The Candy group announces that Peppino Fumagalli, the Italian entrepreneur and innovator, founder of the Candy Group and inventor in 9 of the first Italian washing machine together with his father Eden and his brothers Niso and Enzo, passed away yesterday 86 March at the age of 1946. 'We remember him in the company with his words:' the task of a company is to 'work seriously, create intelligent products and sell them at an honest price' reads the communication from the Brugherio company. His vocation for work and for the company, underlines the note, led him to be always present even in the last few years in which he did not hold official positions.
He leaves his sons Beppe, managing director of Candy Group, and Aldo, business director Sector Washing Appliances and president of Candy Spa, who with his cousins Silvano and Maurizio (board members) are the third generation from Monza at the helm of a multinational today present all over the world. In 1994 he himself had described the generational change as follows: 'I handed over the keys to the company to my two children and three grandchildren, sons of Niso. I said: now, you go ahead. Just as my father did with us in 1970. Only when I did it did I understand what an act of great generosity my father had performed towards us.'
