Adriano Olivetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adriano Olivetti

Italian businessman

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1901

Place of Birth: Ivrea, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1960

Profession: businessperson, engineer, politician, entrepreneur

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Adriano Olivetti (born 11 April 1901 in Ivrea, Piedmont, died 27 February 1960 on a train from Milan to Lausanne) was an Italian engineer, politician and industrialist whose entrepreneurial activity thrived on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society.
He was son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti, and Luisa Revel, the daughter of a prominent Waldensian pastor and scholar.
Adriano Olivetti was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers. Olivetti was an entrepreneur and innovator who transformed shop-like operations into a modern factory.
In and out of the factory, he both practiced and preached the utopian system of "the community movement," but he never managed to build a mass following.
In his company, apart managers and technicians, he enrolled a large number of artists like writers and architects, following his deep interest in design and urban and building planning that were closely linked with his personal utopistic vision. The Olivetti empire had been begun by his father Camillo.
Initially, the "factory" (consisting of 30 workers) concentrated on electric measurement devices.
By 1908, 25 years after Remington in the United States, Olivetti started to produce typewriters.