FIAT CEO QUITS AFTER FERRARI BOSS NAMED NEW CHAIRMAN.(Business)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: May 31, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Tom Rachman Associated Press

ROME -- Fiat SpA chief executive Giuseppe Morchio handed in his resignation Sunday, shortly after the auto conglomerate announced it had named Ferrari chief Luca Cordero di Montezemolo its new chairman.

Morchio also had been considered a candidate for the position.

The Italian news agency ANSA said it had received a statement from Morchio attributing his resignation to "the changed conditions coming from the deci...