Italy an Amazon stronghold, in Europe it is e-commerce challenge between fast fashion and second hand. Local marketplaces fly except in our country. Amazon tests a food marketplace
“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
The bird flu that started in 2022 led to the slaughter of 140 million animals. Duties could drive up their price again and they are in short supply in France
In the takeover of Auchan by Conad, Francesco Pugliese’s manners and methods towards staff and journalists were unspeakable. Practically no one talked about it. And the question I ask myself today, almost five years later, is: where were the Conad shareholders in an affair that resembled stalking?
The gap between US and European distribution is very wide and growing
It might sound like the plot of a Totò film, but the story doesn’t even make one smile, because it was the thousands of families of dismissed employees, about whom La Stampa says nothing, who paid the price. But this is nothing new. The affair went on for years, amid complacent silences and intimidation of those who dared to write about it like me (and a few others)
Demographics and market saturation give big brands few prospects. Confirmation comes from Nestlé which wants to spin off its water division and Unilever which wants to sell its ice cream division. Nestlé had to lower its growth forecast to 2%: the big brands are trying hard to delay their decline
We will see, I think shortly, who, between western multinationals – influenced by disappointing sales and political decisions – and China – oriented by the single party – will have been right
Opportunities and risks of climate change in the wine world in Europe: ‘if you love the Bordeaux wines of the 1970s and 1980s, those are gone forever’
Drafted 8 February 2021, updated 25 February 2025 The pitfalls for consumers in packaging and labelling are many: we will…
The problem four years later remains: food labelling in Italy follows the rhythm of extensions
In Italy, where we had prosciuttopoli, a scandal that broke out in 2019 and was never seriously tackled, absolutely nothing is happening, despite the fact that swine plague licks the borders of Langhirano (Parma), it is surprising that this is happening given that Ettore Prandini, president of Coldiretti, is a farmer. And in the USA there has been the first death of a human being
