When there is so much animosity, stepping aside is difficult. Not least because in a company there is history and identity, family but also individual.
Easy to say with hindsight, but a compromise, to the detriment of individuals, to save the company, is always desirable.
Do we put a spoke in the wheels of organic food, encouraging the ingestion of pesticides, and promote wine, the abuse of which is carcinogenic? More attention to the health of citizens would not hurt.
‘Political and social positions now have measurable business consequences’
Names crop up: Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, Kimberly Clark, Pepscico, Algida (Unilever) and L’Orèal for FMCG in a ‘Dejà Vu’ I had experienced in Esselunga with the advent of the Euro
This new shock, after the inflationary shock caused by the attack on Ukraine, in addition to triggering a humanitarian cause, risks creating political extremism and new waves of migration towards Europe. It obviously adds to the short-sighted suspension of the dismantling of Usaid
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
What will we read about in your new book? ‘I tell another side of the family through two extraordinary explorers: my eponymous ancestor Giuseppe Caprotti, who lived thirty years in Yemen, and my great uncle Gianni Albertini, a skier and mountaineer who explored the North Pole’.
The government, on energy, is in a huge conflict of interest, which is why prices do not fall: Snam, Italgas and Terna beat Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook). Italy’s publicly controlled companies that transport or distribute gas and electricity to citizens and businesses are more profitable than some of the world’s largest, most technologically advanced and important companies in the business of the future: cloud, data centres and artificial intelligence. In short, Big Energy beats Big Tech
The first attribution study on Cyclone Harry confirms the role of climate change being denied and ‘cancelled out’ by Trump. And in Europe, losses from extreme weather events since 1980 have amounted to €822 billion, growing exponentially in recent years
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
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
Mercosur: it is obvious that the ‘invasion’ risk of uncontrolled products, without the safeguard clauses, is likely to exacerbate the risks to our health. But the real problem is that in the European Union there are ‘derogation’ authorisations that allow prohibited substances to be used by member countries to compete unfairly with their neighbours. So before lashing out at Mercosur, perhaps we need to put things in order in Europe
