The mystery of the Carrefour Express sign: ‘the names and colours are not disputed’?
Great confusion in brands and colours. Between ‘Gay Pride’, Eat and Shop, Urban Life, Potager City and Terre d’Italia
Amazon and big tech will never pay taxes
Trade is linked to world geopolitics: the political weaknesses of the Europeans, who would like to avoid 50% tariffs, and Trump’s return to power have given the global minimum tax the coup de grace by distorting the market
JBS, the world’s largest meat multinational financing Donald Trump: IPO amid corruption and environmental devastation
Mercosur: possible dangers and opportunities to be discovered
‘Our man in Washington’: Trump in the hands of the Russians, chapter two
Trump is being ambiguous with Ukraine: his defence minister, for the third time, has suspended the delivery of armaments to Ukraine: after the country’s possible surrender, is the US heading for an economic crash? Of course Putin would be delighted
Le Ossa dei Caprotti” presentation, L”Astemia – Barolo, 29 May 2025
“Reading History to Understand the Present and Hypothesise the Future”. I had the pleasure of speaking at the Demetra Talk that took place in Milan on 25 March 2025 at the Sala Convegni of Palazzo Recalcati with the moderation of David Berera
Russia – Ukraine: don’t call it peace
Medinsky is, like Alexander Dugin, convinced of the superiority of the ‘Russian race’, and in 2013, he claimed that Russians had ‘one more chromosome’ (than other ethnicities), not realising that usually, those with an extra chromosome have Down syndrome
The thefts of butter, cheese and lack of potatoes highlight the cost of Russia’s war economy
Russia is now a war economy
Lidl focuses on AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Starting with a system created for internal use in 2021, Schwarz Group, owner of Lidl, now offers cloud computing and IT security services to corporate customers. Its IT unit, Schwarz Digits in 2023 generated EUR 1.9 billion in annual sales and employs 7,500 people. The group’s further developments
Esselunga Sottocasa, small shops, big opportunities: why invest in the proximity format
Proximity shops are perfectly suited to the Italian urban structure: in smaller towns they are the only truly sustainable solution, while in large cities, such as the centre of Milan, the smaller format is often the only logistically and economically viable option
Olio Cuore: why we pay double for it
Cuore oil is an example of how communication and nutritional enrichment can make a product perceived as ‘special’ that, in fact, is similar to others
Esselunga’s operating result
One of the many stories that have circulated about me is that I would have brought Esselunga poor financial results for 2003 and that this would have led to my removal. Nothing could be more untrue. If you look at the numbers, you can see that the 2003 Ros, compared to that of the early 1990s, was decidedly better, thanks in part to careful management of contracts with suppliers (see the example of Barilla) and to the negotiations carried out in the ESD Centre
Why the oil we put on the table cannot be ‘vintage’
Only 45.9% of the extra virgin olive oil (EVO) in Italy is domestically produced
