{"id":320,"date":"2016-10-24T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.isb.edu\/centre-for-family-enterprise\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:42:23","slug":"italian-family-business-selling-stake-for-overseas-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.isb.edu\/centre-for-family-enterprise\/2016\/10\/24\/italian-family-business-selling-stake-for-overseas-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Family Business Selling Stake for Overseas Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Atlantia SpA is an Italian holding company, controlled by the Benetton family, whose primary asset is Autostrade per l&#8217;Italia, the Italian toll-road operator. The main business interests of Atlantia are in infrastructure. The company which has been so far concentrated on projects in Italy now wants to reduce its dependence on the country as per its Chief Executive Officer Giovanni Castellucci.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0In addition to highways in Italy, the division also owns assets in Brazil and Chile. Recently, Atlantia, which also controls Rome\u2019s two airports, led the consortium which agreed to buy 60 percent of France\u2019s third-biggest airport, Nice-Cote d\u2019Azur, for 1.2 billion euros. The Rome-base company also signed a deal to buy 21 percent of SAVE SpA, the company which runs Venice Airport.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Now in an effort to raise further funds for internationalisation the company is preparing to sell a minority stake in Autostrade. Autostarde is currently valued at about 15 billion euros ($16.5 billion). It represents about four-fifths of Atlantia\u2019s 18.6 billion-euro market value currently. Atlantia is expected to dispose of about 15 percent of Autostrade and raise 2.5 billion euros to help fund its overseas expansion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<i>Source: Bloomberg, October 18, 2016<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Atlantia SpA is an Italian holding company, controlled by the Benetton family, whose primary asset is Autostrade per l&#8217;Italia, the Italian toll-road operator. The main business interests of Atlantia are in infrastructure. 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