Besana Group

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Established in 1921 and family owned, Besana Group is today the most important company in Italy and among the top in Europe, for production, processing and marketing of nuts, dried fruit, seeds, chocolate and snacks.

HQ and main production plant in Italy; other plants, distribution centres and commercial offices in Europe (Italy, UK, Germany, Belgium), South America and Asia;  wide range of products (more than 50 new products launched every year), Conventional, Organic and Fair Trade; internal process for toasting, roasting, smoking, chopping, flouring, dicing, coating, spicing, infusing; about 25,000 tons of nuts, dried fruit and seeds processed annuall; more than 100,000,000 small packs produced per year on 35 production lines; High End Systems for Food Safety: Fumigation, Radio Frequency Pasteurization, Steam Vacuum Pasteurization allowing 5 log reduction; in-house Chemical and Microbiological Laboratory.

Core business of Besana Group is working for third parties and packing under customer own label: 70% Primary Private Labels and 30% Large Food Industries.

But Besana also has its own Brands: Besana (Traditional Brand), Almaverde Bio (Organic Brand – Almaverde Bio is the leading Organic brand in Italy), Be-Snack (Innovative Snack Brand), Be-Sweet (Chocolate products).

Top American and European Private Labels, Multiple Retailers, Confectionery and Ice Cream industries have already chosen Besana as a strategic and commercial partner.