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  • Serie A club, Napoli partners Amazon to launch merchandise store

    Serie A club, Napoli partners Amazon to launch merchandise store

    MUMBAI: The runner-up club of 2017-18 season, Napoli in Serie A has tied-up with e-commerce giant Amazon to launch an exclusive brand store. The Napoli Amazon brand store has been launched featuring official team products from the club’s technical supplier Kappa along with a full range of Napoli Calcio-licensed merchandise.

    Napoli hope the new partnership will make it easier for its international fans to access kit and merchandise.

    Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis said, “Napoli have become a regular fixture among the top 20 clubs in UEFA rankings, have over 40 million fans worldwide as well as a further 120 million with a passing interest. It is very important to us to be able to offer them easy access to our merchandise, and Amazon offer extraordinarily efficient distribution and order management services,” according to Sportspromedia.com.

    The club released its 2018-19 season kit which is starting from 19 August 2018 and the partnership will also reach other markets like Italy, France, the UK and Spain, with the aim to launch in the North American market in the near future.

    The Amazon partnership is part of the club’s international development strategy designed to strengthen the Napoli brand in foreign markets.

  • Aurelio De Laurentiis announces $ 100 mn expansion plan

    Aurelio De Laurentiis announces $ 100 mn expansion plan

    MUMBAI: Italian film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis has announced an ambitious $100 million expansion plan for his Filmauro production house. He has also opined on a variety of topics including a new strategy for film distribution, criticism of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti‘s alleged disinterest in film and an end to Filmauro‘s highly profitable Christmas film franchise.

    The expansion plans, involving Universal Pictures International Italy, were the centerpiece of the gregarious De Laurentiis‘ meandering 80-minute monologue at Universal‘s Rome headquarters, with Universal Italy president Richard Borg and De Laurentiis‘ son, Luigi De Laurentiis also present.

    De Laurentiis said he would produce at least 20 films in conjunction with Universal Italy, including some international titles. Among them: the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs: Get Inspired and a yet-unnamed project he said would be based on a Truman Capote story and would star Leonardo DiCaprio and Ryan Gosling.

    De Laurentiis, 63, nephew of the late famed producer Dino De Laurentiis, also predicted that comedic actor Christian De Sica, the son of iconic Italian director Vittorio De Sica would try his hand increasingly at directing in the future.

    The Italian productions he said are in the works include Colpi di fulmine (Lightning Strike), the latest comedy from Neri Parenti, a comedy he said would be called Mr. Love, another featuring popular comic Carlo Verdone called Sei personaggi in cerca d‘amore (Six Characters in Search of Love) and three films from young director Alberto Ferrari, including one that De Laurentiis said Oscar-winning actor and director Roberto Benigni wanted but that De Laurentiis snatched away from him.

    The producer also said that he would make his first foray into television next year, with a project of six 100-minute episodes taken from a book by best-selling author Giorgio Faletti.

    He also said he soon will travel to Los Angeles to meet with Universal brass to discuss a still wider agreement with the company, covering territories other than Italy.