Marco Ajmone-Marsan
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Marco Ajmone-Marsan (1859–1918 in
Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
) was an Italian businessman.


Biography

He was born in Crosa,
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, but moved at an early age to
Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
, where he started his business at age 18 opening a small shirts warehouse. Later, his company – specialized in the production of handkerchiefs – grew rapidly, counting more than 200 weaving looms. His business activity was successful to such a great extent that it was even able to beat the competition of British manufacturing enterprises in a quite short time. He married Maria Aimone, by whom he had three children: Riccardo, Alessandro and Annibale. All three were
Juventus Juventus Football Club (; from , ), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Turin, Piedmont, who compete in Serie A, the ...
players in the early 20th century. In 1904 he revived the finances of the football club Juventus, making it also possible to transfer the training field from Piazza d'Armi to the more appropriate Velodrome Umberto I. Marco Ajmone-Marsan was awarded the title of Knight of Labour on 9 January 1916.Marco Ajmone-Marsan
Elenco alfabetico dei Cavalieri del Lavoro della Federazione Nazionale Cavalieri del Lavoro


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* 1859 births 1918 deaths Businesspeople from Turin {{Italy-business-bio-stub