Ideas on the internationalisation of Italian large-scale retail trade from the book “Le Ossa dei Caprotti” at the Stati Generali dell’Export, Milan 11 October 2024

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 dwarfism of the Italian large-scale retail trade, Caprotti: ‘Coop and Conad do not exist’

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’

Made in Italy: the ‘old’ marketing of manufacturers and large retailers

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