{"id":87263,"date":"2011-04-19T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=87263"},"modified":"2011-04-19T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:00:21","slug":"pietro-ferrero-heir-to-nutella-fortune-dies-while-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/19\/pietro-ferrero-heir-to-nutella-fortune-dies-while-cycling.html","title":{"rendered":"Pietro Ferrero, Heir to Nutella Fortune, Dies While Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pietro Ferrero, chief executive officer of the Ferrero group, maker of Nutella chocolate spread and Tic Tacs, and heir to Italy\u2019s biggest fortune, died of a suspected heart attack in South Africa. He was 47.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrero died while bicycling yesterday on a coastal road near Cape Town, during a break from a company meeting in South Africa. A passerby saw him fall off his bicycle, and he was declared dead of a suspected heart attack shortly after an ambulance arrived, Western Cape Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said in a telephone interview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-18\/pietro-ferrero-family-heir-ceo-dies-in-south-africa-accident.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bloomberg reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrero had co-run the sweets company with his younger brother Giovanni since 1997, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessday.co.za\/articles\/Content.aspx?id=140756\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>AFP reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their father Michele, 85, who turned the firm into a global leader of the confectionery industry after taking over in 1957, is still the chair \u2014 not to mention Italy\u2019s richest man according to the latest ranking by Forbes magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Pietro is survived by his wife and three children, newspaper la Repubblica said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pietro Ferrero, CEO of the Ferrero group, maker of Nutella chocolate spread and Tic Tacs, and heir to Italy\u2019s biggest&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25069,25143,25142,25144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}