Italian entrepreneur, one time owner of Bugatti and Lotus
Romano Artioli (born 5 December 1932, in Moglia)[1] is an Italian entrepreneur and one-time owner of Bugatti and Lotus automobile brands.
Artioli was born in Moglia in the Province of Mantua. He was raised in Bolzano where in the 1980s he operated one of the largest Ferrari dealerships in the world, selling in northern Italy and southern Germany.[2]
He also imported Japanese cars, owning Autoexpò which in 1982 became the first Italian importer of Suzuki.[3]
He was encouraged by Ferruccio Lamborghini and Paolo Stanzani to establish Bugatti International, a holding company that bought the Bugatti trademark name in 1987 with Jan K Breitfeld as President of the holding.
Artioli became chairman of Bugatti Automobili S.p.A., which made the Bugatti EB 110 between 1991 and 1995.
In 1993, his wife Renata Kettmeir formed the Bolzano-based Ettore Bugatti luxury item maker, also using the Bugatti "EB" logo. Their involvement ended in September 1995 due to bankruptcy,[4] and the company was eventually bought by Volkswagen in April 1998. Prior to the sale to Volkswagen, private equity investor CVC attempted a purchase of Bugatti via UK corporate finance advisor Anglo American Ventures, however the £100m deal failed at due diligence stage.
Artioli purchased Lotus from General Motors in August 1993 and became its chairman until 1996 when he stepped down to be Special Projects director until 1998.
He sold a majority stake to Proton in 1996 to fund his losses due to the insolvency of Bugatti.
His daughter Elena Artioli (born 1970) is a politician for the South Tyrolean People's Party and
Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol.[5]
The Lotus Elise was named after Romano Artioli's granddaughter Elisa Artioli.
^Paolo Artemi, Bugatti, la fabbrica di sogni in Corriere della Sera (Dec 28, 1993)
RomanoArtioli (born 5 December 1932, in Moglia) is an Italian entrepreneur and one-time owner of Bugatti and Lotus automobile brands. Artioli was born...
period of financial instability, it was bought by General Motors, then RomanoArtioli, and then DRB-HICOM through its subsidiary Proton, who owned Lotus from...
1977. Italian entrepreneur RomanoArtioli acquired the Bugatti brand in 1987, and established Bugatti Automobili S.p.A.. Artioli commissioned architect Giampaolo...
example completed in 2019. It was the only production model made by RomanoArtioli's Italian incarnation of Bugatti. Development of the EB 110 started in...
costs to a minimum. The Elise was named after Elisa Artioli, the granddaughter of RomanoArtioli who was chairman of Lotus and Bugatti at the time of...
former employees of the Bugatti firm when it was under the leadership of RomanoArtioli. B Engineering is the company behind the super-exclusive Edonis supercar...
1913 Absorbed by Chevrolet in 1913. UK Lotus 1948 1948 1986 Sold to RomanoArtioli 1993 Currently owned by Geely US Marquette (1) 1909 1909 1909 Discontinued...
limited edition of 800 Series 2 (S2) M100 Elans was released during the RomanoArtioli era (produced June 1994–September 1995) when it was discovered that...
Holdings S.A. of Luxembourg, a company controlled by Italian businessman RomanoArtioli, then also the owner of Bugatti. By 2003, Proton's stake in Lotus was...
over the design and naming rights to Bugatti from Italian businessman RomanoArtioli, who built supercars (such as the EB 110 and EB 112) with Bugatti SpA...
aerodynamics of the motorcycles. At the end of 1991, he was contacted by RomanoArtioli to take over the Bugatti EB110 project, which was in serious difficulty...
Fiore separated from Citroën. In 1991 he was briefly associated with RomanoArtioli's newly founded company Bugatti Automobili, but was unable to influence...
Holdings S.A. of Luxembourg, a company controlled by Italian businessman RomanoArtioli, who also owned Bugatti Automobili SpA. In 1996, a majority share in...
organizational and technological projects. [1] In 1987, together with the dealer RomanoArtioli, he rebirth the Bugatti brand, founding Bugatti Automobili SpA in Campogalliano...
year, the cars continued to be sold for several more years. In 1995, RomanoArtioli's Bugatti Automobili SpA went bankrupt and the company was eventually...
Hemp In Their Teeth, Archaeologists Discover". Forbes. 30 August 2018. Artioli D., Fugazzola Delpino M.A., Giuliani M.R., Guida G., and Salerno A. (29...
dalle chiese della legazione di Urbino e Pesaro (in Italian). Modena: Artioli. ISBN 978-8877920881. Goff, Alice (2018). "The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian...
Sources chrétiennes: Edizione italiana (in Italian). Vol. 4. Translated by Artioli, Maria Benedetta. Rome: Edizioni San Clemente. p. 32. ISBN 978-8870946345...
Maria Marta Sampietro Vattuone; Mark Aldenderfer; Sonia Archila; Gilberto Artioli; Martin T. Bale; Timothy Beach; Ferran Borrell; Todd Braje; Philip I. Buckland;...
Maria Marta Sampietro Vattuone; Mark Aldenderfer; Sonia Archila; Gilberto Artioli; Martin T. Bale; Timothy Beach; Ferran Borrell; Todd Braje; Philip I. Buckland;...
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