From the missed national champion of the 1960s, with GS – Esselunga, to the multi-regional companies of today. The opportunities missed by Italian large-scale retailers in e-commerce but also in the acquisitions that foreign retailers are making instead
The 5 commandments left by Nelson Rockefeller’s IBEC Americans, my apprenticeship as a distributor
The original headline, later removed by Corriere ortofrutticolo, is the one above. I also quote below the headline as revised by the newspaper. Obviously, as is easily understood when reading the article, I have never ‘attacked the identity of the central cooperatives’
The trend in our country in 2023 was: – 4.5% in volume for ‘Italian products’ (GS1 data, page 15 ). There was a : ‘sharp drop in consumption for products that recall the Italian character, especially those with the claim produced in Italy’. And the first to produce Italian sounding (fake) products are Italians
Our fruit and vegetables are less and less nutritious (and inedible)
US and China fight an all-out trade war. Online. Temu and Shein have long been trying to conquer the US non-food e-commerce market, surely the most uniform and the richest. Now Amazon is counter-attacking. Absent from this global war are European players
The gap between US and European distribution is now unbridgeable
The event was held on 27 May. The transcript, edited by Eleonora Sàita, made the content of this presentation unique – and was added to the videos and photos on 1 August 2024. Article updated 7 August 2024
In 1947, Nelson Rockefeller raised $2 million to set up IBEC: “The new company was to generate profits, but also to operate in accordance with a set of principles that clearly emphasised the social nature of its activities.”
