About the GS- Carrefour operation and the Benetton – Delvecchio consortium

“Someone still has to explain to me why, in a retail market that needed concentration [and expertise], the government allowed a group that didn’t even have a delicatessen, to buy GS (which belonged to Sme =IRI= Italian State!) and then resell it quietly to a foreign group (Carrefour) after a few years” Mario Gasbarrino. This also applies to the New Princes operation

Giuseppe Caprotti’s social commitment at Esselunga: caring for the environment, for people

The one related to care and concern for the environment is a project that goes back a long way, to the 1980s, the first years I spent at Esselunga, and began with organic and natural products in general. It is also the project I am most fond of because it had a soul, a social purpose, as well as a business purpose.

Quick Take — The Wall Street Journal: ‘Ferrero prepares US shopping spree and deals with Kellogg’

The American newspaper: ‘The group is working on a 3 billion deal. The target is the colossus’ breakfast products’. No confirmation from the Alba company.

The history of corn flakes is interesting and crosses over with the methods later used by Ferrero: the prizes combined with the products, already in the early 1900s, reminiscent of Kinder egg surprises.

On the ‘healthy’ corn flakes – they are full of sugar – I would instead draw a veil.

Ferrero made the acquisition directly.

Edited 10 July, updated 11 July 2025