Michele Ferrero, Maker of Nutella, Dies on Valentine’s Day

ROME — Michele Ferrero, the world’s richest candy maker whose Nutella chocolate and hazlenut spread helped raise generations of Europeans and defined Italian sweets, died on Valentine’s Day, the company said. He was 89.

Ferrero, who had been ill for several months, died Saturday in Montecarlo where he lived, surrounded by his family, the company said in a statement.

A wake was scheduled in the Alba factory and the funeral was scheduled for the cathedral in Alba, the company said.

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The New York Times