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It refrigerates, it warms and – when necessary – it disappears.
This is 24H, the total display case
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The innovation is a display case that changes function throughout the day, from refrigerator to warmer – and that can even be camouflaged as a piece of furniture during breaks in business – all at the touch of a button: this is “24H” and it is a real step forward to assisting the business of bars, ice-creameries, patisseries or a combination of these.
It bears the Orion trademark and the 24H name stands for twenty-four hours – its versatility giving it the capacity to be useful throughout the whole day. |
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Made in Italy by Nuova Simonelli for coffee champions
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You won’t believe this, but the world espresso coffee champion is not Neapolitan and not even Italian. That’s right, because there is a world competition that goes by the book: the World Barista Championship (WBC). And the winner of the most recent edition is from the United States: the espresso king is Michael Phillips. |
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Made in Italy:
how to tell the difference between counterfeit and deception
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Recent provisions concerning indication of provenance and origin of products: Italian Law no. 166 dated 20 November 2009. False and misleading indications.
False indication occurs in the case of improper use of the “Made in Italy” label and therefore when it refers to products that are not of Italian origin. |
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Restaurants, the crisis is not travelling down the motorway. Comforting news from the market of motorway restaurants. The offer is expanding and all the leading groups in the sector are aiming at innovation, quality and promoting loyalty. 2009 closed with a turnover in the motorway restaurant market on the Aspi network of more than 770 million euros, confirming the 2008 performance of +1.9%. The Autogrill rest stops are the leaders with 141 facilities, followed by the Sarni group (23 facilities), Chef Express (Cremonini group, 20), Finifast (10), MyChef (Elior group, 9), Ristop (Save, 11). (Source: largoconsumo.info)
Pasta is a favourite at the White House too. The value of Italian pasta exports has doubled in the last 10 years, to arrive at 1.8 billion euros in 2009. One out of four pasta dishes consumed globally is made in Italy, leading world producer with 3.2 million tonnes. There is an unbelievable growth of pasta consumption in the United States, where almost 8 Americans in 10 (77%) eat it at least once a week, with 33% consuming it at least three times a week, according to a survey carried out by the National Pasta Association. Some of its most famous consumers are Barack and Michelle Obama who adore "stringozzi alla carbonara" but, according to the 'Metropolitan Post', Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson and Quentin Tarantino also have their own 'personal pasta chef'. (source: Coldiretti).
The first plain biscuits? In Tuscany, 30,000 years ago. This is the estimated age of the first flour in history, like the first bread made by modern man: a biscuit cooked on red-hot stones, nourishing and pleasant-tasting. Its traces were discovered by an Italian group in Tuscany, and they published their results in the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America magazine, PNAS (source: ANSA). |
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Assofoodtec: the recovery is here but not for everyone
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Recovery is in the air for some of the sectors represented by Assofoodtec, the Italian association of machinery and plant manufacturers for food production, processing and preservation, within ANIMA/Confindustria. The association estimates that 2010 final balances will be positive for some product areas. |
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“Made in” regulation:
great benefits for the Italian mechanical industry
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The European Parliament has voted to approve the proposed labelling Regulation, making it compulsory for products imported from third party Countries to bear the “Made in” label (known as the “Made In” regulation). “I am really pleased with this news,” states Sandro Bonomi, president of ANIMA, the Federation of Italian Associations of Mechanical and Engineering Industries. |
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How to attract customers “in store”? With Proximity Marketing
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HOST – the leading international professional hospitality marketplace – is extremely sensitive to customer relations issues, both in cultural and practical terms. This interest has grown due to the availability of constantly innovative techniques and tools that can be used to attract customers and relate to them, made possible through the Internet and the state-of-the-art technology connected to that. |
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