A brief history of e-commerce
A planetary trade war, eminently political, in which the Chinese and Americans are the ‘masters’ and Europe, apart from a few rare exceptions – such as Lidl – has stood by and watched
PepsiCo cuts prices on snacks by 15%
The PepsiCo case confirms what was known: many big brands have doped prices and margins in recent years. Not least because a 15% drop means that they had plenty of ‘hay in the farmyard’. PepsiCo was the world’s second largest food producer in 2023, after Nestlé and before the Brazilian meat producer JBS.
Ferrero: the hazelnut policy in Piedmont is not sustainable for farmers and does not valorise the Italian product
‘It is necessary to avoid foreign hazelnuts and Piedmontese hazelnuts in the same product’. Ferrero could imitate Barilla that sells pasta with 100% Italian wheat and possibly differentiate: Italian and non-Italian products
Fulvio Pierangelini and Esselunga ravioli
In this article there are several mentions of episodes from Le Ossa dei Caprotti , my book published in 2023 by Feltrinelli: the private-label chicken tortellini, the Zunino affair and the meeting with the ‘world’s best cook’, which enriched me personally but did not bear the desired fruit at Esselunga. Certainly not to the demerit of Fulvio Pierangelini
Parma ham amid new scandals and the PNRR museum
In the face of continuous scandals, the consortia, instead of trying to get the ham out of an image impasse and think about relaunching consumption of Parma ham, making it ‘cool’, as the Iberian jamon has done, prefer to celebrate themselves by doubling the museum (with 600,000 euro from the Pnrr)
Baby milk scandal: two dead, Nestlé in the crosshairs of criminal investigations
Children’s milk: the presence of toxins in Nestlé products was identified ten days before the first recalls, at the end of November. According to ‘Le Monde’, the manufacturer waited for a ‘health risk analysis’ before informing Dutch and then European authorities of the presence of cereulide in milk produced in the Netherlands…
GDO, Sunday yes or no?
In a nutshell: Coop is calling for a law on Sunday closures (= everyone closed) because it is unable to establish itself as a market leader, like Mercadona in Spain
In Italy, small towns are emptying, even of shops: will Amazon Now provide the service in the future?
Our distributors – such as Selex and Conad – who operate consortia, and thus are unable, with some exceptions, to offer a widespread e-commerce and delivery service for basic food and household products throughout Italy – risk having to leave space and opportunity to Amazon Now over time
Philipp Navratil ad of Nestlé: Donald Trump conditions our company on sustainability
Last week, scientists warned that global warming will exceed 1.5C more than a decade earlier than previously expected if recent warming rates continue. While Nestlé says its approach to ESG is unchanged..
Italians at the bar, restaurant or pizzeria often drink bad coffee
Coffee drunk at the café is bad and climate change threatens to exacerbate its inflationary effects, but perhaps there is hope if training and investment is made in a network of inspections
Esselunga: from 1957 to the early 1990s in the memories of a ‘grocer’s son
Esselunga’s origins are linked to the history of the city of Milan
The Caprotti family: the conflict between brothers Claudio, Guido and Bernardo Caprotti as seen by Marianne Caprotti
“My two youngest sons were both deprived of their jobs and therefore of their lives’. Marianne Caprotti, Bernardo Caprotti’s mother, 1982. History repeated itself later with me. By Giuseppe Caprotti. 1 May, Labour Day
