Italy's fresh produce trade is mourning the loss of Danila Bragantini, one of the industry's leading lights, who passed away last Thursday following a long period of ill health.
Considered one of the best fruit traders of her generation, Bragantini and her brothers Giuseppe and Angelo developed and expanded the family import-export business first started in Verona in the 1920s by her grandfather Angelo, helping it to become one of Italy's key fruit suppliers – notably for cherries and apples.
Danila was instrumental not only in continuing the work done by her father Marco to build Bragantini as a company, but also in helping put the Italian fresh produce export trade on the map as the European marketplace became increasingly interconnected.
At the time of her death, she was serving the industry as deputy chairman of Italian association Fruitimprese and president of the group's Veneto branch.
Fruitimprese president Marco Salvi commented: 'Danila was primarily a good friend, a business woman of high level and an irreplaceable consultant.
'She was persistent, courageous and far-sighted, and was considered a reference point and example for all of us at Fruitimprese, an organisation that she particularly supported.'
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