For comparison, France exported 84 billion euros worth of agri-food products in 2025, a figure up 2% compared to the previous year.
The international success of the Italian food industry cannot be explained only by the gastronomy of the Peninsula. In the wake of giants like the consortium bringing together parmesan producers, who opened the way, smaller producers have operated to make other PDO or PGI products known abroad, such as burrata, gorgonzola, taleggio.
For the moment, prosecco is well established and for the first time it has surpassed champagne sales in mass distribution thanks to the Spritz phenomenon.
The growth of Italian agri-food exports goes hand in hand not only with that of the entire manufacturing export of the peninsula, but also with that of other interdependent sectors, notably tourism and catering.
This success reflects a real underlying trend: the Italian agri-food industry is increasingly exporting and directly competing with its French neighbor.
France exported 84 billion euros of agri-food products in 2025, a figure up 2% compared to the previous year.
As in the previous edition, in 2024, Italians are once again the largest number of exhibitors at this event which is being held this week near Paris.