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2024 will be the summer of raspberry and rosemary flavored ice cream, but also that of the return to tiramisu flavour. It’s difficult to think about cones and cups today, with the cold and rain still enveloping a spring that is slow to take off. Yet, as soon as the heat arrives, ice cream consumption will start again and indeed, this year it will grow by 6%, with peaks of 12% in art cities, where tourists are looking for refreshment.
The forecasts come from the observatory of Sigep, the international exhibition of artisanal desserts that the Italian exhibition group organizes every year at the Rimini Fair (the next edition will be from 18 to 22 January 2025). In the five largest European countries – Italy, Spain , France, Germany and Great Britain – last year 2.2 billion ice creams were sold, with a growth of 4.7% compared to 2022. Our country remains the main market, with 28% of the servings ice cream served.
What flavors will we find this summer in artisanal ice cream shops? According to Giancarlo Timballo, master ice cream maker and president of the Ice Cream World Cup, the trend will be to create new flavors by drawing from local traditions and working on local products: his proposal is raspberry with rosemary. For the Roman Eugenio Morrone, however, customers will pay more and more attention to products with little sugar and little fat. Dairy-free ice creams will be very popular: not only with fruit, but also prepared with cocoa mass or pistachio. Tiramisu flavour, a great classic of the cones of the past, already seems to be popular among foreign tourists. Finally, Domenico Belmonte from Campania is ready to bet on the return of creams, but also on the boom in exotic fruit, including mango and passion fruit.
In Spain in the last two years the trend has been to purchase ice cream with low sugar content, but classic flavors such as nougat, vanilla and chocolate remain. Here too, the prospects for summer 2024 are optimistic, with an increase in consumption expected between 3% and 5%. German consumers, however, remain fond of the great classics but without giving up their curiosity for new things: Dario Fontanella, founder of an ice cream shop in Mannheim, Germany, offers for example a white chocolate ice cream with asparagus, typical of the Baden-Württemberg region, but also a bergamot cone with curry and wasabi.
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Prime Minister of Georgia on the role of the Middle Corridor
– 2024-05-05 07:14:44
The middle corridor provides a reliable alternative.
As Day.Az reported on Saturday with reference to Trend, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said this at the opening ceremony of the meeting of the ADB Board of Governors in Tbilisi.
“Our unique location allows us to be part of Europe and at the same time have the status of one of the key countries of the historical Silk Road. We are also part of the Middle Corridor, which offers a safe and reliable alternative,” he emphasized.
Kobakhidze mentioned that Georgia will continue to support and offer the best investment opportunities to Asian partners.
“With great pleasure and pride, I want to say that for the country and for the entire region, our main task is to ensure the prosperity and well-being of the Georgian people and the Georgian state. At the same time, I want to say that in this spirit we have maintained macroeconomic stability. In the post-pandemic period, we delivered double-digit economic growth, with a three-year average of 9.7% economic growth. We continue to maintain economic growth momentum.
The slogan of the event is “Bridge to the Future”, which offers a very valuable platform for economic development, development of future plans and interaction, and to combat global challenges. At the same time, this phrase is a very good explanation of our future aspirations. With every step we take, we create an economically strong, safe and secure future for other generations. This vision is enhanced and strengthened by a strategic location that connects Europe to Asia and Asia to Europe,” he added.
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Prime Minister of Georgia on the role of the Middle Corridor – 2024-05-05 07:14:44
US Stocks Rise After Non-Farm Payrolls Report, Sheriff Adel (Washington)
Sheriff Adel (Washington)
US stocks rose in trading on Friday after the non-farm payrolls report revived hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut US interest rates soon, so its three main indexes jumped, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 450 points to its value at the start. of today’s trade.
In the last trading days of the week, the points added to the world’s most famous index represented an increase of 1.18%, while the S&P 500 index rose, which mainly reflecting sectors of the American economy, 1.26%, while gains in the Nasdaq index, which is full of technology companies, reached almost 2%.
On the weekly level, all three indices were in the green zone, as the Dow Jones rose 1.14%, and the Nasdaq by 1.43%, while the S&P rose only 0.55%, which despite the poor start to the trading week on Monday and Tuesday.
The non-farm payrolls report released in Washington on Friday showed that US companies added 175,000 jobs in April, less than the 240,000 jobs expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
The unemployment rate rose to 3.9% from 3.8% the previous month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and wage numbers were lower than expected, all signs of a decline in stubborn inflation in the economy. biggest in the world.
Emily Rowland, chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management, said: This has already eased investor fears that the economy could overheat or accelerate again, which is re- encouraging hope for lower interest rates. That’s why interest rates fell, bonds rose, which drove stock markets higher. Bad news for the jobs market means that the Fed may be able to start cutting rates as early as this year.
After weaker-than-expected job growth in April and modest wage gains, traders revised their expectations for the Federal Reserve’s decisions, to reflect two cuts totaling 0.50%, before end of the year, according to the Federal Reserve Monitor tool of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Markets are currently expecting an interest rate cut of 0.25% at the Federal Reserve meeting next September.
Interest rates also fell after the staff report, with the 10-year Treasury yield briefly falling below 4.5%, which contributed to a rise in shares of major technology companies, which are highly sensitive. on interest rate expectations. Shares of artificial intelligence leader Nvidia and AMD rose more than 3%, while Microsoft and Meta Platforms rose 2% each, while the information technology sector rose to a record. -target S&P by 3%.
Strong business results from the top companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average added to Friday’s gains, with Apple shares rising nearly 6% after it announced a $110 billion share buyback, beating expectations the income and profits, in the last quarter.
2024-05-04 21:30:26
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