Demand for memory chips is driving prices higher. Will AI’s promise to boost productivity come in time to offset this inflation?
In reality, the entire IT sector is contributing, as we’ve already mentioned here. Below: the second chart shows Apple’s growth figures
Pennyis targeting the Italian market in 2028, when the German discount chain expects to become profitable, bringing its EBITDA margin as a percentage of turnover into positive territory at 1–2 per cent.
This will be the path to gradually closing the gap with those that the Rewe Group brand considers its direct competitors:LidlandEurospin (as they are among the leading discounters in Italy). In his first interview as the new Italian CEO since 1 February,
Arnd Riehl further denies press rumours of a possible exit from the Italian market...
Between 2024 and 2025, the non-alcoholic segment almost doubled its market share, rising from 2.1% to 3.9% (an increase of over 85%).
Below: a private-label non-alcoholic beer from Swiss retailer Coop
€4.38 billion has been earmarked for water and land protection, and for the management of water resources. This framework covers the many aspects of the system that remain critical: infrastructure, reducing network leaks, and investment in the agricultural irrigation system to safeguard crops through the Reservoir Plan.
This Plan was proposed by Coldiretti toconserve water and combat hydrogeological instability in the face of climate change, which over the last ten years has caused €14 billion worth of damage to agricultural production and infrastructure . Rinnovabili.it
Five years on, absolutely nothing more is known about this Plan.
Drafted on 3 July 2021, updated on 23 June 2026
Asda, the UK’s third-largest food retailer after Tesco and Sainsbury’s, is undergoing a period of profound transformation with the aim of regaining market share and bringing back to its stores the customers it has lost in recent years.
During 2025, total turnover, including fuel sales, fell by 3.4 per cent to £25.9 billion. At the same time, the group has launched an aggressive commercial strategy based on price cuts, with the stated aim of remaining between 5% and 10% cheaper than its main traditional competitors...
Tesco and the discount retailers are in a strong position ; the current market shares are as follows: Tesco: 28.3%, Sainsbury’s:15.3%,Asda: 11 .8% ,Aldi: 10.6%, Lidl: 8.2%–8.4%.
Note: There was a long period during which Walmart owned Asda.
And in the world of trade, it operates within an increasingly competitive international context that is becoming less and less European, with the emergence of new production hubs such as North Africa, which represent the future of production.
The APO Catania general meeting, held on 13 June, provided an opportunity to explore market issues in greater depth: “... Sicily, and Mount Etna in particular, is fortunate enough to produce oils with a captivating and pleasant fruitiness. Moreover, a great many people already choose Sicily; they come for tourism, to discover its places and culture, including its gastronomy. These are consumers who are already naturally inclined to promote a region they love.” explained Alberto Grimelli, director of Teatro Naturale.
Therefore, the driving forces behind high-quality, high-value-added olive cultivation such as that practised in Sicily are hedonism, experience and sustainability, together with the recognised health benefits associated with top-quality extra virgin olive oil. We must pursue the path of promotion, including through available tools such as PDO and PGI.
On this subject, please also read this article.
There’s certainly a name for this difference: Amazon Web Services, which has been Amazon’s goose that lays the golden eggs for at least a decade – the cloud business that continues to grow.
Read this article on the subject.
The Large-Scale Retail Map compares Cagliari, Rome and Rimini and reveals a recurring pattern: Eurospin chooses already mature catchment areas that are easily accessible and have a strong presence of discount stores and competing supermarkets.
I don’t understand what surprises GDOWeek: this is the strategy Aldi has always used in the US. Is it opening a supermarket or a hypermarket? I’ll set up shop right next door and capture a share of its customer traffic. This was already happening when I worked at Dominick’s in the late 1980s.
Read *Il Fatto Alimentare*, which states that “NaturaSì ’s approach amounts to a clean-labelling strategy and pre-emptive marketing”. Aware of the strong sensitivity and mistrust felt by a section of consumers towards terms such as ‘vaccines’ or ‘mRNA’, the company has sought to safeguard the reputation of its supply chain. The latent risk of this messaging, however, is that it may lead people to believe that the rest of the conventional supply chain makes use of biotechnologies which, in fact, are not actually used in reality...”
NaturaSì, the company that markets organic products and is owned by Boniface Ferraresi, has, in the past, run questionable advertising campaigns.
