Filippo Marazzi
Filippo Marazzi, born in Sassuolo in 1949, is Chairman of the Board and President of Marazzi Group, the world leader in the design, manufacture and sales of ceramic tiles, with an increasing presence in other flooring materials and in bathroom furnishings. He assumed this role in 1978 in consequence of the death of his father, Pietro Marazzi. In the early 1980s, he began the Group internationalisation process with the establishment of production facilities in Spain and in the United States by Marazzi Iberia S.A. and American Marazzi Tile Inc. This process has continued throughout the ‘90s by means of joint ventures, cooperative agreements, and acquisitions of important competitors in Spain, France, U.S.A., and Italy too, in a continuous progression of growth.
Today Filippo Marazzi is President of a Group that boasts manufacturing plants in Italy, France, Spain, Russia and the United States, over 6,000 employees, and an overall production of over 100 million square meters of ceramic tiles.
He is also Chairman of Finceramica, the joint stock company which is the majority shareholder of Fintiles, and of Fintiles, sole shareholder of Marazzi Group.
In February 1992, Filippo Marazzi was awarded the first honorary degree in chemistry granted by the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Natural Sciences of the University of Modena (Italy), for his “pioneering work in promoting the study and application of avant-garde ceramic materials and for his important scientific contribution to the development of a very important sector in solid-state chemistry”. In June 1995, Filippo Marazzi was given the honorary title of “Cavaliere del Lavoro” by the President of the Italian Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. In 2002, he received the Pico della Mirandola Prize in “recognition of one who, with passion, conviction and a spirit of self-sacrifice, throughout his business dealings supported an enterprise culture which promoted and consolidated the ‘Made in Italy’ label worldwide.
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