fornovo – 07/05/2014 – THE PRINT
A life dedicated with passion and intelligence to innovation and the development of patents for medicines. At the age of 91, Alberto Sergio Aleotti, historic patron of the Menarini pharmaceutical group, died this morning in Florence.
In Menarini since 1964, Aleotti, Cavaliere del Lavoro, had left the leadership of the group to his children, Lucia, president, and Alberto Giovanni, vice president a few years ago.
Aleotti was also president of Farmindustria. And the trade association of the pharmaceutical sector which today remembers him thus: «With the Cavaliere del Lavoro Alberto Aleotti Italy loses an extraordinary industrialist who has been able to achieve goals of absolute importance for the growth of his group and of the entire pharmaceutical sector ».
Born on 4 March 1923 in Quattro Castella in Reggio Emilia into a poor family, he lost his father at the age of 8. Thanks to his mother and excellent grades, he graduated in accountancy at 19. And at 23, while working, he graduated in Economics and Commerce in Bologna. At the helm of Menarini since 1964, «he won the most important battle for the entire Italian pharmaceutical industry», recalls the group, promoting a tough dispute to obtain the possibility of patenting drugs, which in 1978 led to the sentence with which the Consulta declared the ban in force in Italy unconstitutional. A success that in the same year led Aleotti to the presidency of Farmindustria and to his appointment as Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini.
Immediately after his diploma, Aleotti was employed in the municipal company `Farmacie Comunali Riunite&
