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After chairman Guido Barilla rebed gay fai on natnal rad, his CEO spent five years cleang up the pany’s reputatn.

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DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?

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“I would never do a mercial wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect, but bee we don’t agree wh them, ” Barilla said on Italy’s bt-known rad talk show. If gay ctomers didn’t like that, they uld go buy another brand of pasta, he said. The chairman, who turned 60 last year and has five children, further clarified that he opposed adoptn by gay parents.

The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once proclaimed he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements. The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once said he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.

BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS

In September 2013, Guido Barilla, the chairman of Barilla Group, one of the world's leadg pasta manufacturers, engenred ntroversy and prompted lls for boytts when durg the urse of an terview wh an Italian rad program, he rpond to a qutn about whether he would ever feature a gay fay his pany's mercials by sayg (as roughly translated to English): "We won't clu gays our ads, bee we like the tradnal fay. If gays don't like , they n always eat another brand of pasta.

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He had joed <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="Lk_lk-tVkXhPLPofs-" data-ponent="lk">Barilla SpA</a> as chief executive officer ls than a year before and was on his way to a dner wh s chairman, <!-- -->Guido Barilla<!-- -->, who was givg a live terview on natnal statn Rad 24. As the sun edged lower his rearview mirror, Colzani turned up the volume and listened as his boss walked the hosts through the pany’s fay herage—s spaghettis and sc. Then Barilla dropped a bombshell he would spend half a atong for.</p><p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-" data-ponent="paragraph">“I would never do a mercial wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect, but bee we don’t agree wh them,” Barilla said on Italy’s bt-known rad talk show. If gay ctomers didn’t like that, they uld go buy another brand of pasta, he said. Barilla, who together wh his three siblgs owns 85 percent of the pany’s shar and holds an dividual stake worth about $1.1 billn, extolled the valu of the “classic fay” that the brand targeted. The chairman, who turned 60 last year and has five children, further clarified that he <a href=" tle="Guido Barilla: "Mai spot n una famiglia gay, sono per famiglia tradiznale" | Rad24" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="Lk_lk-tVkXhPLPofs-" data-ponent="lk">opposed adoptn by gay parents</a>.</p><div class="Placeholr_placeholrParagraphWrapper-yqk1PvmrNoc-"><div class="Placeholr_shimmergParagraph-CAmHW46Yvo4-" data-ponent="placeholr-paragraph"><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergParagraph-CAmHW46Yvo4-" data-ponent="placeholr-paragraph"><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div><div class="Placeholr_shimmergLe-eiuBL5rgMWw-" data-ponent="placeholr-le"></div></div></div></div><div class="styl_footerWrapper__gEfDW"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="TipTout_tipTout-NP387c-VPn4- TipTout_centerAligned-1R3aE3UWtZI-" data-ponent="tip-tout"><div class="TipTout_background-ilqhthmR9OM-">Have a nfintial tip for our reporters?<!-- --> <span class="TipTout_lk-uBZSvGfY87E-">Get Touch</span></div></a><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="TermalTout_termalTout-jMmQ--E35FQ- TermalTout_centerAligned-dU4kQ27OR90-" data-ponent="termal-tout"><div class="TermalTout_background-ugfAG8JrlcE-"><div class="TermalTout_-7hWexZP6x-U-">Before ’s here, ’s on the<!-- --> <span class="TermalTout_highlight-LKP-y7t--IQ-">Bloomberg Termal</span></div><div class="TermalTout_cta-MhehFIQemMA-"><svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" role="img" aria-label="Bloomberg Termal" xmlns=" class="TermalTout_in-UNnzMeAfRHw-"><tle>Bloomberg Termal .

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