Carraro.
A century of history
The photographs companies keep in their files usually have a flavour, a particular taste. They speak of people, work and passion. Our company also has a similar collection and when we have some old portraits in our hands we always try to understand who we are looking at or the situation depicted. This lets us feel the history of
Caffè Carraro all the more on our skin, because on those photographs, however old, there is still a flavour, an aroma: that of fine coffee. Countless anecdotes of bartenders, delicatessen owners, letters from consumers, parchment packets and agents with vans proudly displaying the freshly painted Carraro trademark. These vans and lorries were often raising clouds of dust as they whizzed along roads that were sometimes mere dirt, while waiting for them without a doubt at the front door would have been a gentleman who sheltered from the sun in the shade of a pergola, with a pencil behind his ear or wearing a fashionable waistcoat. Other times, other flavours. And we can only just remember them, for no other reason than that 1927 is not just around the corner and a great deal of water has passed under the bridge. Many of us were still not born and coffee was just an illustration on a postage stamp from far-off lands. But the culture of fine espresso was already putting down its roots in our country and
Caffè Carraro was the star.
1896
Gaetano Carraro began selling some types of green coffee in his grocery shop in Schio (VI) for roasting in the fireplace at home.
1927
His son Mario established the first workshop for roasting and packaging coffee on an industrial scale.
1962
The company moved to a new plant in Via SS. Trinità in Schio.
Production: 120 Ton/year
The seventies
Caffè Carraro distinguished itself with the following innovations: it was among the first to bring tinned and vacuum-packed coffee to the market.
Production: 200 Ton/year
1986
The new company make-up and a new organization laid the foundations for relaunching the company on a broad scale.
Production: 270 Ton/year
The nineties
Caffé Carraro became the star of the Italian market and expanded beyond the Bar channel into the Food sector too (supermarket chains and discount).
Production: 1400 Ton/year
1999
A great new factory with a production capacity of 10,000 tonnes of roasted coffee per year was inaugurated in the Schio industrial estate, equipped with avant-garde machinery and technologies, and using processing methods aimed at the maintenance of that TOTAL QUALITY sought so obstinately and achieved over the years.
Production: 1,800 Ton/year
2009
The quality of Carraro Espresso is increasingly appreciated abroad too.
Production: 4,500 Ton/year
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