This new initiative is the result of an amazing entrepreneurial team effort between multiple companies working together from North to South Italy.
This super-experience has uniquely proved to us that:
1. Italy is full of competent , motivated and available young people and companies
2. There is a pervasive DNA in Italy for going the extra-mile to achieve results
3. Internet is an incredible learning curve accelerator to build knowledge for entering into new businesses
4. The “premium oil” value chain in Salento is second to none in infrastructure and experiences to quickly achieve results. It took thousand’s years to build it and now we need to disclose its full potential by deploying it globally
5. Last but not least. We don’t have doubts anymore: Extra virgin olive oil is by far the best food in the world
We want to thank the team who collaborated in making all this possible, including but not limited to:
· Gianni De Stradis and family for having inspired the initiative, for opening all the local doors and for supplying the premium raw material.
· Matteo Gatti and Stefania Cozzi for setting up the company with the full set of all the latest legal and fiscal mechanisms
· Marianna Greco for designing all the creative side of the experience : labels, logo, package
· Oleificio Verde Bio for the diligent milling and packing
· Pietro Marasco for the quality printing and boxing of all deliverables
· Beppe Arietti and Gianmario Piovano of Solveit srl for web site design and deploy
· Francesco Forleo for advising on food brands
· Mino Russo for making available the innovative Colombo bottle can
· Adriano Giordano for the experienced insights on the web set up and selling wisdom
· Antonio Mandurino, Gianni Lezzi and Donato Taurino for nurturing our olive passion and starting up us on Terra d’ Otranto DOP (PDO)
· Luigi De Bellis for inspiring the process innovation side of the story
· Stefano Zezza for the wisdom pills on overcoming subtle olive oil roadblocks
· Elena Bove for making the necessary bank enablers available
· Formaper and Program Start with all its formal constituencies for proving top class consulting and financing help
· Amazon for making the customer shopping and logistic experience digitally available word-wide.
· Microsoft for supplying the technology tool kit, web hosting and hopefully the first oil customers
· Last but not least: Margaret Scott who has been the magic enabler … the 'premium oil', for silently and elegantly enabling the whole experience