“Italia Dei Sapori” is a selector and food supplier of the excellent Italian culinary delights for restaurants, Horeca and retail.
It was born in early 2000, but its story started a long time ago. The company has four products brands: “Salumi del Museo”, “Salumi di Cantina”, “Mastro Egidio” and “Cheeses”, and it can offer a wide range of Italian foods like Prosciutto di Parma (Cured Ham), fresh pasta, olive oil, Italian wine.
"Mine is a story of familiar traditions that started at the end of the ‘50, when my grandfather Eugenio, driven by passion, created a small bovine and pork farm. This is the reality where I was born and in which I grew up, this is the "fil rouge" that influenced (and still doing) my professional life."
Egidio Montanari - Italia dei Sapori founder
Our story
50sTowards the end of the 50s, the Montanari family founded a farm in Massenzatico (a hamlet in the province of Reggio Emilia) with cattle and pig farms and over the years the head of the family, Eugenio Montanari, decided to focus his resources exclusively on breeding of pigs.
60sIn the mid-60s the Montanari family decided to start a small production exclusively of sausages and salami obtained using only the meat from the pigs of their breeding, shortly afterwards their son Renzo Montanari had the intuition to offer his products on the market of Milan with surprising results mainly due to the quality of the proposed product.
60sOver the years, given the increase in demand, it was decided to introduce the production of hams, cups and pancetta, thus completing its range offer without neglecting the peculiarities of its original product, namely the origin of the meat, exclusively from its own breeding , the treatment strictly in accordance with traditional recipes and the flavor that was to be the closest to that of the typical Parma tradition, particularities that can still be found today in the Italia dei Sapori production.
1969In 1969 the Montanari family inaugurated in Carpi the first store dedicated to free service (a forerunner form of supermarket), inaugurated and awarded by the mayor of Carpi, introducing innovations for the time at the forefront.
90sIn the mid-90s, the Montanari family under the leadership of Egidio, the son of Renzo Montanari, completed the whole range of their cured meats and began to create a sales network on the Italian territory.
2000sIn the 2000s the Italia dei Sapori brand was born, which allowed the Montanari family to offer their products throughout the European market, with excellent results.
Italia dei Sapori today
Italia dei Sapori continuously invests in the search for very high quality meat in order to obtain natural and artisanal cured meats without preservatives, which allow its consumers to discover the ancient flavors and aromas of tradition.
Currently the company operates from its headquarters in Soliera in the province of Modena, with a warehouse, a laboratory, a logistic center and a dedicated sales point, and in addition to its supporting product represented by its own lines of cured meats, it selects on the territory important dairies for the production of Parmigiano Reggiano.