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Italy Veneto

How the family-owned businesses in Italy's Veneto region are reaching out to the rest of the world despite the economic turmoil at home.

Veneto in northern Italy is a region just north of Venice and was largely agricultural until after World War II. In the past 30 years or so Veneto has seen the creation of many small family-owned businesses who have found export markets outside Italy. In the past few years they have struggled with the country’s economic and political crises, but lots are still hanging on. Peter Day talks to some of them and asks how the have survived.

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29 minutes

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Mon 31 Mar 2014 03:32GMT

Contributors to this programme

Paulo Bordin – Student Ca’ Foscari University 

Guido Mantovani - professor of banking and finance at Ca’ Foscari University 

Guiseppe Milan - director general, Unindustria, Treviso 

Paulo Menuzzo - president, Came 

Elisa Menuzzo - director, Came 

Diletta Cigolini - co-ordinator “in Oltre” help-line 

Franco Lorenzon - local secretary general, CISL Union, Treviso and Belluno 

Mario Moretti  Polegato - founder and chairman, Geox 

Domenico  Scimone - general manager, Carpene Malvolti 

Bruno Vianello - founder and president,  Texa

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  • Sun 30 Mar 2014 10:32GMT
  • Sun 30 Mar 2014 23:32GMT
  • Mon 31 Mar 2014 03:32GMT

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