Bauli S.p.A. is an Italian food company of

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products such as

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panettone Panettone is an Italian type of sweet bread and fruitcake, originally from Milan, Italy, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as in South America, Eritrea, Australia, ...

, colomba and

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, founded in

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in 1922 by pastry chef Ruggero Bauli. Between 2020 and 2021, Bauli re-confirmed itself as the leader company in the recurrence market with a 37% share for

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and 33% for

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History

The company was founded by Ruggero Bauli in 1922 in Verona. The Bauli market share in so-called special occasion products (colombe, pandoro and panettone) stands at over 32.5% for Easter products and 39% for Christmas products. Production is around 7 million pandoro, 8.2 million traditional panettone, 400 million croissants, as well as traditional colombe, and other puff pastry-based products and biscuits. In 2004 Bauli bought the company F.b.f. and in 2006 the

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

-based company Doria, producer of "Bucaneve", "Atene" and "Doriano" biscuits. On 31 July 2009, Bauli acquired from the

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group the bakery products marketed under the Motta, Alemagna, "Tartufone Motta", "Trinidad" and "Gran Soffice" brands and the related production site in San Martino Buon Albergo. On 9 February 2013 Bauli took over the Bistefani group, producer of Krumiri biscuits; three years later, in March 2016, the company's

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plant closed. In 2017, Bauli opened their first factory in

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in India, investing €34 million, hoping to make India their second largest market. Bauli also operates 13 "Minuto Bauli" coffee bars across the North of Italy, in addition to one located in

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, with a further store planned in

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External links

Lemma on Bauli
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References

{{commons Italian companies established in 1922 Companies based in Veneto