Italy

SPAR Helps Croatian Manufacturers Generate Turnover Of €145m In 2022

Croatian manufacturers generated a turnover of €145 million in 2022 from the sales of their goods through the SPAR network in Italy, Austria, Slovenia...

Esselunga Opens New Supermarket In Albenga

Italian retailer Esselunga has announced the opening of its first supermarket in Albenga in the Cime di Leca Region in Italy.

Kerry Opens New Innovation Centre In Barcelona

Taste and nutrition firm Kerry has opened its Southern Europe Innovation Centre in Barcelona, Spain, as part of an expansion plan.

Italy To Cut Rice Output As Drought Looms For Second Year

Italian rice output is set to fall in 2023 as farmers facing a second year of drought reduce the land dedicated to the crop to the lowest for more than two...

Parmigiano Reggiano Says Turnover Reached An 'All-Time High' In 2022

The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium has reported an all-time high consumer turnover of €2.9 billion in its financial year 2022, registering an increase...

Italian Large-Scale Retail Sector Sees Sales Up, Margins Decline In 2022

The Italian large-scale food retail sector reported 6.7% sales growth in 2022, albeit with EBIT margin declining to 1.4% from 2.4% in the previous year, ne...

Codè Crai Ovest Targets 45 Store Openings In 2023

Italian retail cooperative Codè Crai Ovest has ended 2022 with a turnover of €320 million, compared to €310 million a year earlier, and th...

Italian Fruit Consumption Impacted By Low Availability, Says Coldiretti

High prices and climate change have decimated harvests, with the result that Italians are buying less and less fruit, new data from Italian farmers associa...