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Thursday, November 16, 2017. From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm. Italian Cultural Institute. 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F. San Francisco, CA 94102. Free Entrance. The city of Mantua and its surrounding region, East Lombardy, have been selected by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism as the 2017 European Capital of Gastronomy. O...

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A short walk from Milan’s busy Garibaldi train station, a new library is springing up from the ground. But this library isn’t filled with books – it is a “Library of Trees”. Transforming the grey piazza in the heart of Milan’s Porta Nuova business district began with the planting of seeds in September, and will be followed by trees and plants in N...

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Il successo di una startup? Dipende da un mix di fattori: la velocità dell’execution, cioè il passaggio dall’idea al progetto e all’ingresso sul mercato; dalla fetta di mercato che si vuole aggredire e da un pizzico di fortuna. Paolo Ganis ha 30 anni e le idee ben chiare. Tanto è vero che una delle sue idee, Clairy, il vaso smart per la purificazio...

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Not everyone takes environmental sustainability seriously as it should be: but instead, to change the behaviour of everyone we must concentrate, starting with training and the education of children, to prepare for them a better world, a breathing air “: Berardo Paradiso, an Italian entrepreneur for almost forty years in New York and president of Ia...

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The Italian cities of Milan, (literature), Alba (gastronomy), Pesaro (music) and Carrara (crafts) were among 64 cities from 44 countries to join UNESCO's list of creative cities Tuesday. Milan joined a literature circuit that includes Dublin, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Prague and Baghdad. The new entries raised to nine the number of Italian cities on th...

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Luxottica Retail North America has advised Tennessee officials it will permanently lay off 208 employees at a Hickory Hill facility Dec. 31. The Department of Labor and Workforce Development alerted Memphis-area officials Thursday that Luxottica filed a notice that a layoff would occur at 5780 E. Shelby Drive. Luxottica designs, makes and distribut...

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With the goal of promoting Italian culinary traditions and food-and-wine connoisseurship as a distinctive trait of Italian identity and culture, the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World reaches its second edition, which will take place in San Francisco and the Bay Area November 13-19, 2017. The concept of the initiative is based on a few key points...

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L’evento “Stati Uniti: International Forum. Focus on USA” si svolgerà il 27 ottobre presso l’auditorium a Milano. Obiettivo dell’incontro è aggiornare le imprese di quanto esso offra a chi è interessato a sviluppare una presenza commerciale o industriale. L’incontro è organizzato da Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza, Unicredit, e l’...

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Italy, though it is shaped like a boot, is not a natural vessel for beer. Italians drink wine, and the politicians — because they, too, drink wine, but also own fields of grapes that make it – are particularly vicious about the tax rate on breweries. But the biggest hurdle for Italy’s brewers is the simple fact that its drinking culture is inherent...

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The Italian famous fashion entrepreneur Brunello Cucinelli has just been given the Community and Social Justice Award during the Green Carpet event, organized by the  Italian Chamber of Fashion in Milan at the end of September. The prize acknowledges those business who embrace sustainable production and the reduction of environmental footprint. Cuc...

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