Francesco Mutti , president of Centromarca (Confindustria), would be 100% right if: 1) Italy on food labelling had not made a lot of trouble 2) we did not have ‘black sheep’ – like Petti – who have damaged Italy’s image 3) our country did not profusely exploit workers in the fields
The parable of Eataly from 2020 to the present day, with the latest events concerning Verona and Bologna
“… We decide to enter into an agreement with the te-desco giant Rewe to create a chain of discount stores to be called Penny Market, controlled with 50 per cent equal shares. A decision by the board of directors is required to start the venture. I vote in favour of our father’s proposal, while his historic lawyer Alfonso Pellegatta is against it…’ Le Ossa dei Caprotti, page 169
Delivery is too expensive for those who practice it. Gorillas has been taken over and Getir has left Italy: three operators remain, with very high costs in relation to turnover. The role of dark kitchens that industrialise catering but worsen the quality of food. Western market in the hands of 4 main players
On the cover you will find a sentence found in Corriere della Sera and it is what we fear most: a loosening of quality standards in European food, with a possible invasion of ‘Made in USA’ products
The two Ferreros are travelling in parallel with the aim of doubling the firepower of the world’s third largest confectionary industrial group after Mars and Mondelez within a few years
Demand for alternative energy to oil, fertiliser demand and financial speculation threaten to exacerbate the storm unleashed by the war against Iran
Lidl’s marketing would have us believe that it is a supermarket. It is not, and we explain why. Moreover, the slogan ‘eat fresh’ used by Lidl to Europeans is secondarily misleading and Lidl cannot be an ‘ambassador of Made in Italy’ if it sells pasta made with foreign wheat as ‘Italian’
Compiled 17 April, updated 10 May 2026 By now, Generation Z, born between 1996 and 2015, predominantly uses a mixture…
Substitute foods are a mature segment that responds to environmental, health, ethical and economic needs. Food technology has made extraordinary progress in replicating flavours and textures
For years, cocoa was treated as a commodity: present in hundreds of references, manageable with seasonal contracts, relatively stable. Between 2024 and 2025 this approach was staravolta
