Alifood’s Thoughts

The most recent addition to our team of highly skilled professionals is a new Logistics Specialist, Sofia Baretto. She joined our company last November and, despite having been with us for only a couple of months, she has already shown a great ability in dealing with the hectic pace of our job. Her degree in Translation and Interpreting makes Sofia fluent in both English and Russian; she also has an intermediate knowledge of French and Spanish and she knows the basics of Chinese and Latvian. Her remarkable language skills - paired with her Master’s degree in Economy and Languages of…

A conversation with our CEO, Vittorio Doria Lamba It was back in 1995 when Alifood first started exporting top-quality Italian food to Japan. More than 25 years ago, more than a quarter of a century. It sounds like a lifetime ago yet Alifood is still growing stronger, sharing the pleasure of Italian food excellences with numerous countries worldwide: from India to Russia, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Chile, Vietnam...the list is endless. What is the secret to this longevity? "The credit to this success belongs to the whole Alifood team. Getting the right people on board, giving them the time to know…

According to Warren Buffet, accounting is the language of business. It is not just about terminology, it is more about that internal grammar which regulates a company’s daily activities. The functions performed by our accounting department serve as the basis for all financial business communication within our organization: this is why we hired professionals who are literally accountable for their tasks and responsibilities. Chiara Orsetta Antonioli is one of them. Before joining Alifood in 2013, Chiara Orsetta already had seventeen years’ work experience -gained in two important companies - that strengthened her knowledge and reinforced the accounting skills that she…

Acting as the focal point between international demand and local supply entails having in place an organization that functions perfectly, almost around the clock. Ours is structured around three main business units: Commercial, Logistics and Administration. If the activities of the first two revolve around our clients’ specific needs in order to match them with customized solutions, the latter is made of professionals who coordinate and supervise our internal workflow. Ilaria Oliva has been our Administrative Manager for fifteen years now. After graduating in Economics and Business Administration, she first joined our company back in 2003 for a six-months internship.…

Exporting the culture of the Italian way of eating has led our activities since 1997, when Alifood was founded. After almost 25 years in the business, we now have a portfolio of over 250 products that we export in 19 different countries across the world. In our organization the Export Manager - the professional that serves as an intermediary between our foreign clients and domestic suppliers - is an essential figure. Carolina Bassino is one of them. After taking a diploma in Account and Product Management, Carolina took her first professional steps in her family business: a company operating in…

According to Sun Tzu, a famous Chinese philosopher, the line between disorder and order lies in logistics. We very much agree with his statement and this is why our Logistics Department is the one that counts the largest number of professionals. Claudia Fretta, our Logistics and Document Department Specialist is one of them. Trained as an accountant and business expert, Claudia joined Alifood back in 2012 after a couple of important work experiences in the logistics department of an import/export company first, then a shipping agency. When she started working with us, she was in charge of the vast majority…

True to her favourite motto "Carpe Diem", Francesca Fossati is great at seizing the moment: she did it a long time ago, when Alifood was at the very beginning, and she stayed with us for almost ten years. She did it again in 2014 when she joined our company for the second time, after other important work experiences. She keeps doing it every day now, bringing into her daily routine the remarkable capacity of always identifying the best option. Francesca is our Logistics Department Specialist: she is in charge of selecting and managing the best logistics solutions for all our…

Henry Ford once said that coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success. Despite the passing of time, his idea of a well-functioning team still holds very true, especially for us. In order to implement our vision of providing a bespoke service in making healthy ingredients and great food accessible to everybody in the world, we constantly rely on a close collaboration among all our personnel. This is why we created a friendly work environment where successes are always shared. With us since March 2008, Elisabetta Doria Lamba has witnessed many of them. Her degree…

According to a famous quote by Simon Sinek “customers will never love a company until the employees love it first”. In our case, since the vast majority of our activities is based on good human relationships managed with professionalism, our personnel are the soul of our business and their attitudes translate into all the products and services we offer. This is why in Alifood we constantly work on improving our workplace and our internal procedures in order to create an environment that maximizes their retention rate. Chiara Campanella has been part of our team since 2013 but she has known…

When we founded Alifood, back in 1997, we had this grand vision of setting up an export company of Italian food excellences that could manage the entire production and distribution process, “from field to fork”. Our strive for perfection soon led us to realize that a great vision would have been irrelevant without great products and great people: this is why, after so many years, we still carefully select all the producers we work with and we pay the same attention in selecting our food-enthusiast personnel. Giulia Nuzzo has been with us for almost two years now. With a significant…

Steve Jobs used to say that great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people: this is why at Alifood we always select our personnel with the utmost care in order to guarantee the high-standard services that we have been providing to our clients since 1997. Being a word-leading trading company that markets Italian products also entails creating a team of international professionals who have both the expertise to understand the needs of different clients all over the word and the passion for the high-quality food produced in our country. Our…