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| The San Giorgio Company Background |
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| San Giorgio Macaroni Company was founded by Girolamo Guerrisi in 1914 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1890, Guerrisi came to America in 1912, where he worked at numerous jobs until he found modest success with a small fruit business. In 1914, he took over the Keystone Macaroni Company in Lebanon, Pennsylvania from an elderly Italian macaroni maker and renamed it San Giorgio Macaroni. |
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| Delmonico Foods, Inc. was founded as the Kentucky Macaroni Company in Louisville, Kentucky by Joseph T. Viviano in 1928. Viviano came to the United States from Palermo, Sicily in 1899, and owned and successfully operated macaroni plants in St. Louis and Chicago before settling in Louisville. In 1946, the firm adopted the name of the famous New York restaurant, Delmonico. In 1975, Delmonico was merged with San Giorgio Macaroni Company. |
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| The Ideal Macaroni Company was founded in 1903 by Pasquale Ippolito, an Italian immigrant, who began making pasta behind the family's general store in Cleveland, Ohio. His son, Leo Ippolito, and his grandson, Pat Ippolito, carried on the business aimed at a wholesale market niche. In 1968, the Ideal Macaroni Company was combined with the Mrs. Weiss Noodle Company. The Ideal by San Giorgio product line has been the leading brand of dry pasta in the Cleveland market for a number of years. |
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| The combination of San Giorgio, Delmonico and Ideal acquisitions make up the current San Giorgio brand. San Giorgio products are distributed in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and parts of Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia, and Ohio, but are most popular in the metropolitan areas of New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh. |
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