Esselunga

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title: "Esselunga" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["companies-of-italy", "retail-companies-of-italy", "retail-companies-established-in-1957", "supermarkets-of-italy", "companies-based-in-milan", "italian-companies-established-in-1957"] description: "Italian retail chain" topic_path: "geography/italy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esselunga" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Esselunga
logo	Logo Esselunga.gif
logo_size	200px
type	Società per azioni
foundation	1957
location_city	Limito di Pioltello (MI)
location_country	Italy
locations	160 points of sale
area_served	Emilia Romagna
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardy
Piedmont
Tuscany
Veneto
key_people	Bernardo Caprotti (founder)
industry	Retail
products	Food and consumer goods
revenue	€ 7.75 billion (2017)
num_employees	23,094 (2017)
homepage	www.esselunga.it
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|name= Esselunga |logo=Logo Esselunga.gif |logo_size=200px |type= Società per azioni |genre= |foundation= 1957 |founder= |location_city= Limito di Pioltello (MI) |location_country=Italy |locations= 160 points of sale |area_served = Emilia Romagna Lazio Liguria Lombardy Piedmont Tuscany Veneto |key_people= Bernardo Caprotti (founder) |industry= Retail |products= Food and consumer goods |revenue= € 7.75 billion (2017) |num_employees= 23,094 (2017) |homepage= www.esselunga.it Esselunga S.p.A. is an Italian retail store chain. Founded in 1957 by Nelson Rockefeller, Bernardo, Guido and Claudio Caprotti, Marco Brunelli, the Crespi family and other Italian associates, the company is now entirely owned by the Caprotti family through Supermarkets Italiani S.p.A. The store's name literally means "long S". Esselunga stores are located in the regions of Lombardy, Tuscany, Piedmont, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia Romagna and Lazio, with a large majority (over 100) located in Lombardy, specifically in and around Milan. Many of the larger stores also host coffee bars, named "Bar Atlantic".

History

As of 2023, the company had over 25,000 employees and an €8.8 billion turnover. Esselunga controls about 8.3% of the Italian grocery distribution market, according to figures from 2021. It is ranked as the fourth most profitable company in the Italian supermarket sector. Until 1999, Esselunga owned a share of the Italian branch of Penny Market (a REWE group company).

It was the first supermarket chain in Italy to introduce on-line shopping and self-produced organic products.

Esselunga was entirely owned by Bernardo Caprotti until his death in 2016. In his will, Caprotti left 66.7% of Esselunga to his second wife Giuliana Albera and their daughter Marina Sylvia, and 16.7% to each of his children from his first marriage, his son Giuseppe Caprotti and his daughter Violetta.

Many of the stores owned by the chain were designed by famous architects such as Ignazio Gardella, Vico Magistretti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Mario Botta.

References

Sources

References

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2. "Punti Vendita {{!}} Esselungajob".
3. "Punti Vendita".
4. "Bar Atlantic: un'esperienza unica di gusto e relax {{!}} Esselunga".
5. "Esselunga Financial Information".
6. "Italian Grocery Report".
7. "La nostra storia".
8. (2012-12-13). "Caprotti dynasty, segreti e liti". l'Espresso.
9. Filippo, Astone. (2009). "Affari di Famiglia, fatti e misfatti della nuova generazione di padroni". Longanesi.
10. "The World's Billionaires: Bernardo Caprotti".
11. (2016-10-11). "Esselunga, the disputed legacy of the Italian retail giant".
12. "Architettura".

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