Formed in the aftermath of the Second World War, on 12 May 1945, the Employers’ Association of the Province of Alessandria was one of the first to be set up in Italy following the war, but can boast of even more distant origins, going back to 1903 – the period of the first industrial associations.
The Employers’ Association of the Province of Alessandria, a territorial association of the Italian Manufacturers’ Association, currently has approximately 500 member companies employing more than 27,000 people.
The first president, who held the post for over a decade, was Giuseppe Giraudi then, from 1956, he was followed by: Mariano Dellepiane, Wilmer Graziano, Elio Camagna, Aldo Lucini, Angelo Venezia, Piergiacomo Guala, Franco Buzzi, Edoardo Vitale Cesa, Luigi Paglieri, Arturo Sutter, Giancarlo Cerutti, Vittorio Ghisolfi and Piero Martinotti (the current president).
For the many vicissitudes and the particular references that concern the century-old representation of the companies of this province (which, until 1936, included also what is today the province of Asti), please refer to the “Piccola Storia dell’Unione Industriale della Provincia di Alessandria 1945-1995 – con antecedenti al 1903”, published for the first half century of the Association and written by L. Mariotti and G. Subbrero.