Tavarnelle Val di Pesa

former Italian comune

church building in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Italy

Carapelli (Carapelli Firenze SpA) is an Italian food company, since 2005 owned by Spanish multinational Deoleo, S.A, based in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, which is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Florence, most famous for its extra virgin olive oil. The company was started as a home business in 1893 by Cesira and Costantino Carapelli. Other members of the Carapelli family joined the business and the company rapidly grew in size and popularity, to become the most modernised food company in Italy by the 1940s. Today, Carapelli Firenze SpA is the leading Italian extra virgin olive oil company