E-commerce giant JD.com acquires the Media World network (with Fnac- Darty and Unieuro)
“…more than antitrust, I see geopolitics as the main issue here: controlling not only production but also distribution in Europe is a strategic issue…”
USA: why Publix is a unique phenomenon
Publix has done so well, with much higher margins than all competitors, because it has a strong and enduring culture built in part on share ownership
The false myth of ‘100% Italian’ food: our country is not self-sufficient
We are a country of processors: only one pasta dish in five is made from Italian wheat. We import wheat, pulses, milk, oil, tomatoes and beef. But the quality and safety of our food depends on tariff negotiations
Silvana Rocchi and Francesco Bonatti on their work together
‘Super fantastic memories!!!! Lots of work, lots of emotions and also fun!!!! Thank you’
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
