Berlin – It’s been a good year for Alto Adige PGI Speck, a food product best known and appreciated for its quality, authenticity and its link with the territory and tradition. In 2014, PGI speck total production reached 2.5 million hams (2,492,885 against the 2,372,845 of 2013). Alto Adige PGI Speck is one of the best-known excellent European food brands both in Italy and abroad: it has an export quota of 31%, and is thus one of the Italian delicatessen more sold abroad. Germany is by far the most important foreign market, capturing 26% of total exports, followed by the United States and Austria (tied at 2%), and new markets such as France, Belgium, Switzerland, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden and others. (9Colonne)