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Supplier News BRIEFS GOURMET NEWS AUGUST 2019 www.gourmetnews.com SUPPLIER NEWS 1 0 Parmacotto Partnership Promises Prosciutto Proliferation and Chief Executive Officer, respectively. "It's a partnership," Schivazappa said. "Cibo Italia has been on the market for 10 years and is very well known. They have a very strong presence on the market from a commercial point of view." With the addition of the products made by Parmacotto SpA to the range formerly offered by Cibo Italia, the new com- pany will now be able to offer a range of meat products that are clean-label and produced with no antibiotics ever, Sitá said. "We can really cover the whole category of premium meats from Italy," he said. "They're better for the environment, better for the animal and better for the people." Parmacotto LLC, based in New Jersey, has already begun distributing its first products in the U.S. and will be ramping up its dis- tribution over the next few months, in time to ensure that stores across the U.S. have the Parma- cotto prod- ucts in stock well ahead of the holiday season. "We have a vision for North America," Sitá said. Once those first products are in the stores, retailers can be assured that Parmacotto already has the supply chain in place to provide a ready supply of consistently high- quality product, according to Schivazappa. In Italy, Parmacotto SpA works with a network of farm- ers who are held to the com- pany's standards for how the ani- mals are raised, and by 2020, all of the Parmacotto products sold in the U.S. will be Animal Welfare- certified, he added. Packaging for the new brand will call out its clean- label quality and the promise that the meat was raised with no antibiotics ever, so that Americans will have the confi- dence that they're buying a quality prod- uct, Schivazappa said. "Everybody can taste the quality," he said. "They are true to our land of tradition.... They make you happy when you eat them." Parmacotto LLC will be supporting the launch into spe- cialty grocery stores and gourmet food- service establish- ments with in-store marketing programs and a social media campaign, according to Sitá. "At the end of the day, we want to interact one-on-one with consumers," he said. "We're very hopeful that consumers will accept it." The product line, already available in several states, includes Parmacotto Ital- ian Roasted Ham, Prosciutto Cotto Ital- iano, Cooked Ham All Natural, Italian Roasted Pork Loin, Mortadella, Porchetta, Speck Alto Adige IGP, Sopres- sata, Toscano Salame, Genoa Salame, Mi- lano Salame, Salame Felino PGI, Spianata Romana, Spianata Calabrese, Prosciutto di Parma, Prosciutto di San Daniele and Prosciutto Italiano – all of- fered in packaging for foodservice use as well as pre-sliced in retail packaging. The brand's new zero line of meats that are produced with no antibiotics ever from humanely raised animals includes ABF Mortadella, ABF Cooked Ham, ABF Prosciutto Italiano, ABF Porchetta, ABF The Italian Roasted Ham, ABF The Ital- ian Roasted Pork Loin and ABF Salami Italiano – all offered pre-sliced for retail sale. For more information, visit www .parmacottousa.com. GN BY LORRIE BAUMANN In 1971, Sophia Loren got laughs im- porting mortadella into the United States in "Lady Liberty" because she brought her sausage into the country "without benefit of inspection," as American au- thorities express the matter now when they notify the public about similar de- bacles that occur now and then in real life. A new venture has formed to bring similar products into the U.S. through le- gitimate channels that promise a steadier supply than Sophia Loren's character, Maddalena Ciarrapico, was able to man- age to satisfy the same American hunger for authentic Italian meats – albeit with- out the laughs provided by Loren's comedic abilities. Cibo Italia and Parmacotto SpA have joined forces to form a new American com- pany to import a wide range of high-quality cured meats, deli meats and cooked ham from Italy into the United States and to dis- tribute it nationally into the American mar- ket. The new company, Parmacotto, LLC is a partnership between Larry Saia and Alessandro Sitá, who have been doing busi- ness in the American market as Cibo Italia for 10 years now, and Par- macotto SpA, an Italian pro- ducer of cooked ham. As Parma- cotto, LLC, they're plan- ning to add the cooked ham products for which Parma- cotto is known in Italy to the Cibo Italia line of imported sausages and deli meats and distribute all of them nationally in the U.S. under the Parmacotto brand name, said Andrea Schivazappa, the Chief Execu- tive Officer of Parmacotto SpA, which will own 70 percent of the LLC. "In Italy, we are an extremely well known brand, held in the highest regard. Parmacotto is a staple in salumerias, retail stores and households alike," he said. "Our goal for the United States launch is to obtain the same status in the American market." 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