Poiatti

Poiatti S.p.A.

Company type	Private (family-owned)
Industry	Food processing
Founded	1946;79 years ago (1946)
Founder	Domenico Poiatti
Headquarters	Mazara del Vallo , Sicily, Italy
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Pasta
Revenue	€ 60 millions (2019) [1]
Website	www.poiatti.it

Poiatti S.p.A. is an Italian pasta manufacturing company based in Sicily.

History

In 1940, Domenico Poiatti (born 1921) left his native Pian D'Artogne, Lombardy, for Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, to serve in the military. After getting married, he briefly returned with his family to his native town, where he worked in his uncle's old water-fed mill grinding corn and dried chestnuts. Poiatti went back to Mazara in 1946, opening a grocery store and buying a small artisan pasta factory that would become the current company. ^[2]

Production

Poiatti produces 100 forms of pasta with Sicilian wheat, including durum wheat semolina, egg pasta, bronze-extruded pasta and couscous. ^[3] Poiatti S.p.A. has a production plant in Mazara del Vallo, with more than 60 employees. ^[2]

Distribution

In Italy, the Poiatti pasta is marketed and distributed directly by the company. In the foreign market (Europe, United States, Canada, Australia and Brazil) the distribution is managed by local partners. ^[4]

References

1. Viglietti, Chiara (26 December 2019). "Il signore della pasta: 'Investire qui un errore, devo lasciare Mondovì e vendoa l'ex Monte Regale, un tempo Gazzola'". La Stampa (in Italian).
2. "Poiatti, la pasta 'camuno-siciliana'". Giornale di Brescia (in Italian). 30 July 2015.
3. "Ma Poiatti è soprattuto una storia". poiatti.it (in Italian).
4. "Un'industria all'avanguardia". Tiscali (in Italian). 11 March 2019.