Barilla started life in 1877, in a small pasta and bread shop in Parma, and has become one of the largest food producers in Italy, the world’s leading pasta producer, the European market leader in the ready sauces sector, the largest manufacturer of oven products in Italy, and of crispbreads in Scandinavia.

The Company has been run by the same family for over 130 years, and is now in its fourth generation, represented by the brothers Guido, Luca and Poalo, and their sister Emanuela.

Barilla’s has always focused on healthy eating, through wheat-based, everyday products that are both tasty and nutritionally balanced, and has achieved an international reputation thanks to the quality of its products – the result of significant investment in research, innovation and technologies – and continuous marketing campaigns.

Barilla owns 26 production facilities (14 in Italy and 12 overseas), including 9 mills, which are managed directly and produce the vast majority of the raw materials used to create its pasta and oven products.

The company exports to over one hundred countries. Every year its factories manufacture over 1,400,000 tonnes of food products that are consumed all over the world, under the following brands: Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Pavesi, Academia Barilla, Wasa, Misko (Greece), Filiz (Turkey), Yemina and Vesta (Mexico) In addition to the product brands, the Barilla group also includes the Number 1 brand, a subsidiary company specialising in logistics services, and First, which deals with retail sales services.

Thanks to a respect for the traditional but very real principles and values expressed in Our Commitment, the management of human resources as a fundamental asset, and state of the art production systems, Barilla has become one of the most highly reputed food producers in the world and an expression of Italian "know how".

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