Italian industrialists are about to choose Carlo Bonomi's successor at the head of Confindustria, their association. There are four candidates: Emanuele Orsini, Edoardo Garrone, Antonio Gozzi and Alberto Marenghi. There are those who hope for a test of compactness, for a single candidate, (it had happened, for example, with Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and with Emma Marcegaglia), but for this round it seems difficult that they could converge on a single name. Instead, it is more likely that the final outcome could be a two-way challenge. Emanuele Orsini, outgoing vice president, born in 1973, is an entrepreneur in wood construction with Sistem Costruzioni and in the food industry. Banker Carlo Messina, CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo, has also set his sights on him. Then there is a Ligurian derby between Sole 24 Ore President Edoardo Garrone, 1961, a shareholder in ERG, and Federacciai President Antonio Gozzi, 1954, a shareholder in Duferco. Finally, in the running is Alberto Marenghi, for the past four years vice-president of Confindustria with the delegation for organization, development and marketing: a Mantuan, born in 1976, a family of entrepreneurs for seventeen generations, he heads the historic Cartiera Mantovana founded in 1615, and is founder of Cartiera Galliera and Sumus Italia.
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