Perugina’s Art of Taste
Perugina now has outlets all around the world
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Perugina’s story started on 30 November, 1907, when Francesco Buitoni, Leone Ascoli, Francesco Andreani, and Annibale and Luisa Spagnoli established a confection laboratory in Perugia. (The Buitoni family owned Giovanni e Fratelli Buitoni, a pasta manufacturing company based in Sansepolcro, Arezzo, with a factory in Città di Castello, Perugia.) The confectionary was called Società perugina per la fabbricazione dei confetti. The success of the business enabled the company to move to Fontivegge in the suburbs in 1915, to a production facility that had a cocoa powder production line and hydraulic presses for cocoa butter extraction. These capabilities led to the development of Cacao Perugina in 1917, a product that became a standard for quality cocoa in Italy.