Federalimentare-Censis: demanding consumers, 63.4% choose quality. With 179 billion euros in annual turnover, 60 thousand companies and 464 thousand employees is a leading component of the national interest.
In ten years, turnover in real terms increased by 24.7%, the number of employees by 12.2% and the value of exports by 60.3%. The food industry responds to internal expenditure which, as a share of total expenditure, is 16.6% in Italy, as is Spain.