The data was revealed following Toto Caputo's visit to the opening of the 100th store of the chain: between January and July, they recorded 51% more net sales and 13% more tickets than in 2025
Although the executive acknowledged that he listens to colleagues and businessmen from different sectors who are still “suffering from consumption that has not taken off as expected”, the economic reactivation already offers concrete financial tools for the corporate sector.
In this regard, Luis Caputo highlighted the new and powerful tool of local banks to provide loans in dollars, to which Christian Otero reflected with a clear message of support for the structural paradigm shift: “We must not forget where we came from”.
At the more specific level of his organization, the trajectory and expansion plans of this national brand reflect the enormous confidence generated by the current business climate.
This Tuesday, the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, led this series of official activities with a visit of strong symbolic and economic content. The head of the Ministry of Finance was accompanied on this day by Pilar Ramírez, president of the LLA bloc in the Buenos Aires Legislature, in a clear gesture of support for the national business community that bets on genuine development without depending on state control.
The official activity was particularly focused in the exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood of Las Cañitas, where the historic opening of the 100th location of the prestigious Argentine ice cream chain Lucciano's was celebrated.
Luis Caputo at Lucciano's
There, during a meeting that lasted 40 minutes, Minister Luis Caputo —who tasted a traditional dulce de leche ice cream— spoke firsthand with Christian Otero, co-founder and CEO of the company.
During the meeting, the extraordinary profitability and consumption indicators of the brand were presented, definitively burying the opposition's recession narratives.
The figures presented by the company's management to the minister are simply staggering and reflect an unprecedented consumption boom for the national private sector.
Between January and July of this year, Lucciano's recorded a remarkable 13% growth in tickets and a brutal increase of 51% in net sales after inflation compared to the same period in 2025.
When incorporating the largest number of outlets currently operated by the company into the comparison, the impact of the reactivation is even more evident: the company experienced a phenomenal increase of 52% in tickets and an astronomical 102% in sales.
Furthermore, the data from the last quarter consolidates this extremely positive trend with a rise of 6.45% in tickets and 42% in sales.
Faced with this undeniable reality of commercial success, Christian Otero was emphatic before the microphones of Infobae: “Our numbers grow year after year. Consumption has not fallen in our case, we are not seeing that”.
President Javier Milei at Lucciano's
In the same way, the businessman pragmatically stated regarding the management of the national economic portfolio: “With these numbers, I cannot make a complaint”.
Founded in the city of Mar del Plata in 2011, when Daniel Otero and Christian Otero opened their first store with an initial investment of USD 300,000, the company has become a symbol of national pride thanks to its famous popsicles —or ice pops— and a model that prioritizes imported raw materials of the highest quality, along with facilities equipped with showcases brought from Europe.
Its excellence was recognized in 2019, when it won the award for Best Artisan Ice Cream in the City of Buenos Aires in a competition organized by the local government.
Lucciano's Factory
Today, the company has 102 locations in Argentina and plans to end the year 2026 with a total of 128 branches, which represents the opening of 26 new locations in the remaining months. Additionally, Lucciano's is projected as a global export powerhouse from sovereign soil.
The company has already made an investment of approximately USD 1 million at the beginning of the year for the manufacturing and expansion of its alfajores line.
This strong productive outlay complements its international presence in highly competitive markets such as Uruguay, Chile, United States, Italy, Spain, and Brazil, while advancing in firm negotiations to expand into Mexico and Portugal, along with its future entry into the Middle East under the franchise format.
The consolidation of the economic and political direction of the national government continues to advance steadily in the country's main district. As part of the deployment of the territorial tours that La Libertad Avanza (LLA) launched in the City of Buenos Aires ahead of the electoral cycle of 2027, prominent cabinet officials have begun to visit the strongholds of the private sector to reaffirm the success of the deregulation and stabilization program.
This explicit support for the model of freedom is not an isolated event within the brand: the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, had already visited in January of this year the production plant of the company in the General Savio Industrial Park in Mar del Plata, accompanied by his sister and being received by the co-founders, in a clear demonstration that the Government unconditionally supports the heroes of private development who drive the rebirth of the Homeland.
