Founded in 1900, this was one of the first social cooperative dairies in the Po Valley, set up by farmers tired of milk prices imposed by the industry. Its facilities cover 60,000 square metres and it collects milk from Friesian...

An agricultural cooperative found in Val Taleggio, established by an initiative of the Valle Brembana mountain community and Taleggio and Vedeseta municipal authorities. Chaired by Flaminio Locatelli, the cooperative today is a point of reference for local farmers and a...

For four generations traditional Bergamo cheeses have been made and aged here. The sheer quality of the various dairy products is due to the manual processing of milk brought only from selected local farms, combined with the expertise of the...

The main product is Bitto cheese whose unique properties are linked to its setting. It is a Slow Food Presidium and the only cheese to undergo over ten years of ageing. The merit goes to the Valli del Bitto producers'...

The dairy is a farming cooperative set up over 50 years ago, collecting milk from Friesian and Bianca Modenese cattle, contributed by its members, all located in the area. The milk is processed raw and quickly to avoid altering the...

In 1920 Zefferino Monini began producing extra virgin olive oil in the Spoleto area, with its many olive-covered hillsides yielding oil with an intense but balanced flavour. Back then most Italians used only olive oil, especially in the city, and...

An icon of Made-in-Italy espresso, Segafredo Zanetti was established in the early 1970s and thanks to expansion became the world's first private coffee sector group. It is the fifth largest producer, with three million sacks of raw coffee sold every...

The business began with Peter Ferdinand Senfter who started artisan speck production in a San Candido butcher, for local consumption in Val Pusteria, using his own animals. In the early 20th century the Senfter butcher business became the official supplier...

In Cremona, Enea Sperlari opened a shop for artisanal production and sale of typical traditional local specialities: nougat and fruit relish. That was in 1836 and the products were a huge success, so by the end of the century the...

Giuseppe Alberti, father of Strega liqueur, opened a café in the main square of Benevento, which would become the meeting place for liberal thinkers of the period. He began producing Strega in 1860, and it was named for the legend...