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...The meat, dairy and vegetable producers can no longer cope because they have to pay more for everything . . ....
...If it’s true that, as explained by food historian and Parma university professor Alberto Grandi, the most authentic kind of Parmesan cheese can now only be found in Wisconsin, that carbonara pasta was invented...
...It creates uncertainty,” said Alberto Gavazzi, who oversees spirits group Diageo’s operations in Latin America....
...The recent successful float of dairy company Lala, for example, proves that there is scarcity value in that latter sector, and lots of appetite....
...Two of Parmalat’s minority shareholders have written to the board of the Italian dairy company saying the $904m acquisition of Lactalis America Group, a dairy owned by the French family that controls Parmalat...
...crisis has made extraordinary interventions by governments more palatable, and people who six or seven years ago would have criticised a direct investment by the government now see it differently,” says Alberto...
...Late last year PepsiCo made a $5.4bn bet on the Russian food and drinks market through the acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann, the dairy and fruit juice company....
...It is by Diego Giacometti, brother of the more famous Alberto....
...And on Monday, Alberto Alessi will also be in London, in conversation with Design Museum director Deayan Sudjic about Museo Alessi’s Design Interviews DVDs....
...Alberto Fernández, cabinet chief, calls Argentina a “recovered alcoholic” whose reckless old ways have changed for good....
...As Alberto Buffa di Perrero, analyst at S&P, says: “You can purchase anything with enough money, even the Colosseum. But not Mediobanca.”...
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