Aug. 19 – Table cloths, kitchenwear and olive oil from Italy on foreign tables. Italy’s national food products chellenge talks about recessions and crises with a surprising +19% for champagne, +16% for olive oil, +12% for tomatos and tomato sauce, +11% for fruit, and +8% for pasta. Ismea data reveals the above thanks to a Coldiretti analysis for the first four months of 2013, in which it emerges that exports in the food sector grew by 8%, pushung the sector towards a record-breaking €34 billion foreign turnover for the whole year. The most exported product is wine, followed by fruits and vegetables, pasta and cheese.
