Barilla was founded in 1877, in the town of Parma, as a bread and pasta shop. Today it is Italy’s largest food-processing industry, articulated into 26 production sites, with direct control over eight mills supplying 70% of raw material requirements.
 Barilla is undisputedly the leading name in pasta in Italy and throughout the world. It is the first Italian group for baked products (not to mention pasta sauces), and third in Europe with the brands Mulino Bianco, Pavesi and Wasa. In 2001, its production sites in Europe, Asia and the Americas recorded an overall output of 1,265,000 tons of food products featured on dining tables the world over: durum-wheat pasta, egg and filled pasta, pasta sauces, bread surrogates, short-pastry and filled biscuits, snacks, cakes and crisp bread. Barilla is a very special company – a family-run multinational, squarely-set on the shoulders of four generations of the Barilla family.
A business approach born of the traditions and principles of its founders.
Barilla food production is based on three principles: product quality, attention to nutritionally-balanced eating and of course flavour, the unmistakable hallmark of the entire Barilla range. The Group objective is to make its contribution to good health by offering nutritious, high-quality products. Barilla has been led by four generations of the same family. Today, Group President Guido Barilla is assisted by vice-presidents Luca and Paolo Barilla. Barilla currently exports approximately one third of all production to over 100 countries, a share that grew by some 10% in 2001 and is bound to increase with the development of Barilla’s international activities.
In Lebanon, Barilla leads and by far the pasta & sauce market making it the # 1 brand in each of the 2 categories.
Barrilla Sauce
Napoletana
 Born of a century-old passion for pasta, Barilla Sauces bring on your table all the creativity of good Italian cuisine. Every recipe is studied to enhance every single shape, from the most traditional to the most creative.
Prepared only with selected ingredients, Barilla Sauces are dedicated to those who love Mediterranean flavors, so intense and natural, fresh and solar.
Napoletana sauce as the name says, evokes Neapolitan’s prediction for good cuisine, and has in tomatoes its most important ingredient. Indeed tomatoes are the basis of many recipes of the Italian culinary tradition and more in general, of the Mediterranean one. But to this brilliant main character, Barilla added sweet notes of onions, the tangy flavour of garlic, the fragrance of thyme and parsley and matchless olive oil. All for a flavoured, yet so simple, recipe that has become a classic.
 Pesto Alla Genovese
Barilla Pesto Sauces, born from the best Italian regional gastronomic tradition, offer a great range of proposals, created to enhance every type of pasta shape. Prepared only with the best selected ingredients, Pesto Alla Genovese is a precious partner in the kitchen always ready to enrich your dishes.
Pesto Alla Genovese Barilla is prepared with fresh basil to give a unique and intense fragrance. The basil is expertly blended with pine kernels, pecorino cheese, Grana Padano cheese, extra virgin olive oil, garlic and salt.
Barilla Pasta
Classic Italian Cuts
 Tradition and innovation, quality and imagination, rigourness and creativity: All this and much more makes a dish of authentic Italian pasta. Barilla knows this, because it has been producing durum-wheat semolina pasta for over a century with special attention to quality and respect towards tradition. In fact, today as in the past, Barilla accurately selects the best durum-wheat, controlling all processing stages, through to the final inspection. This attention to detail is a must, to obtain a pasta of ideal consistency, always perfectly “al dente”, and the most loved by Italian people.
Simple and essential, just like all good habits, pasta Barilla is prepared with expert mastery: wheat and water, as well as all the experience and passion of a century-old history, and an ongoing tradition for continous research. This is why pasta Barilla has become a symbol of Italy in the world and the n.1 pasta in Italy. With its distinguishing “ Blue Box”, pasta Barilla was welcomed in all homes, accompanying the life of Italian people for many generations: a box designed to contain a small treasure of delicacies, ready to create with you tantalizing, nourishing dishes, always “al dente”. It spread progressively from Italy to foreign countries asserting itself as the most appreciated pasta by gourmets all over the world.
The wide range of Pasta Barilla includes a great number of shapes, studied to keep the best cooking consistency and to blend perfectly with any type of sauce, simple and fast or rich and sophisticated. From the most classic shapes such as Spaghetti or Penne, to the most particular such as Pipe Rigate or Fusilli, pasta Barilla knows how to make your every recipe unique and satisfy even the most demanding palates.
If you love pasta and want to treat your family and friends with truly creative and imaginative cuisine, enjoying all flavours belonging to tradition, choose among Barilla’s offer the one that you like the most. Long or short, smooth or grooved, baked in the oven or as a fresh salad or again simply seasoned with butter or Parmigiano Reggiano, pasta Barilla will always be ready to accompany you in a simple but inimitable journey discovering the pleasures of good living, eating Italina style.
Special Italian Cuts
 Barilla would like to unveil the secrets of La Collezione for you: a selection of special pasta shapes ideal to satisfy your creativity in the kitchen. With Barilla you can create authentic Italian pasta dishes, rich of flavour and a very particular nature, perfect in retaining both simple sauces as well as the creative, bringing out all the personality of your recipes.
Ingredients
La Collezione Barilla offers many different ideas to create original and elegant menus, guaranteeing an accurately controlled quality. Because Barilla’s passion for past has been continuing since 1877, and today as well as yesterday, Barilla pays as much as great attention as ever to details such as quality by choosing the best durum-wheat and carefully controlling all processing phases, up to the final inspection.
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