ENIT e FICO (Fabbrica Italiana Contadina), il più grande parco agroalimentare al mondo che aprirà a Bologna a ottobre 2017, insieme per attrarre milioni di visitatori attraverso la valorizzazione della cultura enogastronomica del nostro Paese. Questo l’obiettivo dell’accordo di collaborazione sottoscritto ieri a Roma dall’Agenzia Nazionale del Turi...

Ferrari will soon unveil the fastest and most powerful production car the Italian luxury performance brand has ever produced. Powered by a 790 horsepower V12 engine, the Ferrari 812 Superfast, true to its name, will be able to go from zero to 60 miles per hour in under three seconds and will have a top speed of 211 miles per hour. This won't be the...

Exports helped support Italy’s beauty sector in 2016 and the outlook is positive also for 2017. According to an economic survey conducted by Cosmetica Italia, in fact, in 2016 the industry’s global sales reached €10.5 billion, up 5% from the previous year, with exports climbing to near €4.3 billion, up 12% on a yearly basis. Estimates for this year...

People come to Arthur Avenue to stock up. On a recent Saturday afternoon, I stood outside Vincent’s Meat Market with Danielle Oteri, who leads tours of the neighborhood with her husband Christian Galliani. The window of Vincent’s is decked with fat Boston butts and whole sides of pork. Customers stream in and out carrying hefty shopping bags. Danie...

It was an historic high for sales. An absolute record for the trade surplus as well. Italy's December exports have decisively raised the full year tally, bringing the progress of 2016 to 1.1%, a result that would have been unimaginable just a few months ago. The monthly uptick (+5.7% year-on-year), according to Istat, is even a cautious calculation...

Italia è sinonimo di fascino ed eleganza. In tutto il mondo gli italiani sono famosi per quel certo non so che che, anche quando sono vestiti con semplicità, riesce a distinguerli. Si chiama stile e a New York, dove la moda è una cosa seria, gli italiani hanno una vera e propria reputazione per essere stylish. Parlando di made in Italy, quindi, è i...

The climate isn't the easiest. Economic uncertainty and political unknowns abound on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US with the new administration of Donald Trump and its protectionist and isolationist tone. And in Europe, rocked by Brexit and anxiously awaiting elections in nations that are key to the future the Union. But most of all for Ital...

The EY BaroMed Report announced that the USA is Italy's third-largest export market and the non-EU country with the largest presence of Italian firms. Italy is in the centre of the Mediterranean region, which represents approximately 15 percent of the world's GDP, according to the Report. The sixth summit between Italian and American entrepreneurs,...

What’s amaro? No, it’s not what you get when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie. That’s amore. (Thanks, Dean!) That bitter liqueur your old-school Italian relatives used to drink after a big meal? Yes, friends, that is amaro — and NPR’s All Things Considered reports that it’s getting an “American revival.” Author Brad Thomas Parsons, who w...

An innovative startup is breathing new life in the world’s most ancient wheat. This is the goal of Nutracentis, a small company in Sarnico, near the northern Italian city of Bergamo, which since 2015 buys and processes the ancient grain to make dry pasta. The idea came from co-founder Monia Caramma: after studying correlations between nutrients, sh...