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The dwarfism of the Italian large-scale retail trade, Caprotti: ‘Coop and Conad do not exist’

The original headline, later removed by Corriere ortofrutticolo, is the one above. I also quote below the headline as revised by the newspaper. Obviously, as is easily understood when reading the article, I have never ‘attacked the identity of the central cooperatives’

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Made in Italy: the ‘old’ marketing of manufacturers and large retailers

The trend in our country in 2023 was: – 4.5% in volume for ‘Italian products’ (GS1 data, page 15 ). There was a : ‘sharp drop in consumption for products that recall the Italian character, especially those with the claim produced in Italy’. And the first to produce Italian sounding (fake) products are Italians

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Giuseppe Caprotti on Le Ossa dei Caprotti: ‘A book that allowed me to make peace with the past and with my father’. On 26 October, at Assolombarda Monza

I am grateful to jury president Gianna Parri for having been included among the finalists. Beyond the third place achieved, the support and appreciation of the jurors and readers in the room was comforting

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The Caprotti family and Coop: the ‘war’ on several fronts

(…) Let’s start thinking of a dossier that shows how, from both the members’ and the social point of view, cooperatives are enterprises like any other. It follows that the favourable conditions from which they benefit are state aid. We set up an internal working group and (…) gather all the necessary documentation to support our conviction. The dossier will then be taken to Brussels by Federdistribuzione and will change, at least in part, the taxation of cooperatives. In their defence even Massimo D’Alema is moving …

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The Caprotti family and relatives: the formidable Aunt Virginia, sister of great-great-grandfather Giuseppe

Aunt Virginia was the family peacemaker at a time of great feuds: the good work of keeping at bay two men who were able to tear each other apart at work whether they were competitors or partners had to be continued successfully by spouses and nephews, as the two, in their older years, used to spend Christmas together and with relatives

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The Caprotti family, innovation and tradition in an Italian factory: workers from San Vittore prison

When, in the early post-unification years, the Caprottis built their first large factory in the true sense of the term, eventually finding themselves with thousands of square metres of space, they were initially not quite clear what to put in it. They probably envisaged a kind of ‘centralised manufacturing’, and to this end they purchased various machines by turning to various manufacturers, including the Milanese prison of San Vittore whose director, Eugenio Cicognani, was personally passionate about and invented a newly developed regulator loom, built by the inmates.

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The Caprotti family, innovation and tradition in an Italian manufacture: Albiate and Switzerland

Bernardo Caprotti, an agricultural owner, founded Giuseppe Caprotti’s Bernardo Caprotti cotton weaving company on his land in Ponte Albiate. Caprotti’s company was still based on an almost pre-industrial production system: few simple machines, many warehouses, worker-farmers weaving mainly at home. In 1866 there were about 1500 of them. However, the great industrial revolution that would transform Europe was underway…