Venice

FB Roundup: Birkenstock, Tata Group, Las Vegas Sands

March 8, 2021

End of a 247-year era as Birkenstock sells control to Bernard Arnault, Tata Group finalising e-commerce BigBasket deal, Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands exits The Strip for Asia.

End of a 247-year era as Birkenstock sells control to Bernard Arnault

Germany’s sixth-generation Birkenstock family will sell a majority stake in its historic footwear business to the family interests of Bernard Arnault, principal of French luxury goods empire LVMH.

Hotel heirs keep style in the family

April 14, 2010

Matilde Salvo Bocca and brother Bernabò, second-generation co-owners of SINA Fine Italian Hotels restored and opened The Centurion Palace in Venice, adding it to the hotel empire began by their father, writes Margie Goldsmith

Matilde Salvo Bocca and brother Bernabò, second-generation co-owners of SINA Fine Italian Hotels, walk through the lobby of The Centurion Palace in Venice, built on ruins dating back to the Roman Emperor, writes Margie Goldsmith. They restored and opened the hotel in October 2009, adding it to the empire began by their father.