Just nine months after the inauguration of their plant in Crespellano—a €500 million investment with 600 new jobs, making it the largest facility that produces tobacco sticks for low-risk IQOS ‘cigarettes’ in the world—Philip Morris has announced that it will double down on its Bologna-based factory: another €500 million and up to 600 further hirin...

“Vestire la casacca a stelle e strisce” per entrare nel mercato degli Stati Uniti d’America, uno dei più interessanti per l’export agroalimentare italiano: il flusso verso gli USA rappresenta il 10% delle esportazioni totali in valore e il Paese si colloca al 3° posto tra i clienti dell’Italia. L’Italia è il primo esportatore mondiale negli USA di...

Wherever in the world you go you can see the brand of Made in Italy: the shops and the street advertising in the central streets of the biggest world’s cities promote and admire the Italian refined taste. They say, fashion is the queen. If it is, the kind is with no doubt the food! Stefano Versace, an Italian entrepreneur that has actually based hi...

Steve McQueen famously said: “Life is racing. Everything else is just waiting.” In June, more than 100 drivers and their crews of the Italian motoring club proved the actor right. The Modena Cento Ore, an annual road rally race through the Northern Italian “Motor Valley” that lies between the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranean, ended as per traditi...

Italy’s Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is investing €1.2 million to increase sales in the US market by 10% in 2017. Last year, the US was the top foreign market for the Consortium. Actions will also be taken against imitation and 'Italian sounding' products, which deceive 67% of American consumers by using the Italian flag or other Italian symbols...

C'è un'Italia appassionata e apprezzata nel mondo, che produce ricchezza puntando su qualità e innovazione. Un’Italia di cui essere orgogliosi di cui spesso, però non c’è piena consapevolezza. Il rapporto I.T.A.L.I.A. 2017 – Geografie del nuovo made in Italy realizzato da Fondazione Symbola, Unioncamere e dalla Fondazione Edison di Marco Fortis, pr...

Nel 2016 gli Stati Uniti hanno guadagnato la terza posizione, dopo Francia e Germania, tra le destinazioni delle esportazioni italiane di cosmetici con una notevole crescita del 24,4% rispetto al 2015 e un valore pari a 406 milioni di euro. Questo valore rappresenta l'87,6% delle esportazioni nell'area Nafta (Canada, Messico e Stati Uniti). Le perf...

Fittingly unveiled for the Fourth of July holiday, the 2017 MV Agusta Brutale 800 America celebrates the Italian brand’s relationship with stateside customers. Based on the three-cylinder Brutale 800, the America pays tribute the the classical America range from the 1970s. Only 50 will be available to match the 50 states in America, making the bike...

The Fund of Sovereign Funds has now been created. Following the experience with the Italian Strategic Fund (FSI), this new fund will be managed by Maurizio Tamagnini, and it has a precise objective: to invest in ‘Made in Italy’, in order to bankroll the large groups with the support of major international sovereign funds: Kuwait, Qatar and, accordi...

A windowless room, state-of-the-art in both amenities and inorganic building materials, seems an unlikely place to fall harder for Italy's sunny wines, but after five days spent in the reaches of Astor Center enriched by native grapes, lectures by writer and educator Ian D'Agata and 56 glasses of Italian wine, I did. For its first venture into the ...