Luksic group

Andrónico luksic abaroa
Luksic family
The son of immigrants, a Croatian father and Bolivian mother, Luksic Abaroa was born, raised, and educated in the northern city of Antofagasta.

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Big wines from a small country

Amongst the four wine regions of Slavonia & Danube, Central Croatia, Dalmatia and Istria & Kvarner, the latter is perhaps the one which has been most dynamic recently. This is best illustrated by the story of Giorgio Clai. It is now twelve years ago that the native Istrian gave up his restaurant "La Pergola" in Trieste in Italy to start afresh and try his luck as a winegrower in his home village of Krasica. The wines that Giorgio now pours into 20,000 to 25,000 bottles, depending on the year, are certainly "bastanza specifico", rather special, as the 56-year-old explains in Istrian-Venetian dialect.

The self-taught winemaker does almost everything exactly how it is not taught at wine-making school: He works bio-dynamically in the vineyard under strict observation of the phases of the moon, he cares by hand for his six grape varieties which are grown over seven hectares, and all of the grapes ferment spontaneously. Clai even sometimes leaves the white ones to macerate with their skins in wooden barrels over a period of several months.

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The Luksic family from Chile owns interests in mining, banking, manufacturing, shipping and beverage production. The family’s conglomerate, Grupo Quiñenco S.A., controls Argentina’s second-largest brewer, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A., and the Chilean banking industry leader, Banco de Chile. The conglomerate was founded by Andrónico Luksic in 1957. The Luksic family’s estimated net worth is $13.4 billion.

Andrónico entered Chile’s mining industry at a young age. He founded the Luksic Group to consolidate his copper mining concerns. Andrónico acquired a controlling interest in railway company Antofagasta in 1979, eventually extending its operations into the mining and finance sectors.

Following Andrónico’s death in 2005, his wife, Iris Fontbona, and their three sons assumed control of the family business.

Andrónico’s son, Andrónico Luksic Craig, serves as Quiñenco’s chairman, while brother Jean-Paul Luksic Fontbona chairs Antofagasta. The other brother, Guillermo Luksic Craig, controlled the family’s industrial interests until his death in 2013.

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternalsurname is Luksicand the second or maternal family name is Craig.

Andrónico Mariano Luksic Craig (born 16 April 1954) is a Chilean businessman and the chairman of Quiñenco, a subsidiary of the Luksic Group, one of Chile's largest conglomerates.^[1]^[2] He is the wealthiest individual in Chile according to Forbes.^[3]^[4]

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Andrónico Luksic Craig, the eldest son of Andrónico Luksic and Ena Craig, spent his early childhood years alongside his younger brother Guillermo in the mineral deserts of northern Chile. When Luksic was just four years old, his mother died during a heart operation. Fourteen years later, his father married Iris Fontbona, and together they had three children: María Paola, María Gabriela, and Jean-Paul.^{[citation needed]}

In 1960, the Luksic family relocated to Santiago. Luksic attended The Grange School before moving to the United States at the age of 16 to attend the Dublin School for Boys in New Hampshire. After graduating from high school, he relocated to B