In Illinois, which alone is worth a third of Italian GDP, the number one imported product from Italy is this: machinery. And it is not by chance, the ICE-Italian Trade Agency joint mission, Ucimu-Sistemiper produrre, the Ministry of Economic Development and Confindustria chose Chicago, the key manufacturing hub of the United States, in order to ill...

L'Agenzia Ice, insieme ad Assocalzaturifici, torna alla fiera Platform di Las Vegas – in programma da domani a giovedì – dopo circa 10 anni di partecipazione alla fiera FFANY di New York visti i deludenti risultati delle ultime edizioni.   Infatti, nonostante le difficoltà di individuazione di una manifestazione settoriale di punta, è import...

Today, Eataly New York and the Italian American Committee on Education (IACE) announced the launch of "Short Food Movie: The Oscars at Eataly," a contest to create a food-themed video less than one minute long using a smartphone, tablet, or video camera.   This initiative is an extension of the EXPO Milan 2015 "Short Food Movie" program them...

L'Italia si conferma, nel 2012, il primo fornitore di vini degli Stati Uniti e il fatturato delle aziende vinicole tricolori sul mercato Usa è stato pari a 1,5 miliardi di dollari per una quota di mercato del 29,2% del totale importato. Le cifre, pubblicate dallo U.S. Department of Commerce, è stato diffuso dall'Ice (Agenzia per la promozione all'e...

At the 2014 edition of Techtextil North America (from 13 to 15 May in Atlanta) ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, and ICE-Italian Trade Agency have organized a Meeting Point where 13 Italian machinery manufacturers, involved in the production of machines for technical textiles, will show their innovative solutions....

Fendi has opened its first store in Miami's Design District, unveiling a new concept in collaboration with architect Johanna Grawunder. Pietro Beccari, chairman and chief executive officer of the Rome-based firm, underscored the brand's and store's links with design and art.   To wit, the new 5,400-square-foot, two-story unit is decorat...

Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Commission have announced their official call for entries for the 2015 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition. Now in its third decade, the annual awards program honors the work of North American architects and designers who create exceptional spaces using Italian cerami...

It's a massive market which still has considerable room for growth in Italy. The global video games industry represents a market of 80 billion euros and in Italy, where it has already overtaken cinema and music, it is worth almost one billion euros.   Thus, the Italian industry is not about to miss the largest world event dedicated to video...

Il flusso dell'arredamento italiano verso gli Usa è cresciuto negli ultimi anni a ritmi importanti. L'Italia rappresenta per gli USA il 6° paese nel mondo e primo europeo, quale fornitore di arredi, registrando esportazioni verso gli Stati Uniti per un valore di circa 976 milioni di euro nel 2014 e 719 milioni di euro considerando i primi 9 me...

The selection of the candidacies received from young foreign students for the Invest Your Talent in Italy programme has been successfully completed.   A total of 587 applications were filed for the 55 scholarships offered by the partners of the programme (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Agenzia ICE and Uni-Ital...