Here he is again!   The definition employed by Montanelli for Fanfani fits also for the return on stage of Carlo De Benedetti.
 He acquired the control of the Aedes thinking that a Company listed at the Stock Exchange - and having a sizeable real estate patrimony and less than a thousand shareholders - could constitute a good springboard for his re-launch.
When two very good opportunities arose he hurried to catch them. 
The first one came from the meeting, and later from the agreement, with a great insurance company, the German TMW. AC (Ergs Victoria Group), interested in investing in real estates in Italy
Once consolidated the future of the Aedes, the Engineer concentrated on the activity that fits him the best (the financing) and introducing himself timely in the boom the market deserves to the hi-tech. 
This purpose he has established (by breaking-up the Aedes) the CDB Web Tech Investimenti S.p.A.  (initialed CDB Investimenti S.p.A.).
To highlight the " paternity", for the first time he introduced in the " logos " his own initials - CDB:  Carlo De Benedetti. 
To highlight " the autonomy ", he did not want any of his sons siding him; with him only Franca and Massimo Segre, the must reliable friends and the most competent councillors. The CDB Investimenti will - its time - promote the establishment of a management company skilled in the so-called " Not harmonized funds " . 
The less underwriting will be 2 billions; profits distribution not foreseen, indefinitely. In the " set" of De Benedetti, Segre and the Banca Intermobiliare (partners of the initiative), " rich and long-lived personalities" surely do not lack:  the success is therefore ensured.
But the CDB - Investimenti will work directly with a plurality of differenced financial interventions in the multimedia sector: for these features it is foreseen (once performed the split) the quotation at the Stock exchange on the " New Market ".
Carlo De Benedetti could not escape the fascination of the hi-tech securities boom: timely at the utmost he decided to benefit from.
It was enough the announcement of the Aedes establishing the CDB- Investimenti to make the quotation of the security Aedes "jump " in a vertiginous way (from November 1st up today from £ 8.000 to more than 17.000).
The 70% Aedes today yields more than the double of the price paid by the Engineer. In less than a year De Benedetti computes an appreciation of more than 100 billions: very good! It's probably that the CDB- Investimenti security will adequately be " valorised " by market after the quotation.
It can be conjectured that the expected increase of capital of the CDB-Investimenti will be by an offer for sale that is a bid by the De Benedetti group of a part of its own parcel of shares and with which benefit it's easy to imagine
The TMW AG has acquired the 25% of the Aedes Capital in ordinary and save shares: from whom and at which price?
Try to imagine it!
By how much will it increase the CDB quotation after the quotation in the Stock Exchange? Try to imagine it!
There's not doubt: Here he is again!  ......   It's the king of diamonds!

The enterprise is healthy and outlooks are the best. 

Indeed according to Colaninno it's only enough (and pardon me if it's a trifle!) to dismiss 13.500 units within 2001 equal to the staff of a big enterprise; it's only enough (and pardon me if it's a trifle!) to sell some no-strategic shares and cash the exchange value of some thousands billion, an amount that is equal to the 50% of the government's financial manoeuvre for the 2000; it's only enough (and Totò would have said 'a rubbish!') to improve efficiency, to outdo competition, to conquer markets etc. etc. 
Naturally all that must occur while producing - still according to Colaninno - adequate profits allowing adequate dividends.
Colaninno has asserted again this project to the shareholders convened at the meeting on January 14th by a glance and a tone expressing unshakeable faith in the choices made; in his ability and his collaborators' one to put them in act in the planned times; in the supremacy the Group has as regard to creativity, efficiency and competitiveness over the current competition and ... next too.
He is this way. They defined him at the time of the Telecom TOB as a bulldozer and time has proved that the epithet is correct. 
But this way of his to do things has often lead him to clashes (more than incomprehension) with minority shareholders (mainly with save shareholders), with the "investment funds " (mainly foreign) and also with that social-politic world that has followed his rise with favour and sympathy.
Meaningful, these terms, it has been the intervention at the meeting on January 14th, of the representative of an important English fund that stigmatised the limits and the contradictions of his manners, and times and ways the minority shareholders relationship are managed.
The remarks rendered explicit at the meeting (but on the other side already advanced by markets and financial analysts) are corroborated by the answer given by Colaninno as regard to the price determination of 6,5 euros for the TOB on save ones. 
A lapidary answer, " it seemed to us the right price ".  In that " seemed " there's the entire character of the personage.