Italy: Coop to expand private label pet food offering
Coop, the Italian retail giant, has announced it is expanding its private label cat and dog food offering with the launch of around 200 products across four separate lines. Developed in partnership with the University of Milan, the range is said to use innovative ingredients such as insect protein, as well as “superfoods” including spirulina, […]
Italy: Coop launches home cooking range
Leading Italian supermarket Coop has launched D’Osa, a new private-label line entirely dedicated to home cooking, as part of its 70th anniversary celebrations. The new range is advertised as being made with 100% raw and organic Italian ingredients, with low salt content and no artificial sweeteners, colours or thickeners. Comprising 37 items in total, ranging from […]
Italy: Leclerc and Conad to terminate alliance – reports
LSA is reporting that supermarket groups E. Leclerc and Conad are to terminate an agreement between the companies in Italy which has existed for more than 10 years. According to a source close to LSA, the move would mean that all existing partnerships between the two retail groups would cease by the end of the […]
Italy: Coop launches traceability initiative
In a move designed to demonstrate greater openness, leading Italian supermarket Coop has unveiled a new initiative allowing consumers to find out “where their food comes from”. Dubbed “Origini Trasparenti” (“Transparent Origins”), the initiative sees the launch of a website which will allow consumers to identify the origin of ingredients in more than 1,400 of […]