Italian wheat at risk, in the food war Russia is winning
How Putin is winning the wheat and fertiliser war
Benetton: what could have been learned from the experience of Manifattura Caprotti (textiles)
The Benettons had no chance to relaunch the brand, just as we did not with our cotton mill
The brand: ‘Esselunga Bio’, 1999
The fiercest of our competitors, the Coop, often boasts that they will have private label organic products in the future. So we burn it in time, going on the shelves with organic when they still only talk about it.
Auchan prepares to leave Russia and Hungary
Auchan is currently in final negotiations to sell its Russian subsidiary to a local buyer, after more than 20 years of operations in the country. This decision comes against a background of increasing international pressure and accusations of supporting the invasion of Ukraine
The brand: Esselunga Ecolabel ‘For those who love nature’, 2001
Esselunga was the first company, in May 2001, to obtain European Ecolabel recognition with its own-brand washing machine powder. The label was then extended to the Esselunga lines of detergents, paper products and textiles (also using organically grown cotton).
The Esselunga brand: its beginnings and development up to 2003
In 1995, we are also able to achieve profitability for all our products and categories with industrial accounting: this allows us to better target contracts, through buyers and sales in supermarkets, with the help of the marketing department. The three functions - purchasing, marketing and sales - are fundamental to the implementation and profitability of the company's brand, whose operating result, from the 1990s to the early 2000s, is multiplied by 2.5
Black Friday: what does it mean? And how is it doing in 2024?
Black Friday is an expression that originated because traditionally, large American retailers arrived on this date having covered all costs (wages and salaries, rent, supplier payments, interest on loans, and taxes). Everything they sold from Black Friday onwards was pure profit, until 31 December, and thus brought their budgets into the black. In the US, despite a difficult start, record figures for e-commerce
‘The Cold War of Supermarkets’: CIA fighting Coop?
There is a huge difference between news reporting and history
Gaetano Puglisi, the myth of Wegmans inspiring Esselunga and Dominick’s superstores
One of the many fairy tales found on the web has it that we were inspired by the New York State chain (base. Rochester) to develop the Esselunga superstores: not so, our model was influenced by my experience working at Dominick’s in Chicago.
Report intervenes in the never-ending Prosciuttopoli affair: ‘The Csqa does not check that Parma PDO feed complies with the specifications’
Between swine fever and omitted controls the sector risks sinking
In France and Italy, Amazon in the book market does what it wants, in defiance of the laws of both countries
“Amazon is a lawless actor!”
In Delivery the Covid-19 ‘hangover’ is over: Just Eat is forced to sell off Grubhub
The valuation of the sale is a mere mouthful at $650 million, consisting of $500 million in attached debt and only $150 million in cash paid to Just Eat. Grubhub had been acquired during the 2020 frenzy at a valuation of $7.3 billion
