De Cecco

The F.lli De Cecco di Filippo Fara San Martino SpA ( Market presence De Cecco ) is an international Italian food manufacturers. Based in Fara San Martino in Abruzzo company produces and sells under the brand De Cecco mainly pasta. In addition, other specialties of Italian cuisine as Pelati, tomato sauces, olive oil, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, polenta and rice, rice and flour products are offered. The family business founded in 1886, generated 2006 sales of 246 million euros, of which just over one third of the export.

History

The company's roots go back to the mid-19th century by Don Nicola De Cecco in Fara San Martino -powered mill. The De Cecco family put there for generations flour ago. With the handover of the mill to his son Filippo pasta production was recorded in 1886. Don Filippo De Cecco took this a low-temperature drying system in operation, thanks to the pasta production was no longer dependent on weather conditions. 1908 Abruzzer peasant girl with sheaves of wheat became the company logo. You still dominates the de Cecco packs.

After the end of World War II destroyed by German bombing pasta factory was rebuilt and resumed production. The previously begun international orientation has been strengthened and taken in the 1950s a second factory in Pescara in operation. 1980 in Fara San Martino, a new plant was inaugurated with double production capacity.

From the mid- 1980s, the company began to diversify its product offerings. First, with the founding of the Società Olearia for the production of olive oil, then with the processing of tomatoes to Pomodori pelati and sauces as well as with the production of other products of traditional Italian cuisine. In the 1990s, the new mill in Fara San Martino was built and thus the processing capacity increased significantly. 1997 was another plant in Ortona.

The owner's family De Cecco was planning to take the company to the stock exchange, in late February 2009, but decided to cancel the IPO due to poor stock market conditions.