Guido Barilla
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Guido Barilla

Italy 67 years old

Overview

Source of Wealth
Barilla pasta
Residence
Parma
Marital Status
Married

Biography

Guido Barilla is the chairman of Barilla, and the fourth-generation heir to the pasta fortune that he shares with his three billionaire siblings.

Barilla is the largest pasta company in the world with an estimated $4 billion in annual revenue.

Barilla has grown by acquiring companies in France, Turkey and Greece; it also has two pasta plants in the U.S.

The business was founded in 1877 in Parma, Italy.

The family sold out to American firm W.R. Grace in 1971 but Pietro Barilla, Guido's father, bought it back eight years later.