Carapelli
Sign in to saveCarapelli (Carapelli Firenze SpA) is an Italian food company, since 2005 owned by Spanish multinational Deoleo, S.A, based in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, which is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Florence, most famous for its extra virgin olive oil. The company was started as a home business in 1893 by Cesira and Costantino Carapelli. Other members of the Carapelli family joined the business and the company rapidly grew in size and popularity, to become the most modernised food company in Italy by the 1940s. Today, Carapelli Firenze SpA is the leading Italian extra virgin olive oil company
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- Italy
- Headquarters
- Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
- Owned by
- Deoleo
- Parent organization
- Deoleo
- Industry
- food
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Official website
- www.carapelli.it
Show 3 more facts
- inception
- 1893-01-01
- location of formation
- Montevarchi
- product or material produced
- vegetable oil
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- 1893: The Beginning
- 1939-40: Post War
- 1995: Tavernelle
- 2001: Instituto Nutrizionale Carapelli
- 2005: Spanish multinational Deoleo
- Controversy
- References
- External links
Carapelli (Carapelli Firenze SpA) is an Italian food company, since 2005 owned by Spanish multinational Deoleo, S.A, based in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, which is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Florence, most famous for its extra virgin olive oil. The company was started as a home business in 1893 by Cesira and Costantino Carapelli. Other members of the Carapelli family joined the business and the company rapidly grew in size and popularity, to become the most modernised food company in Italy by the 1940s. Today, Carapelli Firenze SpA is the leading Italian extra virgin olive oil company (with brand such as Carapelli, Sasso, Maya) where 30% of its production is exported to Europe and the Americas.
==History== ===1893: The Beginning=== On 23 September 1893, the day of their wedding, Cesira & Constantino Carapelli founded the family business with her dowry. With 300 lire the couple bought a warehouse in Montevarchi to trade in grain, oil and other agricultural produce
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