The wake of businessman Abilio Diniz will take place this Monday (19), in the Noble Hall of the MorumBIS Stadium, in São Paulo, the club for which Abilio supported. The tributes began at 11 am and will continue until 3 pm, when the hall must be closed. Abilio's funeral should take place this Monday, but will be restricted to family and close friends.
Abilio Diniz died on Sunday night (18), aged 87. He was admitted to the Albert Einstein Hospital, in São Paulo, and suffered respiratory failure due to pneumonitis.
Trajectory
With a career marked by entrepreneurship, Abilio Diniz transformed the family sweet shop, founded in 1949 by his father, Valentim Diniz, into one of the biggest businesses in Brazil: Grupo Pão de Açúcar.
Abilio took charge of the group in the 1990s and left “GPA” in 2013. In addition to his career at Pão de Açúcar, he had other notable roles as an entrepreneur and was a shareholder in Carrefour Brasil.
In recent years, he has also led programs on CNN, where he received businesspeople, politicians and important names from civil society to discuss and rethink the paths to economic and social development in our country.
The businessman was also passionate about sports and became an example in practicing physical activities.
Abilio Diniz had six children, eighteen grandchildren, as well as great-grandchildren. His youngest son, Miguel, was born in 2009, when the businessman was 72 years old. He also faced a personal tragedy with the death of his son João Paulo, aged 58, in 2022.
Source: CNN Brasil
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