Action: how the retail giant – with ‘healthy’ marketing methods – took power in France
For the past two years, it has topped the list of French favourite brands and, following sound principles, is expanding, at lightning speed, throughout Europe
Guido Caprotti (1929- 2012), co-founder of Esselunga and GS (now part of the Carrefour group)
It was thanks to the friendship between Guido Caprotti and Marco Brunelli that Esselunga and the GS supermarket chain (now part of the Carrefour group) were founded
About the GS- Carrefour operation and the Benetton – Delvecchio consortium
“Someone still has to explain to me why, in a retail market that needed concentration [and expertise], the government allowed a group that didn’t even have a delicatessen, to buy GS (which belonged to Sme =IRI= Italian State!) and then resell it quietly to a foreign group (Carrefour) after a few years” Mario Gasbarrino. This also applies to the New Princes operation
Carrefour leaves Oman and focuses on France where it strengthens its position
Carrefour, in great difficulty, would like to leave Italy
Auchan and Casino: Creditors are worried
“Auchan and Casino are under pressure from creditors. In a context of falling consumer spending, credit institutions believe that the financial structure of the two leading French retailers needs to be strengthened. According to reports, French banks would like the Mulliez family to inject capital into Auchan’. So should Casino’s main shareholder, Daniel Kretinsky
San Valerio Protomartyr of Africa, in Albiate
The relics preserved in the oratory of the same name in Albiate belong to a San Valerio who was martyred in Africa with San Rufinus, at the time of the great anti-Christian persecutions (3rd-4th century A.D.), and whose name day is set, along with that of his companion, at 16 November, the day on which the oratory is opened and mass is celebrated. His bones are “protagonists” of my book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti
A brief history of Villa San Valerio and the adjacent chapel in Albiate
1893: when the main branch of the Airoldi family became extinct in 1768, the inheritance passed to a secondary branch that moved to Sicily, whose last heirs at the end of the 19th century decided to liquidate the Lombard properties, which were sold at least in part (including the villa) to the brothers Bernardo, Antonio, Emilio and Giovanni Caprotti di Giuseppe. With the sale, as was customary at the time, a large part of the family archive with the history of the properties sold and their administration, as well as the history of the Airoldi family itself from at least the 16th century, also passed to the new owners
David Grossman: Israel is a nightmare (in Netanyahu’s personal war)
The ever-growing mass of Gazawi corpses punctuates, like a metronome, the depleting time of hostages, the future announcements of fallen Israeli soldiers, but above all it stands there to remind us what a moral abyss we have fallen into. An abyss in which the death of dozens, hundreds of human beings has become routine’. Etgar Keret
Ukraine, Gaza and Africa linked by the same fate with Donald Trump’s cutting of Usaid funds
What do these cuts mean? A major strategic error, which harms the United States first and foremost and the world in general. The Usaid cuts were a point of friction between Pope Francis and Donald Trump’s government
Donald Trump with aid cuts to weaker countries puts millions at risk of death
The possible consequences of the cessation of US assistance to fourteen ‘famine’ countries. In addition to hunger and death there will be more instability, more wars and more fundamentalist Islamism
How to measure – well – sales in distribution: with a constant network
Sales in distribution are measured by gross revenues, including new openings and restructurings. But there is another, healthier and clearer method to understand whether a company is really doing well or not, regardless of network development: constant network sales, which exclude new openings and major restructuring in the year measured
The US project – episode four
Trump’s manipulation or US-Russia alliance? It is not known, but the confusion created by Trump’s constant contradictory statements – on Ukraine but also on everything else – favours Putin’s desired chaos
