È disappeared yesterday evening Francesco Canella, founder of the chain Ali supermarkets and among the most esteemed business captains in the Northeast.
The entrepreneur from Padua had recently turned 92 and in his long life he created from scratch one of the most important large-scale retail businesses in the Northeast.
Zaia: “Veneto loses a brilliant man”
Starting from a simple shop boy at the outlet of the Opera Nazionale Assistenza Religiosa e Morale Operaia in Padua, as in the most classic entrepreneurial success story of the Veneto, over time he built a giant of 117 supermarkets with almost 5 thousand employees. «With Francesco Canella the Veneto loses one of its greatest entrepreneurs of food, but not only, loses a brilliant man, good, sensitive, who has dedicated important parts of his life as a man and as an entrepreneur to volunteering, to charity, to supporting his Veneto in crisis situations, as in 2018, when he launched a large fundraiser among the customers of his supermarkets to help the territories devastated by the bad weather of the time with an extraordinary outcome, or when he made important donations he donated to the Padua hospital in the Covid period", he recalls Luca Zaia, governor of Veneto.
