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...Pietro Giuliani, Azimut chairman, rejected the criticism....
...I’ll often meet Franco Fusignani, CEO of Benetti, for a big lunch in Viareggio, where we both have yards. We’ve had very productive meetings over simple grilled fish at Trattoria la Darsena....
...This was a Walser hamlet, in use at least as early as 1323, but it has been reimagined as a luxury retreat by Paolo Vitelli, founder of yachtmaker Azimut Benetti....
...It is a sign of the Azimut Benetti group’s popularity among owners that when Paolo Vitelli, the company’s president and founder, held a party in Capri in the spring, some 700 guests turned up to celebrate...
...Benetti, and you have the Hotellerie de Mascognaz....
...Giovanni Tamburi, himself a yacht enthusiast, has joined the Azimut Benetti board....
...Azimut/Benetti, also of Italy, had more orders under construction than any other company, accounting for a quarter of total metres under construction in the country....
...year’s earnings at online FinecoBank and 18 times at private bank Banca Generali — with its 37 per cent return on equity — to 14 times at financial services group Mediolanum and 15 at pure asset manager Azimut...
...It is a 1963 Benetti Dolphin named BSK after my three children – Blu, 19, Sky, 16, and Kim, 13 – and we’ve visited the islands of Italy, as well as the area around St Tropez and Monte Carlo....
...Created by Paolo Vitelli, owner of luxury yacht brand Azimut-Benetti, in winter it can be reached only by a 10-minute snowmobile ride or a “snowcat” ride from Champoluc....
...The hotel will add three more restaurants to the port’s collection plus a spa, whose wellness programme will run throughout the winter....
...This ship comes from the Vitelli family-owned Azimut Benetti Group....
...Azimut Yachts, part of the Azimut Benetti Group, is committing €29m over three years, shifting its production from Turkey and Piacenza to its main site in Avigliana....
...Some asset managers, such as Azimut, Arca and Pioneer, have already rolled out fixed income mini-bonds but Mr Siniscalco is keen to see the industry throw its weight behind the marketing of these products...
...Azimut-Benetti, which already makes smaller vessels in Turkey, plans to open a factory in Brazil....
...It was a similar story in Milan as Azimut Holding, Italy’s largest independent fund manager, sank 7.1 per cent to €7.25 while Intesa Sanpaolo fell 6 per cent to €2.42....
...A deposit paid for the initial work on the two boats - and which had been confiscated by the ministry - has been returned to Azimut-Benetti, one of Italy’s leading luxury yacht makers....
...“The growth of the past few years has been enormous and a sort of correction was necessary,” says Paolo Vitelli, founder and chairman of Italy’s Azimut-Benetti Group....
...“The amount of growth of recent years has been enormous and a sort of correction was necessary,” says Paolo Vitelli, chairman of Italy’s Azimut-Benetti Group....
...Azimut-Benetti of Italy, one of the world’s biggest makers of luxury boats, is planning a marketing drive in China in an effort to gain up to 10 per cent of its sales from the country in the next five years...
...Italian manufacturer Azimut-Benetti sold a 50ft Atlantis 50 for about $1.4m, and France’s Beneteau sold one of its flagship Lagoon 620 catamarans and secured orders for another 20 sailboats....
...Formerly a backwater for these products, Russia is now one of the fastest growing markets for Azimut-Benetti, a Turin-based company that Mr Vitelli started in 1969....
...Ferretti and Azimut-Benetti, two Italian makers of “super yachts” that can sell for more than €10m, have said sales of their top-end products are doing well, as have several luxury watch makers....
...Other makers of luxury boats, including Azimut-Bennetti of Italy, Lürssen of Germany, Sunseeker of the UK and Trinity Yachts of the US, also appear to be enjoying a boom in demand....
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