From ice cream machines to Gelato University

Founded in 1946, Carpigiani soon established itself as a market leader in the sector of artisanal ice cream machines. With the spread of the culture of "Italian ice cream" in the world, in the 60s and 70s, it started a strong expansion also at an international level.

Today Carpigiani is a large international company with 8 branches around the world, more than 200 distributors and over 500 service centers.

The group also offers training for ice cream makers: in 2003 Carpigiani Gelato University was born, which trains almost 7,000 people every year in ice cream and pastry courses.

Finally, a museum entirely dedicated to ice cream could not be missing: inaugurated in 2012, Carpigiani Gelato Museum, in addition to the usual visits to learn about the history of ice cream, also offers workshops, events, tastings and educational workshops for schools.



#gelato 360°

Over the past ten years we've been dealing with Carpigiani's online presence at a 360° perspective.

Among the others, we developed:


  • over 10 web projects, including temporary sites and landing pages, but also the main institutional websites, such as those of Gelato University and Museo del Gelato;

  • 9 international campaigns on search engines for Gelato University: they have generated over time about 5,000 prospects, a thousand direct information requests and 12% of total orders from the site, for a turnover of € 275,000;

  • 700 mass mailing operations, including newsletters, DEMs, online surveys.


Did we say gelato? Let's freshen up our ideas with a quick round up of the projects we developed for Carpigiani Group:


gelatouniversity.com - become a gelatiere in four weeks! The site displays full educational offer from Carpigiani University of Gelato, in Italy and all around the world. With Gelato University you can start a new job, get a specialization, change your life and open an ice cream shop on the other side of the world.

Project
gelatouniversity.com portal and online courses selling platform
back-office for managing students, courses, orders, statistics and surveys

Activities
web-design
interfaces
development

Status
online



Wherever they are on the globe, gelatouniversity.com is the perfect place for gelato makers to find the training course that's right for them: the offer is wide and varoius and includes courses in Italy, at Anzola (Bologna) headquarters, courses at dealerships in various countries all around the world, as well as online courses and webinars.

The school celebrated its first 15 years in 2018: the website we developed for gelato University celebrated its tenth birthday, too. 

Over the years the website has undergone various restylings: it now offers its content in 13 languages, with specific landing pages for worldwide campuses. Approximately 160,000 visitors pass through it every year and they can choose and purchase the courses they are interested in directly from the site.

About one thousand of those who purchased, have done it directly from their smartphone, as the website is responsive and really easy to use. So, if you are looking for inspiration, take a look at the success stories to learn about the experience of those who have decided to take the path of artisan gelato.

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gelatomuseum.com -  the only museum dedicated to the history of gelato. Over 1.000 square metres full immersion in the world of gelato and its evolution along the centuries. Book your gelato experience! 

Project
gelatomuseum.com website with booking
back-office

Activities
web-design
interfaces
development

Status
online



Launched in September 2012, Carpigiani Gelato Museum tells us about the history, culture and tecnology of artisan gelato from the origins to nowadays. It boasts a collection of over 10.000 photographs, historical documents, vintage tools and accessories, unpublished video-interviews and 20 original gelato machines.

Thanks to the variety of events on the calendar, the Museum is able to offer its visitors a unique experience, tailored to all ages and needs: workshops for schools and families, tastings for adults and children, masterclasses of gelato with Carpigiani master gelato makers, birthday parties at the Museum.

The Gelato Museum website offers the complete calendar of events, with the possibility of booking the one of interest directly online: the back-end allows Museum staff to independently manage the calendar, events and reservations.
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carpigiani.com - Carpigiani institutional website, the online ambassador of the Group's brand identity, whose creation was entrusted to Antherica following that of the Gelato University website. The longevity of the project, online from 2009 to 2019, has gone hand in hand with the numerous revisions: the site has grown over time, enriching itself with new sections, languages, functionalities and becoming a global portal.


Project
 carpigiani.com
Activities
web-design
interfaces
development

Status

online from 2009 to 2019



The carpigiani.com global portal, intended for users from all countries in 19 languages, has represented Carpigiani's online brand identity in the world for ten years.

The site, equipped with a complex architecture, but at the same time easy to navigate, offered targeted pages with specific content for each language, in addition to shared information on the company, mission and vision.

Commercial sections offered a complete overview of the nearly 2,000 ice cream making and pastry making machines available, each with its own detailed technical sheet. Finally, the global map of dealers made it possible to select and contact the branch of interest by geographic area.





service.carpigiani.com - the site dedicated to assistance services for Carpigiani machines, provided both remotely and through the network of Carpigiani dealers around the world.

Project
carpigiani.service.com website


Activities
web-design
interfaces
development

Status
online



What should I do if the Ready 14 20 batch freezer has a problem? Who do I contact for assistance with my Pastrochef RTL machine? The Carpigiani Services portal offers all the information necessary for technical support to anyone who owns a Carpigiani machine. Assistance is provided both remotely, through Teorema e-maintenance, and through the capillary network of authorized centers. From the site it is possible to find the closest center among the 480 existing ones. The site is mainly aimed at technicians, installers and dealers, who, by logging in, can find online the documentation of each machine, available in 8 languages. The site itself is in 8 languages, plus Italian, in order to guarantee optimal access to information from any corner of the planet. Su ciascuna macchina Carpigiani è presente un QR code: scansionandolo, si approda direttamente alla scheda della macchina sul sito Services. On each Carpigiani machine there is a QR code: by scanning it, you can go directly to the machine card on the Services website. The portal also provides the installation completion and signature service: a technician in Beijing can, for example, complete the installation of a machine, then sign it via the touch of any mobile device, even a smartphone, and save this data. in its private area.

