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Hazelnut is the most relevant ingredients for Ferrero products. It is our key element of disncveness and uniqueness. It is what sets us apart from our competors. The Langhe Area is a land of high quality hazelnuts (the Tonda Genle Trilobata delle Langhe) and a land of inspiraon for our founder Michele Ferrero to create global hazelnut‐based products, like Nutella, Ferrero Rocher and Kinder Bueno. Nowadays, Ferrero is by far the largest hazelnut user globally, selecng only the best variees largely from Turkey, Italy and Chile. The global demand for hazelnut is constantly growing, boosted by confeconery industry but also by new nutrional and healthy trends for dried fruits products. Consumers are asking for quality, safety, sustainability; industry is asking for availability, standardizaon, efficiency, effecveness; farming for producvity, sharing of pracces, sustainability as well. To secure a constantly increasing global supply, overcoming cyclical shortage due to negave weather condion, promong quality and providing Innovaon throughout the enre supply chain will be the challenge for the coming years. This is the reason why, in 2015, we have established the Ferrero Hazelnut Company, bringing together under one structure all the hazelnut supply chain acvies: Ferrero own Agrifarms, hazelnut outgrowing development projects, agronomic research and development, sourcing, industrial transformaon and sale of semi‐finished and finished products hazelnut‐based. As leader in this field, we feel responsible to provide innovaon to the system and to sustain the future of hazelnut; our will is to get all of you involved in this journey, creang a large, varied working group encompassing some of the best specialists in hazelnut from Universies, Scienfic and Agronomic communies and private sector. The opportunity to meet you at the first ‘Agroinnovaon week’ (Alba‐Milano, 2015 Sept 29/30 – Oct. 1) has highlighted that we all share strategic views and desire to discover new paradigms. Together we want to change the approach to innovaon, research and development in the hazelnut world, moving beyond the fragmentaon of experse around the world to a single Extended Hazelnut Innovaon Team, to push forward the boundaries of research and share informaon and knowledge. One team, one plan. This very specialized approach will focus on technical, scienfic and management aspects of hazelnut, potenally becoming a cornerstone to face its major challenges: long term ones as genec research, cerficaon, weather forecasng; medium term ones as nursery, pruning, mechanizaon. The extended working team’s goal will be to analyze and find soluons to manage issues or seek and deepen opportunies in hazelnut producon, providing breakthrough innovaon in a sector always managed with a tradional approach. We firmly believe that the hazelnut award contest was the first step of a journey that we would like to connue together with you. The second step could be the sharing of baseline and current knowledge. We will strive to encourage exchange and contact between all pares involved, fostering new opportunies to meet and discuss ideas.

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Hazelnut is the most relevant ingredients for Ferrero products. It is our key element of dis�nc�venessand uniqueness. It is what sets us apart from our compe�tors. The Langhe Area is a land of highquality hazelnuts (the Tonda Gen�le Trilobata delle Langhe) and a land of inspira�on for our founderMichele Ferrero to create global hazelnut‐based products, like Nutella, Ferrero Rocher and KinderBueno.

Nowadays, Ferrero is by far the largest hazelnut user globally, selec�ng only the best varie�es largelyfrom Turkey, Italy and Chile. The global demand for hazelnut is constantly growing, boosted byconfec�onery industry but also by new nutri�onal and healthy trends for dried fruits products.Consumers are asking for quality, safety, sustainability; industry is asking for availability,standardiza�on, efficiency, effec�veness; farming for produc�vity, sharing of prac�ces, sustainabilityas well. To secure a constantly increasing global supply, overcoming cyclical shortage due to nega�veweather condi�on, promo�ng quality and providing Innova�on throughout the en�re supply chainwill be the challenge for the coming years.

This is the reason why, in 2015, we have established the Ferrero Hazelnut Company, bringingtogether under one structure all the hazelnut supply chain ac�vi�es: Ferrero own Agrifarms, hazelnutoutgrowing development projects, agronomic research and development, sourcing, industrialtransforma�on and sale of semi‐finished and finished products hazelnut‐based. As leader in this field,we feel responsible to provide innova�on to the system and to sustain the future of hazelnut; our willis to get all of you involved in this journey, crea�ng a large, varied working group encompassing someof the best specialists in hazelnut from Universi�es, Scien�fic and Agronomic communi�es andprivate sector.

The opportunity to meet you at the first ‘Agroinnova�on week’ (Alba‐Milano, 2015 Sept 29/30 – Oct.1) has highlighted that we all share strategic views and desire to discover new paradigms. Together we want to change the approach to innova�on, research and development in the hazelnutworld, moving beyond the fragmenta�on of exper�se around the world to a single Extended HazelnutInnova�on Team, to push forward the boundaries of research and share informa�on and knowledge.One team, one plan.

This very specialized approach will focus on technical, scien�fic and management aspects of hazelnut,poten�ally becoming a cornerstone to face its major challenges: long term ones as gene�c research,cer�fica�on, weather forecas�ng; medium term ones as nursery, pruning, mechaniza�on. The extended working team’s goal will be to analyze and find solu�ons to manage issues or seek anddeepen opportuni�es in hazelnut produc�on, providing breakthrough innova�on in a sector alwaysmanaged with a tradi�onal approach.

We firmly believe that the hazelnut award contest was the first step of a journey that we would like tocon�nue together with you. The second step could be the sharing of baseline and currentknowledge. We will strive to encourage exchange and contact between all par�es involved, fosteringnew opportuni�es to meet and discuss ideas.

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Thank you for your involvement, your commitment and your energy. We send you our sweet wishes for a joyful Christmas and happy new year! 

