Carapelli
Carapelli (Carapelli Firenze SpA) is an Italian food company, currently owned by
Deoleo, S.A, based in
Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, which is a small town in the
Metropolitan City of Florence, most famous for its extra virgin
olive oil. The company was started as a home business in 1893 by Cesira and Costantino Carapelli. Other members of the Carapelli family joined the business and the company rapidly grew in size and popularity, to become the most modernised food company in Italy by the 1940s. Today, Carapelli Firenze SpA is the leading Italian extra virgin olive oil company (with brand such as
Carapelli, Sasso, Maya) where 30% of its production is exported to
Europe and the
Americas.
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