Cirio (company)

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Cirio
legal form Corporation
founding 1856
Seat San Lazzaro di Savena , Bologna , Italy
ItalyItaly 
Branch food industry
Website www.cirio1856.de

Cirio is an Italian company specializing in canned food (especially in the tomato sector). It belongs to the Conserve Italia group based in San Lazzaro di Savena in Emilia-Romagna . The Cirio brand products are sold in around 90 countries.

history

Francesco Cirio , company founder

The beginnings of the company go back to Francesco Cirio , who started preserving peas in Turin in 1856 . This is considered the first industrial canning factory in Italy. As a result, Francesco Cirio expanded canned food production, expanded throughout Italy and established sales channels in various European countries. In 1867, Cirio was already exporting its canned tomatoes all over the world, to cities like Liverpool and Sydney . After Francesco Cirio's death, the “Società generale delle conserve alimentari Cirio” (in German: “General Society for Canned Foods Cirio” ) was founded with its seat in San Giovanni a Teduccio ( Naples ).

The company was subsequently continued by Pietro Signorini , a partner of Francesco Cirio. Until 1970, Cirio was in the hands of the Signorini family.

The company then passed to the Italian state-owned food company Società Meridionale di Elettricità . There Cirio was merged with the food brands Bertolli and De Rica to form the Finanziaria CBD (Cirio-Bertolli-De Rica). In 1993 the Finanziaria CBD was privatized . The Sagrit holding company took over the Cirio-Bertolli-De Rica division in 1994. The Roman entrepreneur Sergio Cragnotti, a shareholder in Sagrit , took over the entire shares in a short time and on June 1, 1994 became the exclusive owner of Sagrit and thus also of CBD. The Bertolli brand was later sold to Unilever .

The food company Cirio Del Monte emerged from the merger with the South African Del Monte Royal . In 2001 the canning group Cirio Del Monte achieved an annual turnover of 1.23 billion euros. In the early 2000s, however, the company ran into financial difficulties under Cragnotti's leadership and eventually became insolvent.

The Cirio De Rica division was sold to Conserve Italia in 2004 for 168 million euros . At that time, Cirio De Rica had consolidated annual sales of 140 million euros.

Trivia

Cirio sponsored the football club SSC Napoli in the 1982/83 and 1984/85 seasons and Lazio Rome from 1996 to 2000 .

literature

  • Peter Signorini: Come natura crea. Cirio, una storia italiana . Mondadori, Milan 2016, ISBN 978-88-918-1184-4 (Italian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michaela Schellner: Bilingual labels and tomato paste in a glass. In: CASH - the trade magazine. April 25, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Jean-Baptiste Malet: The tomato empire: a favorite product explains global capitalism . Bastei Entertainment , Cologne 2018, ISBN 3-8479-0642-9 ( google.de [accessed on June 16, 2019] French: L 'empire de l'or rouge . Translated by Norma Cassau).
  3. ↑ Luigi Agnello: CIRIO, Francesco. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . Volume 25, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1981 (Italian).
  4. ^ Andrea Chiara Grillo: Cirio: l'azienda piemontese che deve la sua fortuna a Napoli. In: Vesuvio Live. January 30, 2017, accessed June 20, 2019 (Italian).
  5. ↑ a b company history. In: cirio1856.de. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c Cosi Cragnotti mise le mani su Cirio-Bertolli-De Rica. In: Il Sole 24 ORE.com. November 8, 2002, archived from the original on January 21, 2019 ; Retrieved June 21, 2019 (Italian).
  7. ^ Emanuela Scarpellini: Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present . Palgrave Macmillan US , New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-56962-2 , pp. 186 (English, google.de [accessed June 21, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Cirio Del Monte with great plans. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 22, 2002, accessed June 21, 2019 .
  9. ^ Cirio bankruptcy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 9, 2002, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Marcello Berni: Sergio Cragnotti: The last game of gambler. In: Handelsblatt . December 5, 2002, accessed June 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Cragnotti gives up: Lazio Rome is sold. In: Handelsblatt. November 14, 2002, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  12. ^ Lazio Rome: The decline of the great bluffer. In: manager magazin. January 8, 2003, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  13. ^ A b Sale of Cirio De Rica to Conserve Italia. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 4, 2004, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ La Cirio ceduta a Conserve Italia. In: La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. September 29, 2004, accessed June 20, 2019 (Italian).