Adriano Olivetti
![Adriano Olivetti in Venice, 1957](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Adriano_Olivetti_1957.jpg)
The Olivetti factory initially consisted of 30 workers and concentrated on electric measurement devices. By 1908, 25 years after Remington in the United States, the company started to produce typewriters.
Adriano Olivetti transformed shop-like operations into a modern factory. He supported the utopian system of the Community Movement. In his company, apart from managers and technicians, he enrolled a large number of artists like writers and architects, following his interest in design and urban and building planning that were closely linked with his personal utopian vision. His participatory and enlightened corporate model was contrasted to the paternalism of Fiat S.p.A.'s Vittorio Valletta. Provided by Wikipedia