Barilla, originally established in 1877 as a bread and pasta shop in Parma, is today one of the top Italian food groups: a leader in the pasta business worldwide, in the pasta sauces business in continental Europe, in the bakery products business in Italy and in the crispbread business in Scandinavia.
The Group employs more than 15,000 people and in 2009 had net sales of more than euro 4,1 billion.
The Company has been managed for over 130 years by one family’s entrepreneurial experience and is now run by the fourth generation siblings: Guido, Luca, Paolo and Emanuela Barilla. Always oriented toward proper diet through exceptionally flavored and nutritionally balanced products intended for daily use, Barilla became popular worldwide due to its attention to the quality of its products, the result of significant investments in research, innovation and technology, as well as communication.
Barilla owns 43 production sites (13 in Italy and 30 outside Italy), of which 9 are directly managed mills that provide most of the raw materials for the production of its pasta and bakery products.
Barilla exports to more than 100 countries. Every year about 2,500,000 tons of food products, with the brands Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Voiello, Pavesi, Wasa, Harry’s (France and Russia), Lieken Urkorn and Golden Toast (Germany), Alixir, Academia Barilla, Misko (Greece), Filiz (Turkey), Yemina and Vesta (Mexico), are featured on dining tables the world over. The Number1 brand, a Group company engaged in logistics activities, stands alongside the product brands.
By respecting its own traditional principles and values, which still feel current today, by considering employees a fundamental asset and by developing leading-edge production systems, Barilla has become one of the world’s most esteemed food companies, and one that is recognized worldwide as a symbol of Italian know-how.