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ITALIAN PRIDE

Back in 1976, a 29 year old Italian craftsman designer Pierino Persico set up a company destined to make history in a sector that in that period was not in the founder’s mind at all: racing boats. Well from America Cup teams to Imoca ones and The Volvo Ocean Race, right up to the Wally. The clients of this Nembro shipyard near Bergamo in north Italy represent the top end of the yachting world. We asked Marcello the founder’s son who has been at the helm of Persico Marine since 2009 how is it that this virtuous reality of Italian entrepreneurship has managed to earn respect enough in the difficult world of yachting to the

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