Granarolo

The most important Italian milk supply chain directly owned by associated producers in a cooperative form.

Granarolo is the largest agro-industrial group in the country with Italian capital that includes two different and synergistic realities: a cooperative of milk producers (Granlatte) that operates in the agricultural sector and collects the raw material, and a joint-stock company (Granarolo SpA) , which transforms and markets the finished product and has 14 production sites located throughout the national territory and 7 foreign sites.

The Granarolo Group now has over 600 dairy farmers, 70 means for the collection of raw materials at the barn, 720 distribution vehicles that move 850 thousand tons of milk per year and serve more than 50 thousand points of sale every day in Italy reaching 20 million Italian families.

The business portfolio expanded in 2004 with a greater share in the yogurt area - thanks to the acquisition of the Yomo group - and in that of dairy products with the acquisition of Lat Bri in 2011.
With the absorption of CIPF Codipal in 2013, the Group has also become the 1st importer of hard Italian cheeses and the 2nd of fresh cheeses in France. In the following years the Group has grown a lot abroad and today about 30% of the turnover is made outside Italy.
The Group's business is today articulated: milk and cream, yogurt and dairy products (fresh and seasoned, also DOP), to which are added other products such as desserts, butter, eggs, bechamel and from 2015 also pasta, Parma Ham DOP, products vegetables, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena PGI.
Through the diversification of its portfolio, Granarolo's mission abroad is to export the tradition of Made in Italy excellence, also leaving the dairy perimeter, proposing itself as one of the main reference groups of Italian agri-food products.

Granarolo has adopted an approach to environmental sustainability based on the following strategic objectives:

• prevent, control and reduce the environmental impact by defining concrete and measurable corporate objectives;
  
• make its entire production chain more sustainable from stable to disposal;
  
• increase the environmental awareness of stakeholders, including the consumer.

• A commercial agreement is in place promoted by Dr. Mauro Roda to make available to Granarolo our skills in the market of the People's Republic of China.