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2 unusual facts about Benetton


Benetton

Benetton Formula, a Formula One constructor which became Renault F1 in 2002

Benetton family, the family who were responsible for the brand's creation


1989 Formula One season

Benetton retained Alessandro Nannini and replaced Thierry Boutsen with British rookie Johnny Herbert who was eventually replaced by McLaren test driver Emanuele Pirro (Herbert had not fully healed from his 1988 Formula 3000 crash at Brands Hatch and needed more recovery time).

1991 British Grand Prix

Elsewhere Tom Walkinshaw had bought a 35% stake in the Benetton team, but the driver line-ups were unchanged from the previous race.

1991 Portuguese Grand Prix

The top ten was rounded out by Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Maurício Gugelmin, Pierluigi Martini, Ivan Capelli, and Michael Schumacher, the Benetton team a little off their usual pace.

1994 Australian Grand Prix

Hill was catching Schumacher when the Benetton driver went off the track at the East Terrace corner, hitting a wall with his right side wheels before pulling back onto the track.

1997 German Formula Three season

Opel Team BSR driver Nick Heidfeld won the championship title after a title battle with Benetton RTL Junior's Timo Scheider.

2001 Formula One season

The next round was in Italy, the first race after the September 11 attacks and before the race Michael Schumacher wanted all the drivers to go slowly at the first corner, due to 9/11 and a horrific accident in ChampCar the day before in which former F1 driver Alex Zanardi suffered serious injuries but this plan did not work out because Jacques Villeneuve and Benetton boss Flavio Briatore did not accept it.

Aija Bārzdiņa

Aija has enjoyed lucrative contracts with many high-profile Italian plus-size clothing manufacturers such as Miroglio, Benetton, Gianfranco Ferré, Mariella Burani, Yamamay, Liu Jo, Sonia Fortuna, Mariagrazia Severi and has also appeared on the runway for Elena Miro (Miroglio) in Milan, Italy from 2004 till nowadays.

Alessandro Benetton

Alessandro Benetton is the Chairman of Benetton Group S.p.A. and member of the board of Edizione Srl, the holding of the Benetton family, and Autogrill.

Benetton Group

On November 17, 2011 The Vatican announced that it would take legal action against Benetton after the company used a photo purportedly showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing Ahmed Mohamed el Tayeb, the imam of the Al Azhar mosque in Egypt.

Benetton Treviso

Pallacanestro Treviso, a basketball club usually referred to as Benetton Treviso by basketball media in the English-speaking world

Brand piracy

Benetton, Levi Strauss & Co. and Lacoste have all been victims of counterfeiting in which the label has been altered of an obviously inferior product.

Charles Scribner's Sons Building

Declining business forced the Scribner's Bookstore to relocate to a lower-rent district in New York before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. The building has subsequently housed Brentano's bookstore, a Benetton clothing store, and presently Sephora, a cosmetics retailer.

Eihi Shiina

She got her first big break in 1995, working for Benetton, after which she represented Japan at the global Elite Model Look '95.

Giulio Mazzarini

After graduating in Sociology, he deepened the studies of Visual Communication and Photography, thanks also to one of his lecturers, the former Benetton photographer and Creative Director Oliviero Toscani.

High Street Phoenix

High Street Phoenix (HSP) has more than 500 stores, premium (including Ermenegildo Zegna, Canali, Bally Shoe, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce Vita, Emporio Armani, Jimmy Choo) as well as budget friendly options (FabIndia, AND, Benetton, Zara, Lifestyle).

Italian Volleyball League

After a period in which Turin's CUS and Parma's Santal dominated, great entrepreneurial companies (like Fininvest in Milan, Montedison in Ravenna and Benetton in Treviso) decided to support and invest in volleyball, equipping strong teams which often won European and Intercontinental trophies.

Italophilia

Brands such as Gucci and Benetton are imitated by milliners from China to Latin America.

John Barnard

Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, where failures with his ideas (such as the numerous failures during testing of the semi-automatic gearbox throughout 1988), often made headlines despite being minor in nature.

Kim Alley

Traveling through Europe as a fashion model, Kim Alley set the stage for her success by landing high profile campaigns for Lancôme, Evian, and Benetton and was featured in such top fashion magazines as French Vogue, Italian Vogue, Italian Bazaar, and American Elle Magazine.

Nicole Péry

In 2001 she criticised a Benetton advertisement for its portrayal of women's bodies.

Philippe Benetton

Philippe Benetton (born Cahors, 18 May 1968) is a former French rugby union footballer and currently head coach of the Fédérale 1 club Limoges.

South Extension

South Ex I has several stores and restaurants, including: a huge, 3-storied Benetton store, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, Mehrasons Jewellery Store, Bengali Sweet Market Centre (a restaurant and sweet shop), Teksons and Midland Bookshops, Nalli Saris, Tanishq (exquisite jewelry store), BG's (designer fashion jewelry), Sehgal Bros. (clothing), as well as several other clothing , music stores and photography shop (Ajanta Digital Studio).

Tom Walkinshaw Racing

A falling out with Benetton boss Flavio Briatore saw Walkinshaw move to a position as team manager at Ligier, which had been acquired by Briatore.


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