Italian Fund Takes Majority Stake In Alimenta Produzioni

Traditional Italian crockery Piadina romagnola. Credit: Anastasia Kamysheva/Shutterstock.com.

A money managed by Fondo Italiano d’Investimento has picked up a mostly liking successful Alimenta Produzioni, an Italian baked equipment manufacturer.

In a connection connected 9 January, nan private-equity patient said it is backing Alimenta done its Fondo Italiano Agri&Food Fund (FIAF).

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Financial position of nan woody were not revealed.

The transaction is being carried retired pinch Alimenta’s existing guidance team, which will enactment successful spot and put alongside nan money to support nan group’s “medium-to-long-term” maturation plans.

Established successful 2013, Alimenta is headed by laminitis and main executive Valter Baldacci, on pinch partners Alberto Fenati and Matteo Federici.

The Riccione-based patient has 265 labor and reported revenues of astir €50m ($58.3m) successful 2025.

Pier Felice Murtas, elder partner astatine Fondo Italiano, said: “Alimenta represents a coagulated business level pinch a unique positioning and important maturation opportunities, peculiarly successful world markets.

“Together pinch nan existent guidance squad led by Valter Baldacci – whose achievements successful conscionable a fewer years since nan company’s founding we greatly admit – we stock a medium-to-long-term vision: we purpose to guideline nan group into a caller shape of its journey, leveraging business investments, customer guidelines description and organisational strengthening, while afloat valuing soul expertise.”

Alimenta claims a “leadership” position successful nan Romagna piadina category, aliases Italian-style flatbreads. It besides produces pinsa and different savoury bakery products.

It supplies unit customers from 3 accumulation accommodation and a logistics centre located successful Emilia-Romagna and Marche.

Alimenta has besides accrued its vulnerability to overseas markets, which now correspond much than one-third of its full turnover.

Markets see nan UK, Germany, nan Netherlands, Poland and destinations successful Northern Europe, arsenic good arsenic Australia and nan US.

Fondo Italiano said nan finance will underpin a caller shape of development.

Priorities see reinforcing Alimenta’s world scope – particularly successful pinsa, which now accounts for astir 30% of nan group’s turnover – and “consolidating” its position successful nan home market.

The scheme besides covers nan motorboat of caller merchandise ranges utilizing Altograno flour, described arsenic having a precocious earthy contented of macromolecule and fibre.

This inaugural has been developed pinch Molino Casillo, a flour and semolina shaper based successful Apulia, for which Alimenta holds exclusive licensing authorities successful its applicable merchandise segments.

In addition, nan shared strategy envisages greater attraction connected nan Horeca channel.

Completion of nan woody is anticipated successful nan first half of 2026.