Trends Food & beverage: Italian exports resist despite the crisis Italian food & beverage exports have their best performing categories: spirits and liqueurs…
Meat & Salumi How EU’s Beating Cancer Plan puts Italy’s meat production at risk According to Assica, the Italian meat and cured meat industry association, the plan aims at…
M & A Barilla buys Catelli Dry Pasta in €107m deal The Italian pasta giant keeps on growing abroad. The acquisition of the Canadian brand…
Laws & Labels Italy’s PDOs and PGIs get protection in Japan, South Korea Thanks to the recent EU-Japan and EU-South Korea bilateral free trade agreements an updated…
Laws & Labels The rise of Covid-related claims on Italian food labels A Nielsen survey investigates the impact of the pandemic fueled health emergency on the…
Trends Russia: 30% of F&B products on the shelves come from Italy Despite the embargo imposed in 2014 on fresh produce, Italian food products’ exports…
Trends Food and retail, the winning in-store trends in 2021 Assortment, location, promotions and omnichannel: the factors to grow in the "next normal"…
Laws & Labels US duties, Italy relies on Joe Biden The change of the US administration should favor multilateral trade agreements as Italian…
Trends The impact of global recession on Italian food exports In 2020 F&B was the only growing economic sector considering the demand from foreign…
Trends Organic food consumption in Italy reaches €3.3 billion Italy is the leading EU country for number of organic operators
Laws & Labels US additional duties to hit brandy, cognac Italy’s wine is safe from new tariffs of 25% that will soon be applied on many EU’s…
M & A Balsamic Vinegar: Monari Federzoni acquires Fattorie Giacobazzi from Granarolo Italian dairy leading company Granarolo continues to divest collateral assets in order to…
Trends Protection of Italian restaurants abroad: here’s the law MISE (Italian Minister of Economic Development) presented a law with 13 points to protect…
M & A M&A, the 2020 Italian food most important transactions The pandemic failed to slow down acquisitions and financial operations in the food…
Laws & Labels The positive effects of Brexit agreement on Italy’s F&B, explained After the no deal has been avoided, it will still be necessary to keep a close watch to…
Trends How Covid pandemic could get in the way of Italian PDO Economy This year Italian Geographical Indications’ total sales could drop by 3.4 billion euros…
Laws & Labels Italy to postpone sugar tax to 2022 The soft drink tax, which was scheduled to start in July 2021, will likely be delayed until…
M & A Ferrero to acquire Eat Natural The Italian confectionery giant’s expansion plan on foreign markets doesn’t stop.…
