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INTERVIEW

Interview with Marjan Nikolov, Dragan Lazarov and Zlatko Kocev,

business partners at “Bottega del Gusto”

WE BELIEVE THAT A PERIOD OF

RECOVERY AND GROWTH OF THE

ECONOMY IS COMING, ESPECIALLY

IN THE FOOD SEGMENT

Located on Maksim Gorky Street Italian sandwiches, with our products in
in Skopje, next to the Swiss Embassy, is an authentic focaccia bread.
“Bottega del Gusto”, a recently opened
store for Italian food delicacies. Thus, How did you come up with the idea
even the pickiest gourmets and lovers for such a business initiative?
of Italian food from the country get
the opportunity to buy top quality Dragan Lazarov: The idea started
products. We are talking to the three very spontaneously among us, the
business partners behind this business partners - who share the love for Italian
undertaking. For starters, what exactly food and cuisine. One of the partners,
do you sell at “Bottega del Gusto”? Marjan, lived in Italy for a long time and
traveled often, so on each trip he would
Marjan Nikolov: Our main offer are take a lot of orders from us. All that, no
food delicacies originating from Italy. We matter how much it was a pleasure for
have a large selection of meat products, us, from a practical point of view was
such as several types of prosciutto, not sustainable, because we are talking
especially prosciutto di parma, pancetta, food that is to be consumed fresh. We
typical salami such as napoli, milano, analyzed the market and found that in
felino, mortadella; as well as a selection fact there are almost no fresh delicacies
of cheeses: fresh mozzarella di bufala, from Italy and they are limited to a
burrata di bufala, parmesan, asiago, etc. few selected shops. The offer of such
We are importers of all products directly products was small and did not satisfy
from the Italian manufacturers with the picky tastes. Through our personal
whom we have excellent cooperation. In contacts in Italy we connected directly
our store one can find selected brands of with the manufacturers from where
pasta, sauces, wine and other products we procure the products. The decisive
that complete the offer. In order to factor for this step was undoubtedly the
bring the tastes closer to the consumers, support of our loved ones and friends
starting from this month we offer typical who enthusiastically supported the idea,

66 June 2021