Prada’s Patrizio Bertelli Talks Expansion and Growth

MILAN — New projects and future challenges are adding a spring to Patrizio Bertelli’s step.

The Prada Group chief executive officer was keen to illustrate investments in manufacturing, product diversification and retail expansion at an almost four-hour meeting with investors and the press in Milan on Wednesday — during which he repeatedly used the word “fun” to describe his job and the group’s activities.