During the first half of the 1950s, the entrepreneur Ernesto Piletti launched Pizza Catarì, named after the excellent pizza baked by Caterina, a young female employee of his from Naples. Disseminating the culture of good homemade pizza, quick and easy to make even for the least expert, Pizza Catarì soon became a staple in Italian pantries, also in its snack format through Pizzette Catarì, launched in the 1980s by the legendary advertisement with Giorgio Bracardi.

The history of Cannamela spices began in the 1960s, in the Bologna neighbourhood called Lame, when the eponymous family decided to start trading in selected spices chosen from among the best crops worldwide. Today, as it did then, Cannamela purchased raw materials directly at the source, and has proved to be the ideal mixture of innovation and tradition, as demonstrated by the lines Cannamela Le Regionali Bio and – more recently – Cannamela Fairtrade bringing onto shop shelves organic spices from Fair Trade enterprises.

Polenta Valsugana was created in the 1920s by an ingenious Italian immigrant in Chicago: he was so homesick that he came up with a time-saving method to make polenta in just a few minutes, thanks to an exclusive steam pre-cooking process. Ever since the 1950s, Polenta Valsugana has been synonymous with “easy, attractive, appetising and healthy”. Practical and versatile, available in several versions, is the perfect base to experiment with quick recipes that are always different, where evergreen traditional dishes meet a never-ending search for something new.

“Eating well and feeling fit”: this is the claim that, since 1959, Cuore – a ground-breaking functional diet brand – has been using to accompany Italians in the search for a healthy lifestyle, also at the table.
An iconic image is the unforgettable jumping of the fence, symbolising the attention that Cuore has always paid to eating healthily and striving for well-being, confirmed by scientific studies and by all Cuore Nutrition Academy projects.
Today Cuore is an umbrella brand covering functional and tasty products that encourage taking care of yourself: starting with Olio Cuore, rich in the Omega 6 fats naturally contained in the product that help keep cholesterol levels in check at suitably low levels, then Vegetable Mayonnaise and iodised Low-sodium Salt. Mention should also be made of our innovative Olio Cuore and legume flour-based products: Sfoglie Cuore, crunchy bread chips rich in fibre and protein sources.

In 1908 Luigi Amedeo Bonomelli opened his first herbal pharmacy in Milan; his passion and competence, in 1926, resulted in the famous Camomilla Bonomelli. Constantly searching for the best raw materials, in 1939 in Foggia he founded the first Italian experimental centre for the study, cultivation and drying of chamomile leaves. Bonomelli has developed a wide-ranging and multifaceted array of products; in addition to chamomile, it also infusions, herb teas and plant based supplements to serve as point of reference in the functional beverage and natural wellbeing sector.

Thé Infré is a decaffeinated tea of outstanding quality, sold throughout Italy since the 1960s. Its exclusive decaffeination process preserving tea leaf aroma and properties was developed in 1946, in Switzerland, by the pharmacist Theodor Groethe. Universally popular thanks to the unforgettable claim “it is good here; it is good here” (pointing at one’s mouth and heart respectively), it now comes in a wide product variety.