Pastas Gallo -

50 YEARS WITH YOU

Gallo is celebrating its 50th birthday with the best-ever present: your loyalty. Half a century of corporate existence, full of successes and satisfaction. Always with a view to the future, we focus on today and look forward to tomorrow.

Pastas Gallo has always been a part of your life and in that of your family. Because we have to go back 50 years, to a Spain depressed after the war, to look for the origin of the brand, when José Espona, at the age of just 20, set up his first flour factory. It was 1946 and he started his adventure with 15,000 pesetas loaned to him by his father and with 10 employees. That year, he achieved an impressive turnover of 20 million pesetas. It was the start of an era.

In the 1950s, the business grew with the production of speciality flours. After a while, following a trip to Italy during which he got to know in depth the world of semolina, José Espona became the leading semolina manufacturer in Spain.

In little more than a decade, the Gallo brand was available in more than 100,000 points of sale throughout Spain. The factories are distributed the length and breadth of the country, obtaining a leading sales position that today still continues. Half a century after its creation, the Gallo Group has consolidated its position as a leading company in the Spanish market, with its vanguard presence in all the markets related to Superior Quality Pasta.
In the desire to bring you product lines every day more suited to your way of life, in 2003, a new pasta and ready-made dishes factory was inaugurated in Granollers, with an investment of 24 million Euros, thereby becoming in the only national manufacturer offering a complete range of all types of pastas, with recipes totally adapted to the Spanish taste: fresh filled pasta, fresh flat pasta, ready-made dishes, dry pasta, fresh sauce and tinned sauce. Chronology of a success 1946. José Espona, at the age of just 20, founds the company known today as Pastas Gallo with the acquisition of a flour factory in Rubí. Production at that time is 10,000 kg per day. 1950. Gallo introduce the first pastas made with durum wheat semolina in Spain 1952. Construction and transfer to a new factory in Terrassa. Production increases to 30,000 kg per day. The product range increases with the inclusion of speciality flours for pastries, fritters and pastas.

		1953. A trip to Italy permits a deeper knowledge of semolina. 1954. The decision is taken to transform the Terrassa flour factory into a semolina factory. 1955. Due to imposition of SNT, the complete and definitive relinquishment of flour production takes place. 1956. The 1st Semolina factory in Spain is established. 1958. The acquisition of the El Carpio (Cordoba) Flour Factory and it is transformed into semolina production.
Production at that time is 60,000 kg per day. 1960. The decision is taken to manufacture durum wheat semolina pasta. The Semolina Factory in Puebla de la Calzada (Extremadura) and the Pasta Factories in Madrid (Faisán) and Valladolid (La Góndola), with their respective brands, are acquired. 1961. Following the absorption of the Ramón Pagés factory, the company Productos Alimenticios Gallo is set up. 1960-1980. Acquisition and reorganisation of new factories in Ferrol, Vigo, Torrelavega, Málaga, Cádiz, Granada, Cartagena, Bailén, Palma de Mallorca&hellip 1968. The first stone of the Granollers factory is laid. 1970. Gallo introduces compound pasta varieties and is consolidated as leading brand. 1978. Setting up of Comercial Gallo. 1980. Acquisition of Saula (Calella y Granollers) and El Águila (Esparreguera). 2000. During the next years, Gallo supports new challenges, launching fresh pastas and sauces onto the market, as well as the refrigerated products range. 2004. Inauguration of the fresh products plant in Granollers, one of the most modern in Europe, equipped with latest generation machinery. With an investment of 24.35 million Euros and a surface area of 10,324 m2, it provides a production capacity of 5,250 kg/h which means 18 million kg per year. Currently, the Gallo group employs more than 500 people.