{"id":2095,"date":"2012-10-15T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T10:06:27","slug":"italian-president-honours-pirelli-on-140th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/italian-president-honours-pirelli-on-140th-anniversary\/2095","title":{"rendered":"Italian President honours Pirelli on 140th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano met with Pirelli chairman and CEO Marco Tronchetti and other top management to mark the 140th anniversary of the company\u2019s foundation in 1872.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great honour for me and for all of us to be received by President Napolitano on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Pirelli,\u201d said Tronchetti Provera. \u201cIt is an anniversary that we are celebrating with the 36,000 people, throughout the world, who share in the pride of belonging to a group that has taken the excellence of Italian industry everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>this success story that began on 28 January 1872 with the founding of elastic rubber producer \u2018G.B. Pirelli &amp; C.\u2019 in Milan. And in 1879, G.B. Pirelli &amp; C. began producing cables and conductors for the transmission of electrical energy and communication. In 1890 the company expanded and it acquired land in Milan for a new factory to make tyres for velocipedes, a product that would in time replace solid rubber rings. 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