Interview Summary
Roberto Angelini Rossi, chairman of Empresas Copec and AntarChile, shows how his family built a large diversified petroleum, forestry, and fishery group in Chile over several decades. He chronicles the family’s move from Italy to Chile, their entrepreneurial start in the fields of construction, fishing, and forestry and their eventual takeover of COPEC, the largest Chilean energy and fuel distribution company. Angelini also analyses the internationalization strategy of the firm as it opened forestry operations in Brazil and Argentina and founded sales offices in the U.S., China, Japan, and Europe.
Businessmen are never allowed to say ‘I’m done.’ We can never sit down to see what happens. There is constant evolution ... we must provide orientation to our companies and keep on expanding and innovating.
Additional Resources
Marcelo Bucheli, “Multinational Corporations, Business Groups, and Economic Nationalism: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Royal Dutch-Shell, and Energy Politics in Chile 1913-2005,” Enterprise & Society 11, no. 2 (June 2010): 350-399
Tomás Undurraga, “Rearticulación de grupos económicos y renovación ideológica del empresariado en Chile 1980-2010: Antecedentes, preguntas e hipótesis para un estudio de redes,” Universidad Diego Portales, working papers ICSO-UDP No. 2011
Interview Citation Format
"Interview with Roberto Angelini Rossi, interviewed by Andrea Lluch, Santiago, Chile, Janurary 16, 2008, Creating Emerging Markets Project, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School, http://www.hbs.edu/creating-emerging-markets/."
