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Ferrero SpA
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Key facts
- Company type
- Società per azioni
- Industry
- Food
- Founded
- 14 May 1946 ; 80 years ago ( 1946-05-14 )
- Founder
- Pietro Ferrero
- Headquarters
- Alba, Piedmont , Italy
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Giovanni Ferrero ( executive chairman ) , Lapo Civiletti ( CEO )
- Products
- Confectionery
- Brands
- List Delacre Eat Natural Famous Amos Fannie May Ferrara Candy Company Ferrero-Küsschen Ferrero Rocher Hanuta Keebler Kinder Bueno Kinder Chocolate Kinder Joy Kinder Surprise Mon Chéri Mother's Cookies Nutella Pocket Coffee Raffaello Royal Dansk Thorntons Tic Tac WK Kellogg Co
- Revenue
- € 19 billion (fiscal year 2025)
- Operating income
- €1,034 million (FY 2018–2019)
- Owner
- Ferrero family
- Number of employees
- 47,212 (2023)
- Subsidiaries
- Burton's Biscuit Company , Carambar & Co , Eat Natural , Fannie May , Ferrara Candy Company , Fox's Biscuits , Keebler Company , Michel et Augustin , Mother's Cookies , Royal Dansk , Thorntons , Wells Enterprises , WK Kellogg Co
- Website
- ferrero.com
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 48697
- Revenue
- 19300000000
- Official website
- www.ferrero.com.tw
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Ferrero International SpA (/fəˈrɛəroʊ/ fə-RAIR-oh, Italian: [ferˈrɛːro]), more commonly known as Ferrero Group or simply Ferrero, is an Italian multinational company with headquarters in Alba, Piedmont. Ferrero is a manufacturer of branded chocolate and confectionery products, and the second largest chocolate producer and confectionery company in the world by revenue. Ferrero SpA is a private company owned by the Ferrero family and it has been described as "one of the world's most secretive firms".
It was founded in 1946 in Alba by Pietro Ferrero, a confectioner and small-time pastry maker who laid the groundwork for the introduction of Nutella. The company had a period of tremendous growth and success under Pietro's son Michele Ferrero, who in turn handed over the daily operations to his sons, Pietro Jr. and Giovanni Ferrero (the founder's grandsons). In 2015, following Pietro Jr.'s sudden death in 2011, Giovanni Ferrero became the company's sole leader as executive chairman and majority owner.