An integrated pasta hub in Foggia, Puglia, worth one hundred million euros. Barilla is revising its industrial setup in Southern Italy, improving the Group’s sustainability, logistical and production efficiency, with a consolidated turnover of 4.837 billion euros and 8,823 employees worldwide in 2025. It is also redefining the role of some production sites through the entry of industrial partners capable of ensuring continuity and supporting development. A strategy designed “to remain competitive in a challenging market like pasta,” explains the head of Operations of the company’s Meal Solutions, Giovanni Palopoli, who confirms “our industrial commitment in the South.”
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The project, which will take shape between 2028 and 2030, involves the construction of a new generation mill to serve the existing pasta factory, creating new jobs. At the same time, advanced negotiations are underway for proposals submitted by Pastificio Liguori S.p.A. for the acquisition of the Marcianise (Caserta) plant and Molino Casillo S.p.A. for the mills in Altamura (Bari) and Castelplanio (Ancona). For both operations, the Group, which has already started discussions with trade unions on the industrial plan’s contents, considers “a fundamental prerequisite” the employment continuity for all people involved.
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Liguori and Casillo have already expressed their willingness and intention to preserve the production continuity of the sites involved, protecting employment and skills present in their respective territories and ensuring new long-term development prospects. In the same sites, productions destined for the Barilla Group will continue to be made, based on multi-year supply contracts with the purchasing companies. “The creation in Foggia of one of the Group’s strategic pasta hubs meets the need to improve our logistical and production efficiency,” Palopoli adds, “At the same time, we have set as essential conditions the production continuity of the sites involved and the protection of employment and treatment of all people affected by the operations.”
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