Benetton family’s business empire The Benetton family controls Edizione – one of Italy’s most significant business groups – with interests spanning infrastructure, catering, telecoms and finance as well as their well-known clothing brand Gilberto Benetton Co-founder of Benetton Group and Vice Chairman of Edizione, which has 30.25% stake in Atlantia Revenue by sector (2017) €12.113 billion Food, beverages €4,990m Clothing, textiles €1,366m Finance, other €53m Infrastructures and services for mobility €5,704m Atlantia (Sales breakdown by sector, 2017) Autostrade Italian motorways €3,708m 65% Italian airports €856m 15% Overseas motorways €627m 11% Overseas airports €285m 5% Other activities €228m 4% Autostrade 88% owned by Atlantia. Operates Morandi bridge in Genoa and around 3,000km – almost half – of Italy’s motorway network Sources: Profilo di Edizione, Financial Times Pictures: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS