Pizza Sprint is taken over by the Irish company Crust & Crumb. The group led by Mark McCaffrey has acquired the producer from Castiglione d’Adda, in the Lodi area, specialized in pizza bases, stuffed pizzas, focaccias, and pinsas.
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For Pizza Sprint, the acquisition comes after months of crisis and uncertainty about the future of the plant and about 70 workers. For Crust & Crumb, it means obtaining that production base in continental Europe that the group had identified among its growth objectives.
The Pizza Sprint crisis after the collapse of French orders
Pizza Sprint’s problems began with the sharp reduction of orders from its main French client. In March, production at the Castiglione d’Adda plant fell to a minimum.
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According to Flai Cgil, that client accounted for about 95% of production. In April, the ministry announced the authorization of twelve months of extraordinary wage supplementation. In the same period, contacts began for a possible sale: by mid-month, seven entrepreneurs were interested.
It all started from a small take-away pizzeria
Pizza Sprint was founded in 1992 in Casalpusterlengo, when the Spizzi family opened a take-away pizzeria. Eight years later, the business changed scale with the production laboratory in Castiglione d’Adda.
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