Pizzoli and the history of Italian potatoes

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Patatine

We Love Croccanti

Yellow Flesh Potatoes

Aurea

Barchette

We Love Extrafini

Rossana

Red skin potatoes

We Love Rustiche

Bianca

Early Potatoes

Sfoglie saporite

Sfoglie Saporite

AirFryer

We Love a Spicchi

Viola

UltraVeloci

We Love a Fette

Rotondelle

Selezione per Ristoranti

Una Tira l'Altra

We Love a Cubetti

We Love Con Buccia

Frisè Senti come Crocca!

We Love Ghiotte

Wow che chips!

Wow Che Chips!

Casalinghe

We Love Crocchè

Crocchette

Val Pusteria

Topolino le Croccomagie

Mickey Mouse Croquettes

Gnocchi di patate

Gnocchi di patate

Fior di Purè

Iodì

PDO Potato from Bologna

PGI Potato from Sila

Potatoes from Lombardy

Potatoes from Tuscany

Potatoes from Umbria

Early Potatoes from Sicily

PGI Potato from Fucino

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Extra Patatine

AF Pro Regular Cut

Extra Shoestring

AF Pro Vortex Cut

Extra Steakhouse

AF Pro Deep Crinkle Cut

Extra Wonders

Extra Crispy Kings

Extra Lady Crock

Extra Spikky

Mozzarelline Panate

Crocchè filled with mozzarella

Anelli di Cipolla

Fiori di zucchine

Petali di cipolle

Foglie di salvia

Tris di verdure

Stick di zucchine

Stick di ortaggi misti

Barchette con buccia

Carciofi

Patatine taglio classico

Casalinghe

Fiammifero

Tocchettoni Rustici

Novelle

Spicchi

Spicchi con buccia

Fette con buccia

Crocchette

Purea di patate in dischi

Tocchetti al naturale

Rustici al naturale

Spicchi al naturale

Novelle al naturale

Gnocchi di patate

Chicche di patate

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History

A century of tradition and technology

We've grown from a small agricultural produce dealer to the company behind the successful Patasnella brand, combining engineering innovation with environmental sustainability

The early days

Our company was founded in Budrio, near Bologna, in 1926, when Mario Pizzoli started a small potato trading business. Soon after World War II, his son Ennio invested in new equipment and workers to select and package the potatoes. Bags of Pizzoli potatoes appeared on the shelves of the first supermarkets.

A new insight: frozen potatoes

In the late 1960s, Ennio and his brother Irnerio looked to the future by setting up a new production line for frozen fries. In the following twenty years, their increasing investments in technology and research contributed to widen the company's product portfolio, making it Italy's biggest potato company. Pizzoli fries made their debut in restaurants and supermarkets.

Patasnella

A successful case history

Patasnella

The right product at the right time: in 1998, an R&D project supported by effective marketing made a success of Patasnella, Italy's first oven fries.

An international, hi-tech and sustainable company

At the turn of the new millennium, the company heavily invested in new production lines. Pizzoli was consequently able to expand to foreign markets, promoting all the value of made in Italy products. In 2010, confirming the tangible and consistent commitment to sustainability, the company built a new biomass plant to generate renewable energy using biogas from potato processing waste.

In 2017, Pizzoli created a new, highly automated, low-impact logistics plant in San Pietro in Casale, in the Bologna area. This cold warehouse uses advanced engineering technology and marked the first step towards a new production centre, the biggest one in Southern Europe.

The new production plant

In 2023 was inaugurated the new production plant in San Pietro in Casale (BO), the largest in southern Europe.
An important investment for the growth of the Company and for the national potato industry.
The plant, born from a project of industrial reconversion of the site of a former sugar factory, embodies the principles of sustainability and circularity and it is equipped with the most advanced technologies.