Vinitaly 2016
13.04.2016
TAKE 1 Renzi and Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba e-commerce portal, at Vinitaly
Prime Minister: "The 50 billion euro agro-food export target by 2020 is possible"
The Chinese entrepreneur and owner of digital commerce giant launches the wine day on 9 September
Verona, 11 April 2016 – "Two years ago, we set ourselves the goal at Vinitaly of achieving 7.5 billion euros of wine exports by 2020 of 50 billion euros in the overall agro-food sector. The figure then was 30 billion euros and today we have moved up to 36.9 billions: the respective figures for wine are 4.9 billion and 5.4 billion euros: we can do it. Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina is in the front line in this direction."
So said the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, during his visit on the second day of the 50th Vinitaly. He was welcomed by the President of Veronafiere, Maurizio Danese and the CEO & Director General, Giovanni Mantovani.
TAKE 2 Danese: Vinitaly and China - "The future will also run on digital platforms" Mantovani: "Veronafiere has organised promotion activities in China for 20 years"
Verona, 11 April 2016 – "We cannot but share the position of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the founder of the e-commerce portal Alibaba, Jack Ma, because the future will also run on digital platforms. VeronaFiere, in fact, was the first - with its Vinitaly Wine Club platform - to promote on-line sales of the best Italian wines and we firmly believe that there are still large margins for growth of our agro-food products – especially wine."
