Italy's oldest canned maker and one of the core brands under Conserve Italia. CIRIO was the first brand to start storing tomatoes in tin boxes in 1856, which opened its path to canned food, which is also due to the Italian people's love for their own vegetables.
Francesco Cirio – Great idea, great passion. Francesco Cilio was born on December 25, 1836 in Niza Monferrato, Italy. His father was a humble grain merchant, and his contacts in this world had a profound impact on young Francisco. With amazing entrepreneurial abilities, Francisco has worked at the fruit and vegetable market in Turin for 14 years. The success concept of Italian fresh agricultural products. At that time, demand for fresh Italian products in London and Paris markets continued to increase, but was not met. The young Cirio observed the trend and the opportunities it brought, so he set up a company where it operates fruit and vegetable transactions and trades in the region and cities in the UK. In just a few months, he became Italy's most important agricultural exporter. Success around the world – thanks to protection. In 1856, at the age of 20, Francesco Cirio was the first person in the world to be believed to have developed the technology of approximation petrochemicals (invented by Frenchman Nicholas Apoti). Save the method overcomes the problem of perishable exporting fruits and vegetables by expanding its "shelf life", giving Cirio the ability to develop its global business, opening the first Cirio factory in Turin, and after his great success with Pea, he Expand the scope to include a variety of other foods, launching a thriving business that has the ability to export to all over the world. In 1867, Francesco Cirio presented his first works at the Paris Fair and won a prestigious award. After that, he began exporting from Liverpool to Sidney around the world. Entrepreneurs, businessmen, farmers. After the unification of Italy, Francesco opened a production plant in southern Italy, where he personally supervised the restoration of large areas of abandoned agricultural land prepared for the planting of fresh fruit and vegetable markets and his own factories. Pietro Signorini is a partner in the company, who took over the company's future from the founders and built the legacy of Francesco. Thanks to him, the company has laid a solid foundation in the surrounding areas of Naples and has set up new factories to preserve tomatoes, fruits and other vegetables. After his death in 1916, the company's managers passed his brother Paul, who continued to continue his work with the same commitment and dedication, managing the development and consolidation of a leading company, able to affirm Italy worldwide. The value of agriculture and food. Cirio is available on the dining table of every Italian family. Since the mid-1920s, Cirio's flexible use of advertising and promotion has become a recognized family brand in Italy, with products everywhere, making it one of the most well-known brands in the Italian food industry. The brand is now identified as a wide range of produce, from canned vegetables to meat and fish, from pasta to coffee, from milk to jam…and more. Just like nature created it, Cirio retained it. The work of the Signorini family continued until 1970, when the company was sold to SME, which was privatized in 1993. Italian Cirio and Save. In 2004, after changing his destiny, Cirio passed the hands of an Italian company that GRUPPO, a European leader in the food protection industry. In many ways, this marks the return of Francesco Cilio’s love for agriculture and his extraordinary commitment to innovation, agriculture and industrial research. Meanwhile, it is a future based on capabilities and business success without forgetting social commitment to producers and consumers, who still provide the best guarantee of natural products that are respected and responsible for protection.