Forty-six documented years: on 8 March 2017, a production report dating back to 1971 was found.
At the time, Mr. Gualtiero Mazzoni had a clear intuition: responding to the needs of Italian canning industries by transforming the local surplus of high-quality strawberries, supported by skilled labour.
The first processing activities in the 1970s took place in a warehouse in San Lazzaro di Savena, in the province of Bologna.
The document precisely describes the quality of the finished product, with details on organoleptic characteristics, Brix level, colour, acidity and taste.
The strawberries processed were of the Gorella variety, traditionally grown in the province of Ferrara.
