Francesco Cirio

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Francesco Cirio

Francesco Cirio (born December 25, 1836 in Nizza Monferrato , Piedmont , †  January 9, 1900 in Rome ) was an Italian entrepreneur who founded the canning company Cirio in 1856 .

Life

Francesco Cirio was born in Nizza Monferrato as the son of the grocer and former grain dealer Giuseppe Cirio and his wife Luigia Berta. At the beginning of 1850, Francesco Cirio settled in Turin . From 1855 to 1856 he operated as an exporter between Spoleto and Paris . When he returned to Turin at the end of 1856, he used his small savings to set up a room for preserving peas . This is considered one of the early attempts at food preservation in Italy and is considered the first industrial canning factory in Italy. The successes achieved prompted Cirio to expand its production in more suitable premises and to open a shop to sell its canned goods as well as fresh fruit and vegetables. In 1867 he won an award at the World Exhibition in Paris for a process he had invented for salting meat. In the following years he expanded his canned food production and established sales channels in various European countries. He later ran restaurants in several major European cities , such as Brussels and Berlin .

Trivia

Monument to Cirios in Piazza della Repubblica in Turin

In Cirio's birthplace, Nizza Monferrato, a museum has been set up about himself . In Turin there is a monument in his honor in the Piazza della Repubblica .

literature

  • Luigi Agnello:  Cirio, Francesco. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 25:  Chinzer – Cirni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1981.
  • Giuseppe Ubezzi: Francesco Cirio. note biografiche . Turin 1905 (reprint Nizza Monferrato 2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ Kay Walter, Rüdiger Liedtke: 111 places in Brussels that you have to see . Emons Verlag , Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0128-1 ( google.de [accessed on June 16, 2019]).
  3. ^ Museo Cirio, storia di un imprenditore - GRP Televisione - YouTube. In: YouTube . GRPtelevision, July 6, 2012, accessed June 16, 2019 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Giulia Blandino: 1856: con Francesco Cirio a Torino nascono le conserve alimentari. In: laboratoriovalsusa.it. Retrieved June 2, 2019 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Cirio, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian entrepreneur and founder of the canning company Cirio
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice Monferrato , Piedmont
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1900
Place of death Rome