Italian company eyes potential investments in the US, according to executives speaking at stock exchange event in Milan
Italian fresh produce group Orsero is eyeing potential acquisitions in the US, as it continues to prioritise the sale of higher-value products including berries, avocados, and mangoes.
That’s according to company executives who were speaking at the recent Mid & Small Milan 2025 investment conference, as reported by Teleborsa – the press agency of the Italian Stock Exchange.
Rebecca Cancellieri, the group’s investor relations specialist, confirmed the group is actively examining the North American market.
“The company is analysing and considering a new geographical region, namely North America and more specifically the United States, where we are examining several potential targets,” she revealed.
The expansion would mark a significant geographic shift beyond the group’s present focus on Europe.
Cancellieri added: “What is of interest to us is always to focus on high value-added products and therefore, should we proceed with an M&A deal, we will look at companies that handle products with intrinsic margins and high added value, not commodity products.”
The group’s first nine months of 2025 have exceeded expectations. Also speaking at the event, Orsero’s reporting and IR manager Edoardo Dupanloup confirmed that its revenue was growing at double-digit rates, with strong margins.
Key to that growth has been a commercial strategy based on premium products, he explained.
“The focus is on what we call value-added products: these are essentially product categories that show more favourable consumption trends, with increasing value, in a fruit and vegetable market that has a fairly stable volume.”
Berries and exotics command significantly higher per-kilo prices than staples like bananas, enabling better margins, he observed.
