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AQUILAIA ARTE CASEARIA

Company data

General information

Company Name: tre monti qualità e territorio soc. coop.

Commercial Name: AQUILAIA ARTE CASEARIA

Vat number: 01646220531

Contacts

http://www.aquilaia.eu

info@aquilaia.eu

Head office

	VIA DELLA FONTANA 35, 58031 ARCIDOSSO(GROSSETO)
	Ph. 05641936499
	Ph. Italia

First Person

Jacopo Marini

Owner / Administrator

qualitaeterritorio@gmail.com

Second Person

luca mirante

Commercial director

info@aquilaia.eu

Company description

Aquilaia’s birthday can be established on 21 January 2019, the day the new Tre Monti Cooperative was registered.
Also if it is not a good period after 2 years we gained the SECON PLACE at ICDA ( International Cheese and Diary Award) in the category of Hard Italian Cheese !!!

The new Cooperative was born with the intention of restarting the activity of a historic Amiata dairy, the Dairy of Stribugliano – an hamlet of the municipality of Arcidosso – immersed in one of the most beautiful countryside of the Tuscany region, land of centuries-old pastures.

This natural vocation of the territory was the main reason that persuaded some local entrepreneurs to found this factory at the end of the sixties which, over time, has grown and has become appreciated for high quality productions. For years, this activity also represented the main opportunity of employment for the inhabitants of Stribugliano (250 nowadays), reaching twenty employees in some moments.

In the early 2000s, after several changes of ownership, the dairy was taken over by Copaim which made huge investments (over 2M euros) in the structural and plant engineering renovation. The plant was designed according to the best, ultimate technologies and with a view to greater efficiency of production processes, still fully valid today. Copaim management was interrupted following a fire in 2013 which damaged the plant and in particular the seasoning cells.

The dairy activities then restarted in 2016 when an entrepreneur from Gavorrano, Desiderio Boncioli, carried out an intervention to restore the cells; but in December 2017 the business was interrupted again.

Aware of the production potential of the plant and above all of the experience gained by the workers during the various managements – which we absolutely did not want to disperse – we decided to promote a cooperative initiative raising directly from former employees. Their knowledge has become the fulcrum of a project aimed at enhancing a product, pecorino cheese, which is one of the gastronomy excellences of Tuscany. This initiative was also supported by other members in love with this area who believed in the project.

Company Details

Turnover 2021

500.000 - 1M

% export 2021

<25%

Workforce

Main Export Areas

Germany
UK
France

Type of presence on the above markets

We presented our products and we are working to define possible agreemnts

Other Export Areas

Denmark
Germany
Israel
Spain
Portugal
The Netherlands
Luxembourg
France
Poland
Switzerland
USA
Sweden
Belgium
Algeria
Malaysia
India

Certification

Protected Designation of Origin - PDO
Mountain Product Brand of the Tuscany Region

Characteristics

Vegetarian

Products produced

Dairy products (milk / cheese / yoghurt / ice cream / etc.)

Price range

High end product
Medium range product

Main factors of competitiveness of the company

Quality price ratio
Innovation
Quality

our products arre based only of local sheeps milk and , when required aged in Cave

Attachments

Products descriptions english

All our Cheese

Video

Products

PECORINO TOSCANO DOP FRESCO

Formaggio prodotto con latte di pecora secondo il disciplinare del consorzio di tutela del Pecorino Toscano DOP. Il formaggio si presenta in forma cilindrica a facce piane con scalzo leggermente convesso. La pasta bianca tendente leggermente al paglierino, ha un odore lattico e al gusto si presenta fragrante e sapido. La struttura è tenera con eventuale tipica minuta occhiatura.