The Ferrero family is one of the richest and most influential families in Italy and the sole shareholder of the Ferrero Group. Ferrero Chocolate Group was founded in 1942 as a small candy factory. But at that time, raw materials were in short supply and difficult to obtain. Therefore, the founder Pietro Sr. had a brainwave and made hazelnut-flavored dessert by replacing expensive cocoa with locally rich hazelnuts. After Mitchell Ferriero, the second heir, took over, this dessert was continuously improved and became a hot chocolate in Kym today. But Mitchell's achievements go beyond that. He even developed the candy factory into a multinational enterprise. In addition to setting up factories in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia and Latin America, he also set up factories in backward areas such as South Africa and India to provide local people with job opportunities and use part of his income as medical and educational funds for poor children. Today, Ferriero Group has as many as 20,000 employees and 65,438+08 factories around the world, and its revenue in 2009 reached 6.6 billion euros (6,654.38 billion yuan). Mitchell 20 1 1 became the richest man in Italy, and Forbes ranked 3 1. The Li Ferrero family has always held 100% equity, and the family property is about $654.38+08 billion. In addition to Kym chocolate, the group's products include nutella hazelnut chocolate sauce introduced by 1964, Kinder and Tictac mints listed by 1968.