Anacleto Angelini

Anacleto Angelini ( born January 17, 1914 in Ferrara, † August 28, 2007 in Santiago de Chile) was an Italian- Chilean entrepreneurs. He was one of the richest men in Chile; the details of his assets fluctuate between 3.7 and six billion U.S. dollars at the time of his death.

Origin

Angelinis father emigrated in 1936 as a businessman in the conquered with his three sons under Mussolini and the Colony declared Ethiopia. After the Second World War, the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie with British support, won back the power, turned the Angelinis back to Italy. Anacleto emigrated to Chile from 1948.

Entrepreneurship in Chile

With its capital brought with it yet founded in the year of his arrival, together with other immigrants a paint factory, Pinturas Tajamar, soon afterwards, together with the Italians also emigrated Antonio Francini the construction company Francini y Angelini.

In 1953 he took over in Arica by an Italian small fishing companies Eperva, which he ran successfully. He subsequently expanded its activities in this field of business and sold his share of the construction company. Society as Indo y Eperva soon became the largest fishing company in South America through expansion and acquisitions. In fish processing, in particular, fishmeal production proved profitable business, because this product is used in those years in Chile rapidly growing broiler.

The group also grew under the Pinochet dictatorship more resistant and diversified its business. Indo y Eperva developed into a holding company that was active only to 20% in the fisheries sector in the 1980s. In the 1980s, Angelini reduced its exposure to the fishing and fish processing also due to increasing competition from Peru and the increased occurrence of adverse climatic events, especially El Niño. In the fishmeal production, however, the group Angelinis remained leader.

The activities Agnelinis widened since the 1980s, especially from the energy sector and the production of cellulose. 1985 and 1986 took over Angelinis group of companies 41% of the shares of Compañía de Petróleos de Chile ( Copec ), which is not only Chile's leading distributor of fuels and lubricants, but managed through its subsidiary Celulosa Arauco large areas of forest and pulp and paper mills operates. The company is regarded by critics as a leader in the deforestation of Chilean forests and fell repeatedly by water pollution in the headlines. Even in the areas of financial services, insurance, mining, shipbuilding and maritime transport its holding is active today Antar Chile SA means and is one of the largest companies in Latin America. His shares in Chilean energy companies came Angelini from around the turn of the millennium, as urged foreign companies as investors on the domestic market.

Later years

In 1994, Angelini received the Chilean citizenship by decree of President Eduardo Frei Ruiz - Tagle. Angelini leaves no children; his successor in the corporate group and Copec is his nephew Roberto Angelini Rossi. Angelini lived in seclusion and only occurred very rarely in public and in the press.