<PAGE>

     As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April __, 2000
                                                           Registration No. 333-
================================================================================

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                            ------------------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            ------------------------

                                 SPIGADORO, INC.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

              Delaware                                      13-3920210
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (State or other jurisdiction                         (I.R.S. employer
 of incorporation or organization)                    identification number)

        70 East 55th Street
             24th Floor
         New York, New York                                   10022
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (Address of Principal Executive                           (Zip Code)
              Offices)

                     Spigadoro, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

                                   Jacob Agam
                               70 East 55th Street
                                   24th Floor
                            New York, New York 10022
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (212) 754-4271
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                    Copy to:
                             Robert G. Minion, Esq.
                            Steven M. Skolnick, Esq.
                              Lowenstein Sandler PC
                              65 Livingston Avenue
                           Roseland, New Jersey 07068
                                 (973) 597-2500

                            ------------------------

<PAGE>

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                       Calculation of Registration Fee
============================================================================================================
                                                      Proposed             Proposed
       Title of Securities        Amount to be    Maximum Offering    Maximum Aggregate      Amount of
         to be Registered          Registered    Price per Share (2)    Offering Price    Registration Fee
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                <C>             <C>                    <C>               <C>
Common  Stock,  par value $.01     2,500,000       $2.1875                $5,468,750        $1,444
per share
============================================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement also covers additional shares of common stock that may be
issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provision of the 1999 Stock Option Plan.

(2) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for purpose of calculating
the registration fee. The price shown is the average of the high and low price
of the common stock on April 25, 2000 as reported on The American Stock
Exchange.

                                      -2-
<PAGE>

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference

         The SEC allows us to "incorporate" into this Registration Statement
information we file with it in other documents. This means that we can disclose
important information to you by referring to other documents that contain that
information. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part
of this Registration Statement, and information we file later with the SEC will
automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference
the documents listed below, except to the extent information in those documents
is different from the information contained in this Registration Statement, and
all future documents filed with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 until we terminate the offering of these
shares:

         (a) (1)  Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                  December 31, 1999 filed on March 30, 2000;

             (2)  Our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended
                  December 31, 1999 filed on April 27, 2000;

         (b)      Our Current Report of Form 8-K as filed on April 25, 2000;

         (c)      Our Registration Statement on Form 8-A declared effective on
                  January 13, 2000, registering the common stock under the
                  Exchange Act; and

         (d)      All documents filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
                  14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
                  prospectus and prior to the termination of this offering,
                  except the Compensation Committee Report on Executive
                  Compensation and the performance graph included in the Proxy
                  Statement filed pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

         Our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and By-Laws, as amended,
provide that we shall indemnify any person to the full extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL"). Section 145 of the GCL, relating
to indemnification, is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), may be permitted to directors,
officers or controlling persons of Spigadoro pursuant to our Certificate of
Incorporation and By-Laws and the DGCL, we have been informed that in the
opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore
unenforceable.

         Our Certificate of Incorporation also limits, to the fullest extent
permitted by Delaware law, a director's liability for monetary damages for
breach of fiduciary duty, including

                                      -3-
<PAGE>

gross negligence, except liability for (i) breach of the director's duty of
loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not
in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
the law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) for any transaction from
which the director derives an improper personal benefit. Delaware law does not
eliminate a director's duty of care and this provision has no effect on the
availability of equitable remedies such as injunction or rescission based upon a
director's breach of the duty of care.

         We have obtained and maintain a policy of insurance with a face amount
of $3,000,000 (subject to certain deductible provisions and exclusions) covering
our officers and directors and indemnifying them against loss on account of
claims made against them, including, but not limited to, damages, judgments,
costs and the costs of defense of such claims, arising from breach of duty,
neglect, error, negligent misrepresentations, omission or act, or any claim
arising solely by reason of status as an officer or director.

         In addition, we entered into indemnification agreements with our
directors and officers to indemnify, and advance expenses, to the fullest extent
permitted by law. These agreements likewise do not eliminate a director's duty
of care nor effect the availability of equitable remedies based upon a
director's breach of the duty of care.

