A female story that of the historic Milanese brand Rondanini cured meats. Anna Maria Bruno, wife of the last owner Luca Cividini who in the footsteps of Maria Saldarini, wife of the founder Luigi Rondanini, has taken the lead of the cured meats company defending the history, tradition and quality of its products.
Two different centuries, but the same passion and curiosity to experiment. It was November 2019 when Annamaria Bruno became Sole Director, taking over from her husband who had taken over the company almost twenty years earlier. Initially moved by the sense of preserving what her husband had built, Annamaria demonstrated ingenuity and passion for the art of butchery and with the production manager, David Biasion he decided to focus on quality, recovering Maria's old recipes.
Instead, Maria Saldarini met her husband thanks to cured meats. Luigi had opened a laboratory in Busto Arsizio in 1925 and through a "calessino", he delivered the products to the towns in the area, including Casorezzo, the town of Maria. Then the wedding in 1931 and they decided to continue the business together, she in administration.
During the Second World War, the company was seized by the Nazis and used as a warehouse for the occupying troops, but there was the idea of acquiring a factory. In 1955 the Luigi Rondanini sausage factory became a public limited company. Upon Luigi's death, Maria continued in the business together with her son Gianni, managing to maintain the high quality reputation of the family business and to expand into the national market, thanks to the vacuum technique, being the first company to use it. His dedication and entrepreneurial skills were rewarded with the honor of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Annamaria too, in just two years, has shown great entrepreneurial skills. First of all, you launched an investment plan in the plant, in personnel and also in new products and hired a young graduate, a food technologist, to ensure product and production process quality. She also made a restyling of the logo company, launched itself on e-commerce and laid the foundations for landing on the foreign market. In fact, Rondanini's products are already present in France, Belgium and Germany.
And then the hardest test of all: the pandemic. Annamaria was able to face the test by launching a new product: the Curcotto, high quality cooked ham, with the addition of turmeric and star anise, spices whose beneficial properties help protect the body and strengthen the immune system. A healthy, high quality and above all gluten free product.
