Di Leo cookie factory wins the 2019 Bio Awards for Fattincasa Bio cookies with pomegranate. An Italian excellence in baked goods, the company makes several lines of genuine cookies. Also for vegans and those intolerant to nuts. All produced, strictly, without palm oil, GMOs, hydrogenated fats and preservatives.
Di Leo, historic cookie factory
Di Leo Pietro is now one of Italy’s leading cookie manufacturers. The Matera plant-18,000 square meters on a total area of 100,000 square meters-contains five production lines. For an annual production capacity of 18,000 tons.
The company was founded in Altamura in 1860 as a small bread oven. But the family business originated much earlier. The earliest traces of bread making by the Di Leo family date back to 1663. Generation after generation, the enterprise has grown to its current size. Without setting aside the passion for true authenticity.
The Bio Awards 2019
The Bio Awards are given to companies that have excelled in the conception, implementation and market launch of innovative bio products. It is awarded by a jury of large-scale retail buyers and industry professionals.
The award, now in its fourth year, is organized by Bio&Consumi magazine and the Tespi Mediagroup publishing house and presented at SANA, the international organic and natural food fair.
‘Di Leo has always been committed to the production of genuine, quality cookies, and in recent years has expanded its product range by offering organic, vegan, and nut-intolerant cookies. We are pleased to collect this award for ‘Fattincasa Bio with Pomegranate’ with which we offer our consumers an organic cookie, with high nutritional value, tasty because it is enriched with a typical red fruit of the Mediterranean and with an affordable price‘, said Ezio Pinto, the company’s marketing manager.
Professional journalist since January 1995, he has worked for newspapers (Il Messaggero, Paese Sera, La Stampa) and periodicals (NumeroUno, Il Salvagente). She is the author of journalistic surveys on food, she has published the book "Reading labels to know what we eat".