Item 8.  Exhibits

         5.1    Opinion of Lowenstein Sandler PC with respect to the legality of
                the Common Stock to be registered hereunder

         10.68  Spigadoro, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by
                reference to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                ended December 31, 1999)

         23.1   Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

         23.2   Consent of Reconta Ernst & Young S.p.A.

         23.3   Consent of Lowenstein Sandler PC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

         24     Power of Attorney (included on page 7)

Item 9.  Undertakings

         (a)    The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                (1)   To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
                      being made, a post-effective amendment to this
                      registration statement:

                                      -4-
<PAGE>

                      (i)   To include any prospectus required by Section
                            10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

                      (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                            arising after the effective date of the registration
                            statement (or the most recent post-effective
                            amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
                            aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                            information set forth in the registration statement;

                      (iii) To include any material information with respect to
                            the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                            the registration statement or any material change to
                            such information in the registration statement;

                (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
                      the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
                      amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
                      statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
                      the offering of such securities at that time shall be
                      deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and

                (3)   To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                      amendment any of the securities being registered which
                      remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                      -5-
<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement or amendment thereto to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on the
28th day of April, 2000.

                                        SPIGADORO, INC.

                                        /s/ Jacob Agam
                                        ---------------------------------
                                        By: Jacob Agam
                                            Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below under the heading "Signature" constitutes and appoints Klaus
Grissemann and Jacob Agam or either of them, his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any
or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration
Statement and any related Registration Statement filed under Rule 462(b), and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement or amendment thereto has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name                                          Title                  Date
----                                          -----                  ----

/s/ Jacob Agam
----------------------    Chairman of the Board and Chief        April 28, 2000
Jacob Agam                Executive Officer (principal
                          executive officer)

/s/ Carlo Petrini
----------------------    Co-Chairman of the Board               April 28, 2000
Carlo Petrini

<PAGE>

/s/ Klaus Grissemann
----------------------    Chief Financial Officer and            April 28, 2000
Klaus Grissemann          Director (principal financial and
                          accounting officer)

/s/ Lucio De Luca
----------------------    Chief Operating Officer and Director   April 28, 2000
Lucio De Luca

/s/ Marc S. Goldfarb
----------------------    Director                               April 28, 2000
Marc S. Goldfarb

/s/ Robert Weiss
----------------------    Director                               April 28, 2000
Robert Weiss

/s/ Erich Weber
----------------------    Director                               April 28, 2000
Erich Weber

<PAGE>

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS


Exhibit No.   Description

5.1           Opinion of Lowenstein Sandler PC with respect to the legality of
              the Common Stock to be registered hereunder.

10.68         Spigadoro, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference
              to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
              December 31, 1999)

23.1          Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

23.2          Consent of Reconta Ernst & Young S.p.A.

23.3          Consent of Lowenstein Sandler PC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

24            Power of Attorney (included on page 7)
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April __, 2000
                                                           Registration No. 333-
================================================================================

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                            ------------------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            ------------------------

                                 SPIGADORO, INC.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

              Delaware                                      13-3920210
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (State or other jurisdiction                         (I.R.S. employer
 of incorporation or organization)                    identification number)

        70 East 55th Street
             24th Floor
         New York, New York                                   10022
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (Address of Principal Executive                           (Zip Code)
              Offices)

                     Spigadoro, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

                                   Jacob Agam
                               70 East 55th Street
                                   24th Floor
                            New York, New York 10022
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (212) 754-4271
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                    Copy to:
                             Robert G. Minion, Esq.
                            Steven M. Skolnick, Esq.
                              Lowenstein Sandler PC
                              65 Livingston Avenue
                           Roseland, New Jersey 07068
                                 (973) 597-2500

                            ------------------------
Calculation of Registration Fee
============================================================================================================
                                                      Proposed             Proposed
       Title of Securities        Amount to be    Maximum Offering    Maximum Aggregate      Amount of
         to be Registered          Registered    Price per Share (2)    Offering Price    Registration Fee
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common  Stock,  par value $.01     2,500,000       $2.1875                $5,468,750        $1,444
per share
============================================================================================================
(1) In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement also covers additional shares of common stock that may be
issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provision of the 1999 Stock Option Plan.

(2) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for purpose of calculating
the registration fee. The price shown is the average of the high and low price
of the common stock on April 25, 2000 as reported on The American Stock
Exchange.

                                      -2-
PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference

         The SEC allows us to "incorporate" into this Registration Statement
information we file with it in other documents. This means that we can disclose
important information to you by referring to other documents that contain that
information. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part
of this Registration Statement, and information we file later with the SEC will
automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference
the documents listed below, except to the extent information in those documents
is different from the information contained in this Registration Statement, and
all future documents filed with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 until we terminate the offering of these
shares:

         (a) (1)  Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                  December 31, 1999 filed on March 30, 2000;

             (2)  Our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended
                  December 31, 1999 filed on April 27, 2000;

         (b)      Our Current Report of Form 8-K as filed on April 25, 2000;

         (c)      Our Registration Statement on Form 8-A declared effective on
                  January 13, 2000, registering the common stock under the
                  Exchange Act; and

         (d)      All documents filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
                  14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
                  prospectus and prior to the termination of this offering,
                  except the Compensation Committee Report on Executive
                  Compensation and the performance graph included in the Proxy
                  Statement filed pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

         Our Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and By-Laws, as amended,
provide that we shall indemnify any person to the full extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL"). Section 145 of the GCL, relating
to indemnification, is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), may be permitted to directors,
officers or controlling persons of Spigadoro pursuant to our Certificate of
Incorporation and By-Laws and the DGCL, we have been informed that in the
opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore
unenforceable.

