USA: Bird flu drives up price of eggs
The bird flu that started in 2022 led to the slaughter of 140 million animals. Duties could drive up their price again and they are in short supply in France
Vandemoortele and Délifrance create a global frozen bakery giant
In France, frozen products accounted for 24% of all cakes and other sweet baked goods in 2021. In the UK, 21% of desserts were frozen, compared to 13% in Spain and 17% in the US, according to research groups Gira and Global Market Insights
Luigi Rubinelli: ‘I closed Retailwatch, that’s why’
In the takeover of Auchan by Conad, Francesco Pugliese’s manners and methods towards staff and journalists were unspeakable. Practically no one talked about it. And the question I ask myself today, almost five years later, is: where were the Conad shareholders in an affair that resembled stalking?
High rents, speculation and the underworld crushing the restaurant business in Milan: just the beginning
High rents, speculation and the underworld are crushing Milan’s restaurant industry, the situation has been known for some time but is taking a turn for the worse
Tigros in Arluno (Milan): large-scale retail does not grow, rather retreats
Tigros’ roadside advertising is misleading (deceptive), it does not say that there are categories exempt from 3×2, and that alone could be enough to say: you don’t do such things. An unseemly spectacle for the large-scale retail trade and for the country
Intensively farmed chicken breast is full of fat
A test conducted by ‘Il Salvagente’ shows us, based on the analysis of 18 chicken breasts, that the nutritional composition of this meat seems to have changed radically in recent years, with a significant increase in fat content
Coffee labels are incomplete. Here is the information we should read
Nowadays, those in front of the supermarket shelf may associate better quality with simply a higher price, but without adequate information and a good ability to recognise the quality of the flavour in the cup, it is difficult to verify this correlation
Report 9 February, about coffee
The new episode was also about the coffee we prepare at home. In particular, about the product: The best way…
Stuck in the 1980s: why European retail giants cannot keep up with Walmart’s digital revolution
The gap between US and European distribution is very wide and growing
Coldiretti makes useless and harmful propaganda against cultivated meat
Coldiretti should be dealing with something else entirely, e.g. unfair practices and worker exploitation, but prefers ‘the usual propaganda’, intimidating and harmful
‘Where Italy is going’: a 52% collapse of crops in Sardinia in the last 15 years
on unfair practices and the exploitation of workers there is little to celebrate. And the desertification of the Agricultural Institutes confirms this
Rolexes and luxury cars: the ‘Dolce Vita’ of former Conad executives under investigation for corruption
It might sound like the plot of a Totò film, but the story doesn’t even make one smile, because it was the thousands of families of dismissed employees, about whom La Stampa says nothing, who paid the price. But this is nothing new. The affair went on for years, amid complacent silences and intimidation of those who dared to write about it like me (and a few others)
