Brunello Cucinelli FY profit up on double-digit sales
Italian luxury fashion group Brunello Cucinelli SpA has reported an increase in full-year profit, thanks to double-digit sales growth. Sales in the group's international markets, which now represent 79.3% of revenues, rose 21.4% during the year ending 31 December. Read more Fonte: Italian Good News
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Immigrant Settlement Was a Legacy of Pride (How Green Was the Valley)
By Cookie Curci My grandmother would often say of her people: "we were like the letters of the alphabet, alone we had little meaning, but together we were part of a great meaning." My grandfather was never a man of many words, but when he spoke we listened. Though his words were few they were filled with wisdom. He would of...
Gennaro Lombardi: Italian of the Week
Trained as a pizzaiolo and baker in Naples, Gennaro Lombardi came to America when he was just 14 years old. He settled in the Little Italy section of New York City, and began to bake for a small grocery store on Spring Street. He also started to bake and sell pizzas in the back of the store. Several years later, Gennaro purchased the grocery store...
Oetzi the Iceman to go on North American tour
Italy's famous Iceman mummy, Oetzi, is set to tour the United States and Canada after a plan to make a lifesize copy was unveiled at the Alto Adige Archaeological Museum Wednesday. The sculpture, crafted by top US 'palaeo-artist' Gary Staab, in collaboration with the Cold Spring Harbor Dna Learning Center in New York, will start its tour in Octobe...
Baldinini opens first ever store in the U.S.
The new store offsets Baldinini's strategic plan to move into the U.S. retail market. While the brand has participated in the market for the past five years, this is a way that the company can have real roots in the U.S. with a bricks-and-mortar flagship. Currently, the brand already conducts 5 percent of their business in the U.S. This mo...
Ferrari S.p.A. Joins NIAF Efforts to Support Earthquake Victims in Italy
Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. has joined the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in aiding victims of the 2016 earthquakes in central Italy. On December 3, Ferrari S.p.A. donated a one-of-a-kind 949hp LaFerrari hypercar coupé to RM Sotheby's Charity Sale to benefit NIAF's Italian American Relief Fund, a coordinated effort t...
Italian Food in Crisis? Italians, Their Food, and the Foreign Press
Over the past few days, a couple of pieces in the American press -- later translated in Italian media -- have drawn attention to some of the least glamorous aspects of the culinary trend "Made in Italy." In The New York Times, a graphic piece by Nicholas Blechman entitled "Extra Virgin Suicide: The Adulteration of Italian Olive Oil" illust...
820 mila dollari per TOK.tv, angels IAG tra gli investitori
Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), la principale associazione italiana di business angel, annuncia la partecipazione dei propri soci all'investimento realizzato da venture capitalist e business angel statunitensi nella startup TOK.tv chiuso nei giorni scorsi per la cifra di 820 mila dollari. I soci IAG intervengono nell'investimento con la cifra di...
Ma quell’accordo può segnare il destino del falso “parmeggiano” che piace agli Usa
di Federico Rampini Da consumatore italiano che fa la spesa nei supermercati americani, forse mi verrà risparmiata un giorno l'offesa del "Parmesan" o del "Parmeggiano" (sic)? La smetterà un allevatore dell'Iowa di rifilare agli ipermercati Whole Foods un prosciutto crudo che si pretende uguale al nostro? L'America riserva tante sorprese:...
Italy's Agnellis eye sale of U.S. property firm Cushman & Wakefield
by Danilo Masoni Exor (EXOR.MI), the Italian investment holding company controlled by the Agnelli family, is considering a possible sale of Cushman & Wakefield, the world's third-largest real estate company, and could have a clearer picture in the next month or so, Exor's chairman, John Elkann, said on Tuesday. "We have received m...
Head Transplants By 2016? Italian Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero Tells Annapolis Scientists It's Possible
by Barbara Herman It sounds like the plot of a 1950s B-movie, but Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero's desire is sincere: He wants to perform the first human head transplant. Canavero pitched the idea to potential donors and scientists at a conference of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons in Annapolis, Maryland,...