Share your coffee stories with us by writing to info@comunicaffe.com.
ROME, Italy – Following last year’s controversy over the decision to purchase 67,400 coffee capsules from Swiss company Nespresso for employees and guests, the Italian Prime Minister’s Office has decided to change course: from next year, the coffee served at Palazzo Chigi will once again be strictly made in Italy.
In fact, according to the daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, the Office has recently ordered a new stock of capsules, in quantities ranging from 70,000 to 96,000 units.
And this time they opted for an entirely Italian supply from Ivs Italia Spa, a leading operator in the foodservice sector and particularly on the market of beverage and snack vending machines acquired by the Lavazza group last year.
The capsules will be accompanied by compostable paper cups, wooden stirrers and sugar sachets, in accordance with the environmental criteria for public administration purchases, reports to the Roman daily Il Messaggero.
An order worth over €32,000 in total, with an average cost of around 46 euro cents per coffee.
