In 1963, Cremonini opened, with his brother Giuseppe a small butcher's shop, the milestone of the pan-European Cremonini Group, with an annual turnover of meat products of $3.6 billion, and Marr, Italy's largest food-service distributor.
Cremonini was born in 1939, into a poor farming family near Modena, Italy. He studied farming in Bologna. On May 23 1994, the University of Bologna awarded him the honorary degree in Veterinary Medicine.
