Pernigotti returns to the ice cream market with the “Signor Stefano” brand”

New products for artisanal ice cream parlors presented at the Sigep fair in Rimini.

Pernigotti SpA returns to the semi-finished gelato market with the new "Signor Stefano" brand. The historic confectionery company based in Novi Ligure (Alessandria)—owned since 2022 by the Luxembourg-based investment fund JP Morgan Asset Management and Invitalia—returns to a sector where it has been a leading player for decades. In 2019, when it was owned by the Turkish group Toksoz, it sold its business unit to a third party. The official presentation of this important initiative is scheduled for "SIGEP World 2025," the 46th edition of the leading international trade fair for the foodservice sector, which will take place from January 18th to 22nd at the Rimini Exhibition Center. The "Signor Stefano" brand is a tribute to Stefano Pernigotti, the name of the founder and also of the namesake last heir and Knight of Labor of the dynasty of confectionery entrepreneurs.

 “"Our company was the first to mass-produce high-quality semi-finished products for professional ice cream makers in the mid-1930s, and our connection to this sector is still alive in the memory of specialized operators," confirms Attilio Capuano, CEO of Pernigotti SpA. "It's a great thrill to return to this market, paying homage to founder Stefano Pernigotti with the launch of the new 'Signor Stefano' brand. We thus intend to underscore Novi Ligure's deep roots and connection to the local area, where it all began and where the workforce and production lines dedicated to this new adventure will operate. Pernigotti's significant return to this business line represents a further step forward in the company's relaunch and is the expression of the collaborative work between the new management and the shareholders, who are determined to restore Pernigotti to the market position it has always held.".

During "SIGEP World 2025," Pernigotti will present the new "Signor Stefano" catalog, featuring approximately 60 products of semi-finished products (powders and creams) for professional gelato parlors. The new Gelato Division has also been created, in collaboration with leading industry professionals, and marketing has begun in Italy and abroad. "We are starting from a prestigious past, offering new recipes tied to the best tradition and using raw materials and ingredients of the highest quality," emphasizes Gianluca Cazzulo, sales director of Pernigotti SpA. "Just as with the work done for Pernigotti's iconic consumer products, which have been revisited, innovated, and qualitatively improved, such as with the use of only Italian hazelnuts, Pernigotti will also offer its extremely high quality standards in the world of semi-finished products for ice cream, anchored to tradition but incorporating the latest trends that have emerged in these five years of absence from the market. Pernigotti, in fact, aspires to return to being a reference company in chocolate-based products, Pernigotti, and hazelnut paste. We are aware that we are entering a rather crowded market today: it is a very stimulating challenge that we are facing with enthusiasm, humility, but at the same time with great determination, strengthened by the path undertaken so far which has seen, in just two years, the division confectionery to return to play a leading role in the reference market".

Novi Ligure, January 9, 2025