{"id":71543,"date":"2011-12-05T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/pin\/week-november-28-december-2\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T09:28:13","slug":"week-november-28-december-2","status":"publish","type":"pin","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/pin\/week-november-28-december-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The week of November 28 &#8211; December 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Italian industry is banking on foreign markets<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> One of the leading Italian-interest stories appearing in the pages of the foreign press this week was how the country\u2019s industry is staking its future on its foreign market presence:<em> Valor Econ\u00f4mico<\/em> devoted half a page to Pirelli\u2019s investment in the growth of its business in Brazil (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valor.com.br\/empresas\/1116368\/pirelli-ira-investir-no-pais-r-1-bi-ate-2015\">Pirelli ir\u00e1 investito no pa\u00eds R$ 1 bi at\u00e9 2015<\/a>* on November 30), as well as picking up news of the acquisition in Brazil of Tecnol by the eyewear multinational <strong>Luxottica<\/strong> (Luxottica compra grupo Tecnol, do Brasil, por 110 milhoes*<em> in Valor Econ\u00f4mico<\/em> on December 2).<\/p>\n<p>Albeit in shorter articles, attention was also focused by the French business daily <em>Les Echos<\/em> on the record deal worth over 1 billion dollars signed by the Finmeccanica group, through its subsidiary <strong>Ansaldo STS<\/strong>, for the building of a new metro line in Honolulu, Hawaii, whilst <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported that Prada is proving resilient in the face of the euro zone\u2019s debt crisis thanks to its strong presence in emerging markets (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204262304577068113531581268.html?KEYWORDS=prada\">Prada\u2019s Profit Surges 75%<\/a>* on November 30). Finally, <em>Les Echos<\/em> looked at the new models <strong>Piaggio<\/strong> hopes will help it maintain its European leadership in the two-wheeler market (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesechos.fr\/entreprises-secteurs\/auto-transport\/actu\/0201765820746-piaggio-conforte-sa-place-de-leader-europeen-en-jouant-sur-la-tradition-255286.php\">Piaggio conforte sa place de leader europ\u00e9en en jouant sur la tradition<\/a> on November 29).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leading Italian figures in fashion design and art<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> Of the various articles published in the week dealing with prominent Italians, worthy of particular mention are the profile in the German weekly paper <em>Die Zeit<\/em> of fashion designer <strong>Giorgio Armani<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2011\/49\/Giorgio-Armani\">Armani und wie er die Welt sieh<\/a> on December 1). There was also renewed interest in the foreign press in Italian art and culture, with <em>The Moscow Times<\/em> reviewing the <strong>Caravaggio<\/strong> exhibition being held at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/arts_n_ideas\/article\/caravaggio-on-show-at-pushkin\/449086.html\">Caravaggio on Show at Pushkin<\/a> on December 2) and the <em>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung <\/em>focusing on the works of <strong>Perugino<\/strong> on show in Munich (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/feuilleton\/kunst\/il-perugino-in-muenchen-ein-mann-aus-umbrien-11546817.html\">Ein Mann aus Umbrien<\/a> on December 1).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* marked articles viewable online upon payment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Italian industry is banking on foreign markets<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> One of the leading Italian-interest stories appearing in the pages of the foreign press this week was how the country\u2019s industry is staking its future on its foreign market presence:<em> Valor Econ\u00f4mico<\/em> devoted half a page to Pirelli\u2019s investment in the growth of its business in Brazil (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valor.com.br\/empresas\/1116368\/pirelli-ira-investir-no-pais-r-1-bi-ate-2015\">Pirelli ir\u00e1 investito no pa\u00eds R$ 1 bi at\u00e9 2015<\/a>* on November 30), as well as picking up news of the acquisition in Brazil <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2357,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"freetags":[],"tipologiapin":[2375],"tag_tecnica":[],"temi_aspen":[],"attivita_internaz_in_essere":[],"attivita_internaz_concluse":[],"studi_e_ricerche":[],"class_list":["post-71543","pin","type-pin","status-publish","hentry","tipologiapin-foreign-press-italys-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pin\/71543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pin"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pin\/71543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"freetags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/freetags?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"tipologiapin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologiapin?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"tag_tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_tecnica?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"temi_aspen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/temi_aspen?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"attivita_internaz_in_essere","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attivita_internaz_in_essere?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"attivita_internaz_concluse","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attivita_internaz_concluse?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"studi_e_ricerche","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/studi_e_ricerche?post=71543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}