He earned his high school diploma from Liceo ‘Galileo Galilei’ and a bachelor's degree in economics and business from University of Verona[2] in 1983.
After completing his degree, he began to work at the Golden Lady Spa, an Italian company leader in the production of pantyhose, founded by Nerino Grassi.
In 1993 the partnership between the two entrepreneurs broke up and he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to his own Calzedonia, focusing on the objective of producing and selling high quality products at a fair price.
[1] "But the absence of multinationals is a brake for the development of the Country (Italy) and a lost opportunity of making our children citizens of the world: according to me it is a priority let the employees of the group travel, but only a big company can do it systematically".
[6] The organization adopted by the entrepreneur originally from Trento is verticalised: it goes from the head to the distribution in single-brand stores through a concentrated production to countries where labor is cheap.
[8] In 2013, Sandro Veronesi launched the SignorVino chain of wine bars, with the intention of transferring know-how from his experiences in the textile industry.
[9] Veronesi created the foundation San Zeno in 1999 through which a part of Calzedonia profit is reinvested in education, training and work for those who are in need and cannot afford it.