Aldi takes over from Bennet in Viale Monza in Milan: what does it mean?

What is happening in retail? It turns out that “In the last year, 20% of households have changed their opinion on the store with the best price/quality ratio… the local competitive scenario counts, as does the quality of the products and departments. Of the latter, fruit and vegetables remains the most important (57% of households) …

The entrepreneur: Aldo Bassetti, beer and ‘family’ water

After the First World War, the Bassettis thus acquired two of the oldest Italian breweries, Spluga in Chiavenna and Birrificio Angelo Poretti in Induno Olona. Thanks mainly to the latter, Aldo Bassetti took his beer to southern Italy and imported and distributed the great Danish brands Tuborg and Carlsberg. In addition to beer, Bassetti invested in mineral water, for example producing Frisia mineral water in the Spluga plant, which in the 1980s became the first to be marketed in Milan.

Giorgina Venosta’s friends: Inge Feltrinelli, Anna Nogara, Adriana Botti in Monti

My mother's friends, Giorgina, also became my affectionate 'protectors', as in the case of Inge Feltrinelli, who was one of the few people who did not abandon me when the worst years of my life arrived. Then Anna Nogara, actress and director, Roberto Olivetti's second wife and mother of his only daughter, who in her eighties still treads the boards. Finally Adriana Botti, later wife of Mario Monti, owner of the Longanesi publishing house