Agnelli: Fighter, leader to the end.(Cover Story)(Giovanni Agnelli)(Obituary)

Automotive News Europe,  January, 2003  by Ciferri, Luca

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Byline: Luca Ciferri

Even in his final hours, Fiat group Honorary Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, 81, was trying to influence his family's hold on Fiat.

He died Friday after a long battle with prostate cancer, hours before a scheduled family-holding shareholders' meeting that was expected to confirm his younger brother Umberto as the family head. Giovanni knew he couldn't attend, but he drafted the guidelines for a ...

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