Respect for the land, the seasons, and those who farm.
For those who demand quality, certified and safe ingredients.

For over 35 years, we have been selecting, transforming and marketing a wide range of food specialities dedicated to catering professionals, in Italy, and around the world.

Continuous improvement at both product and process level is an integral part of our way of working. Constantly open to market inputs and trends in contemporary taste, we research and develop new products and concepts to support and help grow the activities of professional food operators. How? By promoting skills and knowledge in the agri-food sector, strategic partnerships, and marketing-oriented techniques and up-to-date tools.

The taste
for innovation. Always.

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Mission

To satisfy the needs of customers through the search for the very finest raw materials, innovation in facilities and equipment, and the provision of adequate technical, commercial and marketing support, and to pursue excellence, continuous improvement and respect for our stakeholders, from suppliers through to customers, through the valuing of the people, local areas and communities that we come into relation with.

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Vision

To become a leader for quality
and innovation in the production and selection
of speciality food products for the
modern catering world, and to create value
for our stakeholders.

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With our hands, with our heads. With our hearts.

From generation to generation, our values have not changed. This is how we have grown from a craft workshop to a market leader in preserved food products. The principles handed down to us are those that inspire our daily work, identifying us and making us stand out in the market. These are our principles:

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Team spirit, dedication, continuous improvement, willingness, passion. We grow together, to help our customers’ businesses grow.

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Our Story

Foundation.

Professional different experiences but complementary converge into one project giving life to a new company. Demetra is founded, in Talamona in Valtellina.

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Expansion into the Horeca sector.

We carried out a restyling of our image and labels. Furthermore, to consolidate our position, we expanded our range of products to the Horeca channel.

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New premises.

A tangible sign of the corporate reorganization was the construction of our new premises, also in Talamona. A large structure for production dedicated to foodservice.

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The birth of the Demetra Food Academy.

We were one of the first companies in Italy to create a Food Academy. A place of training for customers and promoters, and a meeting point for the development of knowledge, skills and initiatives.

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ISO certification.

A confirmation of our seriousness and professionalism: ISO 9001 Certification. This certification involved a reorganization and enhancement of most corporate functions. Still present and updated to the 2015 version.

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New packaging.

Faithful to the mission of bringing innovation to the kitchen, we researched, developed and adopted new product packaging solutions introducing the first line of flexible coupled aluminium and polypropylene pouches - totally reliable, protective, and easy to store.

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Marketing Revolution.

Food is culture, knowledge and information. We publish “La Voce di Demetra” (‘The Voice of Demetra’) and new communication instruments and interaction with customers.

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A winning team.

Determination, resourcefulness and goals. We launched the DTEAM, and the Commercial and Marketing Master Plan.

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New facility in Morbegno.

New production facility in Morbegno which houses the labelling, packaging, picking and shipping.

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Partnership Wiberg.

To enrich the range of products we offer, we became the exclusive importers of the brand Wiberg in Italy. Well-known and appreciated in the professional sector for its wide, updated range of excellent spices, herbs and condiments.

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Quality news.

After years of research, we implemented the innovative DIVA vacuum cooking system with direct steam injection. We launched the ‘Sapori Sinceri’ retail line dedicated to the final consumer. We achieved FSSC 22000 and ISO 22000 certification.

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Innovation CREM-A-POCHE.

The technological match between the pouch with exclusive design and the DIVA System process.

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Looking to the Future.

The building up of production capacity is followed by the enhancement of sales team along with the focus on marketing communication.

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New Food Academy structure.

A 300 square metre professional kitchen, equipped with the most advanced tools and equipment, created specifically for learning and exploring culinary techniques.

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Italian cuisine is well-known and highly appreciated internationally, just like Demetra’s products.
Indeed, we are on the tables of the best restaurants on all continents, present in over 30 countries through a sales network of specialized distributors followed by a sales and technical team of over 100 employees .

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