Our distributors – such as Selex and Conad – who operate consortia, and thus are unable, with some exceptions, to offer a widespread e-commerce and delivery service for basic food and household products throughout Italy – risk having to leave space and opportunity to Amazon Now over time
Last week, scientists warned that global warming will exceed 1.5C more than a decade earlier than previously expected if recent warming rates continue. While Nestlé says its approach to ESG is unchanged..
Pfas pollution in the Vicenza area, rain of sentences for managers. ‘Historic sentences’
Melting ice in the Arctic will facilitate northern trade routes and Russia is well placed to exploit the consequences of climate change
Why France and Italy have allied themselves to say no, at least for the time being, to the ratification of Mercosur, whose ratification must be considered very carefully: the health of Europeans depends on it
How has our relationship with food changed over the last hundred years? In the first episode of the docuseries “What We Eat”, produced together with @foodunfolded with the support of EIT Food and co-funded by the European Union, we retrace the evolution of our relationship with what we eat, which has been turned upside down in just one century
Glyphosate has been classified as ‘possibly carcinogenic’; it is a herbicide whose use is controversial: it is present in pasta but also in Italian groundwater. The backstage of this study, a burning document, is significant given that glyphosate has been – also on the basis of it – re-authorised by the EU in 2023
The anti-obesity molecule revolution is challenging the model of the industry giants, which could lose up to USD 90 billion in the US by 2031. As a result, multinationals are trying to switch to Europe and a more protein-rich offer. And US restaurants – given the level of meat inflation – are struggling and reducing staff and portions of their dishes
Walmart works for better water management, optimised fertiliser application and crop rotation to improve soil quality and biodiversity
A brief history of one of the best-selling products in supermarkets: from the banana wars with the subsequent US oligopoly of Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte, to bananas with alternative brands.
The anti-deforestation legislation, hailed as revolutionary by environmental organisations, was strongly criticised from the start by some countries, such as Brazil, the US and, within the EU, Germany, eager to protect their foresters. Several large companies, including Nestlé, Danone and Ferrero, had however prepared themselves and were urging Brussels to definitively implement it…
Amazon’s real challenges are in e-commerce, AI, cloud computing, data centres. Or in renewables where it is a major player in France but not in Italy because this government does not believe in it and above all has a major conflict of interest
