Luigi Cremonini Net Worth

Luigi Cremonini has an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion, according to Forbes World's Billionaires List 2026, Luigi Cremonini profile (figures as of Forbes World's Billionaires List 2026). That is down from a peak of $2.4 billion.

Luigi Cremonini is an Italian businessman and the founder and chairman of Cremonini SpA and Inalca SpA, one of Europe's largest meat processing groups. He was born in 1939 into a poor farming family in Savignano sul Panaro, a village near Modena, and studied farming in Bologna.

He is married with four children and lives in Modena. He received Italy's Order of Merit for Labour in 1985, and in May 1994 the University of Bologna awarded him an honorary degree in veterinary medicine. He was a board member of Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna until 2013 and is honorary president of the ItalAfrica Centrale chamber of commerce.

An art lover, Cremonini owns a large collection of paintings. He financed the archaeological excavation and museum of the Cremonini Space at the Trevi, completed in 2009, in the Vicus Caprarius area near the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

How Luigi Cremonini made his money

At 19 he opened a pig farm. In 1963 he and his brother Giuseppe opened a small butcher shop, the start of the Cremonini Group, and in 1966 he founded Inalca, which specialized in butchering. Beginning in the late 1970s he diversified into cured meats, distribution and catering, and within a decade he had taken the business international.

In the 1980s he founded the Burghy fast food chain, which he sold to McDonald's in 1996 in exchange for Inalca supplying beef to the American chain. Today Inalca supplies hamburger meat to McDonald's and Burger King in Italy and other countries. The group also owns the Roadhouse Grill restaurant chain, founded in 2001, and its Chef Express arm sells food on trains in Europe, including the Eurostar between London and Paris. Cremonini Group employs more than 19,500 people and had $5.6 billion in revenue in 2022.

How Forbes has valued Luigi Cremonini

Forbes valued Cremonini at $1.7 billion in 2018, $1.5 billion in 2019 and $1.6 billion in 2020. His figure rose to $2.4 billion in 2021, then dropped to $1.2 billion in 2022.

After a year off the list, he returned at $1 billion in 2024 and 2025. On the 2026 World's Billionaires List he was valued at $1.1 billion, the latest Forbes figure for him. His figure rests on the value of the private family group.