One year after Investindustrial, an investment firm founded by Andrea Bonomi, acquired 52% of the large food chain Eataly, the 55-year-old new CEO Andrea Cipolloni explains the group's strategies. "The United States and Canada are our lighthouse: here we have given an important boost to the development of Eataly, and we plan to open approximately twenty new stores in the next four to five years, doubling the number of stores from the current eleven," says Cipolloni, who spends an average of ten days per month in the United States, in an interview with Repubblica. "In the USA all our stores work, because we are a gate that brings the excellence made in Italy to the rest of the world”. The arrival in Philadelphia ("we have already signed the contract") and Miami, with two stores, are expected to be among the new openings. The goal is to "double the American turnover," which is already worth roughly 470 million euros out of the group's expected total revenues of 675 million at the end of 2023, up 12% from 602 million in 2022 (502 million in 2019), anticipates to the senior manager. Italy, where the group has 12 direct outlets, is valued approximately 160 million.