ANCONA (ITALPRESS) – Engineer Francesco Merloni, honorary chairman of Ariston Group, has died at the age of 99 at his home in Fabriano, Ancona. A company note reported. “Entrepreneur and Cavaliere del Lavoro, Francesco Merloni,” the company recalls, “was one of the protagonists of Italian industry who, picking up the legacy of his father Aristide, dedicated his career to the international development of the family business. Alongside his work as an entrepreneur, Merloni was also involved in politics with the Christian Democrats. Elected for seven terms in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, from 1972 to 2001, he served as a member of parliament in the Commission for Productive Activities and the bicameral Commission for Industrial Reconversion and State Holdings. In 1992 he was appointed minister of Public Works in the Amato government, to be reappointed in 1993 in the Ciampi government. With the so-called “Merloni Law,” he promoted a radical reform of the public procurement system.
He was also president and co-founder of AREL, the Agency for Research and Legislation, and president of the Aristide Merloni Foundation, the Institute for the Economic and Social Development of the Apennines in the Marche region, which gives expression to his attachment to the territory and his philanthropic commitment to the welfare of communities.
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Entrepreneur and former minister Francesco Merloni has died.
