Trapani has eschewed the temptation to follow other purveyors of luxury goods down the catwalk.
If the glitterati would no longer visit Bulgari there, Trapani would take his wares to them.
"Profits and exposure of the brand name as a promoter of good Italian products, " says Trapani.
So, if the glitterati were no longer visiting Bulgari, Trapani would take his wares to them.
"Profits and exposure of the brand as a promoter of good Italian products, " says Trapani.
The fact that LVMH allows holdings to develop individually was also appealing, Trapani said.
Then along came Trapani, who wields a really big stick in the world of online productivity tools.
Final design decisions are made either by Trapani or his uncles, Paolo (the chairman) and Nicola (vice chairman).
But since then Trapani has dived into perfumes (1992), scarves and ties (1997), leather bags, belts and eyewear (1998).
The investigation, which began in 2009, is linked to sub-contracts awarded to build energy farms near Agrigento, Palermo and Trapani.
Trapani, who studied business at New York University, worked for his uncle, Gianni, who was chairman of Bulgari at the time.
Perhaps wisely avoiding the temptation to follow other luxury goods makers into fashion, Trapani has been bolder in making outside investments.
Trapani will join the LVMH executive committee and manage the LVMH watches and jewelry division during the second half of 2011.
Since then, however, Trapani has dived into perfumes (1992), scarves and ties (1997), leather bags and belts (1998) and eyewear (also 1998).
Trapani believes that East Asia continues to be a land of opportunity.
Watches have contributed a steady 40% of revenue since Trapani took over.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gina Trapani.
At the very least, says app maker and former Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani, ladies will be turned off by particularly brotastic tech companies.
Final decisions about the look of a piece is made either by Trapani or his uncles, Paolo Bulgari (the chairman) and Nicola (the vice chairman).
In Trapani's first five years in charge, he reorganized the business.
Pier Luigi Bersani, the man most likely to be the next prime minister, tells the story of Giuseppe Burgarella, an unemployed construction worker from Trapani in Sicily.
Despite the family connection, Trapani's rise was not smooth.
So Trapani is beefing up displays in all stores and reaching out discretely, but persistently, to a smallish circle of prospects, sometimes sending his emissaries by private jet to offer exclusive showings of new pieces.
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Bulgari's Francesco Trapani took this competition a step further in 2001 when he commissioned Fay Weldon, a well-regarded British novelist, to write The Bulgari Connection, a novel about a woman jailed for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife.
Trapani took the reins in 1984 at the age of 27, after his uncle Gianni , then chief executive, decided to sell his shares and leave the company after a tiff with his brothers over how the firm should be run.
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