Lucio Gomiero

The event you par�cipated in during September was very much part of Ferrero's commitment topromote and support innova�ve, effec�ve and responsible hazelnut growing. HCO sought to get theworld's leading experts on this issue together to pool their experience, to find out exactly wherethings stand in the industry and to set a common ground for launching a working group that can trulymake a difference to applied research in the hazelnut sector.

It was really a great pleasure to listen to your debates,the exchange of ideas and the visions you have for theissues discussed. We jointly watched the firstmul�disciplinary, interna�onal think tank on the futureof the hazelnut come to life and we know that, withyour scien�fic contribu�on, HCO can make majorstrides towards its goals.

‐ Increasing the yields of hazelnuts orchards andexpanding areas currently planted worldwide. ‐ Crea�ng a hazelnut germoplasm repository toallow any progress in the breeding programs. ‐ Cer�fica�ng process on the plant material:hazelnuts (and rootstocks) should be soldaccording to a clear iden�fica�on of the varietyand free on any pathogens.

‐ Providing an ecologically sustainableenvironment to produce higher yields ofhazelnuts within sound economics. ‐ Posi�oning Ferrero Hazelnut Company as themain facilitator of produc�on and to guaranteelong‐term sustainability by developing O�akeAgreements (buying contracts), Finance Trainingand Finance Support via local banks partnershipsspecific to the farmers’ needs.

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‐ Modernizing a crop remained behind the otherimportant fruit trees. ‐ Considering the usage of nanotechnology inthe hazelnuts cul�va�on to help in the detec�onand treatment of diseases, for the enhancementof nutrients absorp�on and for the delivery ofac�ve ingredients to specific sites of the plant. ‐ Introducing high density plan�ng pa�erns,possible a�er the development of dwarf cul�varsof rootstocks. ‐ Leveraging on technological supports, suchdrones and precision farming so�ware usefultools to improve the level of control on the cropand to increase the capacity of data collec�on.

‐ Underlining the climate change issue and itsmost immediate and impac�ul effects onhazelnut cul�va�on. ‐ Considering the jeopardiza�on of rainfallpa�erns that will probably influence distribu�onof the hazel tree much more than what we seetoday: future development ventures should takethis into considera�on before promo�ng thecul�va�on with farmers and investors. ‐ Focusing on new areas, especially easternEuropean countries, that should be carefullysurveyed to understand their suitability to theestablishment of a brand new hazelnut industry.A professional, standardized and open sourcerisk assessment model should be availabletogether with climate models for explora�veplan�ng.

Our Group's success has been driven by always seeking excellence, quality and innova�on, and theseare also the elements behind the crea�on of the Ferrero Hazelnut Company.

Similarly, such values are what pushed us to establish the “FERRERO HAZELNUT AWARD CONTEST”,which many of you took part in.

This award was launched last May, with total prize money of €160,000, breaking �me records to getuniversity researchers, PhD students, and non‐profit research and training ins�tutes from across theworld involved. The goal is to fund and improve research and innova�on in all aspects of the hazelnut industryacross the globe.

An external, independent scien�fic commission was established at the Sacred Heart Catholic

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University of Piacenza, under the stewardship of Professor Lorenzo Morelli.

The enthusiasm we encountered showed us we are on the right path. We received more than 45proposals from researchers in Italy, Turkey, Israel, Spain, Chile, Australia, Canada, Germany, Portugal,Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

We enjoyed the opportunity to share the best ideas with you at the award ceremony on 1 Octoberat Milan Expo 2015, an event that created yet another connec�on with the World Expo that we wereso ac�vely involved in over its six months as the Confec�onery Special�es Official Partner.

The award ceremony opened with an address by Ambassador Francesco Paolo Fulci, FerreroInterna�onal Vice President and an external overview of the hazelnut trends provided by MarcoCostaguta, Long Term Partners President. The conference was a�endend by a panel includinginterna�onal experts Thomas Molnar, Jean‐Luce Reigne, Marco Scor�chini and Ximena Ruedaintroduced by Mauro Fontana, Group Scien�fic Direc�on Soremartec Managing Director.

The proclama�on was introduced by a debate, moderated by Professor Morelli, involving the threefinalists, who each spoke personally about their research.

Before congratula�ng the winner once again, we'd like to offer our sincere thanks to everyone whotook part in the award and adopted our vision of working jointly to bring all the main players in thehazelnut sector ‐ including producers, researchers and industry bodies ‐ together, as this is the heartof the ini�a�ve.

Congratula�ons to Ins�tuto de Inves�gaciones Agropecuarias from Chile, which won the first prize of€150,000 for "Improvement hazelnut produc�on incorpora�ng novel technologies for the mostimportant world produc�on areas".

Well done to the second place project, from Perugia University in Italy, with "New cul�va�on systemfor more profitable and sustainable hazelnut growing".

We were especially impressed with the ability to rapidly create a university consor�um specificallyfor this project that was shown by the third place finisher: Ins�tut de Recerca i TecnologiasAgroalimentàries, Torre Marimon, Caldes de Montbui (Spain), the Department of Agrarian, Forestry

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and Food Sciences (DISAFA) at Turin University and the Department of Agrarian, Forestry and FoodSciences (SAF) at Palermo University. Their project was "Developing a modern hazelnut industry byinnova�ve crop technology and plant material".

The excellent quality of the entrants led to us making two special men�ons as well: ENEA Casaccia,and Tuscia University.

The award ceremony at Milan Expo on 1 October was emblema�c of the whole contest, providing anopportunity for celebra�on and more general reflec�on on the future of the sector. It was animportant step down the long road that, we are sure, we'll travel together.

A final thanks to everyone who took part!

Your par�cipa�on and posi�ve, encouraging comments following the first Agroinnova�on Week havemade us determined to encourage even more contact between all of us!

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CONTACT: If you want to receive more informa�on contact us wri�ng to HCo email address: [email protected]