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Acqua Sant’Anna Founder and CEO Alberto Bertone Dies at 59

The company hailed a visionary who turned a Valle Stura startup into Italy’s leading mineral-water producer.

Overview

  • Acqua Sant’Anna announced Bertone’s death on Tuesday at age 59, without disclosing a cause.
  • Founded in 1996, the business grew under his leadership into a national market leader in bottled mineral water.
  • The Sant’Anna di Vinadio plant reached about 20 million bottles per day in capacity and employs more than 130 people.
  • Bertone was born in Moncalieri in 1966, held a political science degree, had two children, and lost his partner Roberta Ruffino in 2016.
  • A late-October hearing in a criminal defamation case involving him was postponed for health reasons.