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challenge.carpigiani.com - where gelato makers from all over the world compete: the 36 selected flavours of gelato will land at the final of the Gelato Festival World Masters scheduled for 2021.

Project
challenge.carpigiani.com website
Activities
web-design
interfaces
development
Status
online



Gelato Festival is a traveling competition that has conquered gelato makers from all over the world. It takes place at Carpigiani dealers and distributors in various areas of the world and each country has its own regulations.

From the Gelato Festival website, published in five languages, gelato makers can select the geographic area of interest to participate in the challenge, find out which dealer is closest and know the dates of the event, then register, after viewing the rules, with their own ice cream flavour.

So ... let the challenge begin!

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Become a gelatiere! Worldwide campaigns

For Carpigiani Gelato University, visibility at a global level is a key factor for the success of sales: gelatouniversity.com site benefits from excellent natural indexing and good positioning on search engines, also thanks to the notoriety of the Carpigiani brand. Paid advertising campaigns contribute to visibility with selected targets for specific search keywords, stimulating the purchase of courses with appropriate calls-to-action.

Carpigiani Gelato University provides language courses both at the headquarters in Anzola nell'Emilia and at 10 international locations. Every year students from all over the world come to Bologna to learn the art of gelato: Carpigiani Gelato University speaks English, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and German, to name just some of the languages in which knowledge about the art of Italian gelatois transmitted.

Many of these students of all ages buy their course directly online, on the gelatouniversity.com website, and 12% of them arrive through Google Ads campaigns that we have been running for some years on behalf of the School. International campaigns in five languages have generated to date about 5,000 prospects and direct orders from the site, for a turnover of € 275,000.

From dream to purchase the step is short

My gelato course? I buy it online!

Where? On Carpigiani Gelato University portal which is many things together, including a complete e-commerce for the purchase of courses of various types.

We are strongly bonded to this project, the first we developed on behalf of Carpigiani Group: the heart of the portal is certainly the educational offer with multilingual courses, preparatory online courses with handouts and videos, itinerant and classroom courses in the Carpigiani offices around the world, customized courses for those with special needs.

Those who cultivate the dream of opening a gelato shop in Italy or abroad can refer to it to find every level of training, from basic courses to thematic and highly specialized ones. There are many second generation emigrants, children of Italians residing abroad, who decide to stop in Anzola to learn and export the Italian art of gelato to the country in which they live.

All courses can be booked and purchased online also by credit card. Language, location and dates are defined during the purchase process. At the disposal of each navigator there is a reserved area in which it is possible to view the list of purchased courses and all payments and where the multimedia documentation of the courses attended is made available.

The front-end side is completed by an articulated back-end structure, through which the staff of the School manages everything related to the courses: the educational offer published online, prices, promotions and all the information contained on the site, but also the orders, complete personal data of each student, the archive of the courses they attended, their payment status, satisfaction surveys. The management system also provides statistical data on sales, on attendance to courses and manages additional data, such as those relating to the gelato market in the various countries of the world or the database of ice cream parlours, which can be used for multi-channel marketing operations.

The management of contents in different languages

#hablo español
#I speak english
#ich spreche deutsch

Carpigiani Group is a large international reality: online projects are aimed at a global audience and they are therefore all multilingual. Content management is carried out independently by the Client thanks to a back-end system that allows them to easily create, publish and de-publish documents in all the languages ​​provided.

All the projects managed on behalf of Carpigiani are developed on the proprietary platform AnthericaSuite: the back-end management is carried out through a single interface on which numerous users operate, each with their own access and action prerogatives. A structured workflow allows an accurate division of tasks and at the same time allows to unify all operations, facilitating the tasks of those who work on multiple projects.  - anthericacms, content management system.
Thanks to shared databases, the platform allows you to deliver content on multiple channels through a single operation, with significant savings in time and resources. The same information, such as news, can for example be distributed in real time on a web page and a social profile or an app and a newsletter.
Editors in the four corners of the world can work simultaneously on the content management system, publishing information in 13 different languages, including Russian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

Newsletters

Integrated to web projects, the newsletter platform allows the customer to convey updates, promotions, manage e-mail marketing operations and do branding.

The newsletter management platform, accessible in the cloud, allows you to prepare messages in various ways: using a drag & drop editor, from a web page, using a WYSIWYG text editor, directly in HTML - anthericamail, e-mail marketing software.

For Carpigiani we have activated five newsletter accounts, each of them multi-user, with multiple graphic layouts and customized features. Almost 700 newsletters have been sent to date.

Coming soon

Carpigiani Group is growing: Carpigiani Gelato University is among the most active sectors of this growth, it is no coincidence that we are developing a new application for the School intended to support the organizational needs of the staff in facing the increasingly large number of students from all over the world that chooses to train at the Anzola headquarters.

The new release of the back-office will soon be available, including a classroom booking system that will allow the School staff to automatically manage, without errors or overlaps, the distribution of courses in the various available classrooms, always keeping an eye on the overall situation of the spaces intended for training.

Thanks to the responsive design, the application will be optimized for any device, ensuring quick and effective use even from smartphones and tablets.