(Finance) – Pernigotti returns to the ice cream market with the new brand “Signor Stefano”. The historic confectionery company from Novi Ligure, which since 2022 has been controlled by the JP Morgan Asset Management fund and Invitalia, is part of a sector where for decades it has been among the main reference operators. The business branch headed by ice creams it had been sold in 2019when Pernigotti was owned by the Turkish group Toksoz.
The official presentation of this important initiative is scheduled on the occasion of “SIGEP World 2025”the 46th edition of the international reference exhibition for the foodservice sector, which will take place from 18 to 22 January at the Rimini Fair. At SIGEP, Pernigotti will present the new catalog with around 60 references relating to semi-finished products (powders and creams) for professional ice cream parlours. The new Ice Cream Division was also created, with the collaboration of great professionals in the sector, and marketing began in Italy and abroad.
The “Signor Stefano” brand – underlines the company – is a tribute to Stefano Pernigottiname of the founder and also of the last heir and knight of the work of the dynasty of confectionery entrepreneurs.
“Our company was the first to industrially produce high quality semi-finished products for professional ice cream making in the mid-1930s and the link with this sector is still alive in the memories of specialized operators”, he confirms Attilio CapuanoCEO of Pernigotti, adding “it is a great emotion to return to this market by paying homage to the founder Stefano Pernigotti with the launch of the new brand ‘Signor Stefano’. We thus intend to underline the depth of the roots and the link with the territory of Novi Ligure, where everything has begun and where the workers and production lines dedicated to this new adventure will work”.
“The great one Pernigotti’s return in this business branch – concludes Capuano – it represents a further step forward towards the relaunch of the company and it is the expression of joint work between the new management and the shareholders, who are strongly determined to restore Pernigotti to the market positions it has always occupied”.