Redazione

📦 REPA, Europe's leading distributor of spare parts for food service equipment, joined Parts Town Unlimited in 2022 and now becomes the Official Global Distributor for Eureka, a Florence-based artisanal coffee grinder manufacturer. The collaboration enables REPA to offer an assortment of 3,700 original spare parts and over 400 maintenance kits, handling orders and shipments for Eureka. Eureka, established in 1920 in Florence, is recognized for hand-assembling coffee grinders and prioritizes innovative design, technology, and customer service.

🍺 AssoBirra, representing Italy's beer sector, requests the government to cut beer excise taxes by 2 cents and restore craft brewery discounts up to 60,000 hectoliters ahead of the 2025 Budget Law, aiming to reduce excise to €2.97 per hectoliter degree Plato, offsetting the market's over 5% loss. In 2023, production fell to 17.4 million hectoliters, down by 5.02% from the previous year, with national consumption at 21.2 million hectoliters, declining by 5.85%. The first half of 2024 saw a 10.2% rise in beer imports amidst ongoing market contraction. The beer sector employs about 103,000 people, with excise taxes heavily impacting the price of beer, making up roughly 80 cents for draft beer and 40% of the price for the most sold 0.66-liter bottles in supermarkets.