{"id":6294,"date":"2015-02-15T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2015-02-24T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:49:09","slug":"michele-ferrero-creator-of-nutella-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/15\/michele-ferrero-creator-of-nutella-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Ferrero, Creator of Nutella Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Michele Ferrero, Tycoon Who Gave the World Nutella, Dies at 89<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0HILARY STOUT<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michele Ferrero, widely regarded as the richest man in Italy and \u2014 a distinction more notable to lovers of sweets everywhere \u2014 the creator of Nutella, died on Saturday at his home in Monte Carlo. He was 89.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ferrero presided over a vast international confectionary empire; he was sometimes referred to as a real-life Willy Wonka. He ranked 22nd on the most recent Forbes list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $26.5 billion. The magazine stated the source of his wealth simply: \u201cchocolates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, it was more than chocolates; Ferrero products include fruity and minty Tic Tacs, as well as Ferrero-Rocher candies and Kinder snacks. The company, which Mr. Ferrero\u2019s father, Pietro, started in a Piedmont pastry shop in the 1940s, grew under the younger Mr. Ferrero\u2019s leadership into a worldwide powerhouse, rivaling Mars, Nestl\u00e9 and Hershey. Its sales in 2014 totaled about $10 billion.<\/p>\n

It was Nutella, a thick spread of chocolate and hazelnut, that truly captivated the world\u2019s taste buds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld\u2019s flags should be at half-mast: Nutella owner has died,\u201d read one of the many posts on Twitter after Mr. Ferrero\u2019s death \u2014 which poetically enough came on Valentine\u2019s Day \u2014 was reported.<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Michele Ferrero, Tycoon Who Gave the World Nutella, Dies at 89 By\u00a0HILARY STOUT Michele Ferrero, widely regarded as the richest man in Italy and \u2014 a distinction more notable to lovers of sweets everywhere \u2014 the creator of Nutella, died on Saturday at his home in Monte Carlo. He was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}