         Our Certificate of Incorporation also limits, to the fullest extent
permitted by Delaware law, a director's liability for monetary damages for
breach of fiduciary duty, including

                                      -3-
gross negligence, except liability for (i) breach of the director's duty of
loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not
in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
the law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) for any transaction from
which the director derives an improper personal benefit. Delaware law does not
eliminate a director's duty of care and this provision has no effect on the
availability of equitable remedies such as injunction or rescission based upon a
director's breach of the duty of care.

         We have obtained and maintain a policy of insurance with a face amount
of $3,000,000 (subject to certain deductible provisions and exclusions) covering
our officers and directors and indemnifying them against loss on account of
claims made against them, including, but not limited to, damages, judgments,
costs and the costs of defense of such claims, arising from breach of duty,
neglect, error, negligent misrepresentations, omission or act, or any claim
arising solely by reason of status as an officer or director.

         In addition, we entered into indemnification agreements with our
directors and officers to indemnify, and advance expenses, to the fullest extent
permitted by law. These agreements likewise do not eliminate a director's duty
of care nor effect the availability of equitable remedies based upon a
director's breach of the duty of care.

Item 8.  Exhibits

         5.1    Opinion of Lowenstein Sandler PC with respect to the legality of
                the Common Stock to be registered hereunder

         10.68  Spigadoro, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by
                reference to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                ended December 31, 1999)

         23.1   Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

         23.2   Consent of Reconta Ernst & Young S.p.A.

         23.3   Consent of Lowenstein Sandler PC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

         24     Power of Attorney (included on page 7)

Item 9.  Undertakings

         (a)    The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                (1)   To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
                      being made, a post-effective amendment to this
                      registration statement:

                                      -4-
(i)   To include any prospectus required by Section
                            10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

                      (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                            arising after the effective date of the registration
                            statement (or the most recent post-effective
                            amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
                            aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                            information set forth in the registration statement;

                      (iii) To include any material information with respect to
                            the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                            the registration statement or any material change to
                            such information in the registration statement;

                (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
                      the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
                      amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
                      statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
                      the offering of such securities at that time shall be
                      deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and

                (3)   To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                      amendment any of the securities being registered which
                      remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                      -5-
SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement or amendment thereto to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on the
28th day of April, 2000.

                                        SPIGADORO, INC.

                                        /s/ Jacob Agam
                                        ---------------------------------
                                        By: Jacob Agam
                                            Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below under the heading "Signature" constitutes and appoints Klaus
Grissemann and Jacob Agam or either of them, his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any
or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration
Statement and any related Registration Statement filed under Rule 462(b), and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement or amendment thereto has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name                                          Title                  Date
----                                          -----                  ----

/s/ Jacob Agam
----------------------    Chairman of the Board and Chief        April 28, 2000
Jacob Agam                Executive Officer (principal
                          executive officer)

/s/ Carlo Petrini
----------------------    Co-Chairman of the Board               April 28, 2000
Carlo Petrini
/s/ Klaus Grissemann
----------------------    Chief Financial Officer and            April 28, 2000
Klaus Grissemann          Director (principal financial and
                          accounting officer)

/s/ Lucio De Luca
----------------------    Chief Operating Officer and Director   April 28, 2000
Lucio De Luca

/s/ Marc S. Goldfarb
----------------------    Director                               April 28, 2000
Marc S. Goldfarb

/s/ Robert Weiss
----------------------    Director                               April 28, 2000
Robert Weiss

/s/ Erich Weber
----------------------    Director                               April 28, 2000
Erich Weber
INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit No.   Description

5.1           Opinion of Lowenstein Sandler PC with respect to the legality of
              the Common Stock to be registered hereunder.

10.68         Spigadoro, Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference
              to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
              December 31, 1999)

23.1          Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

23.2          Consent of Reconta Ernst & Young S.p.A.

23.3          Consent of Lowenstein Sandler PC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

24            Power of Attorney (included on page 7)