
* Luigi Abete (1992 – 1996)
* Giorgio Fossa (1996 – 2000)
* Antonio D'Amato (2000 – 2004)
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Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (2004 – 2008)
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Emma Marcegaglia (2008 – 2012)
* Giorgio Squinzi (2012 – 2016)
* Vincenzo Boccia (2016 – 2020)
* Carlo Bonomi (2020 – 2024)
* Emanuele Orsini (2024 – present)
See also
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Economy of Italy
The economy of Italy is a highly developed social market economy. It is the third-largest national economy in the European Union, the 8th-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, and the 11th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP. The country has th ...
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List of national employers' federations
References
External links
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Official site - English overviewConfindustria and the Party System in Italy(PDF)
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Business organisations based in Italy
1910 establishments in Italy
Rome Q. XXXII Europa