PEDON s.p.a. - COMPANY - dried pulses and grain, dessert ingredients, dried mushrooms , gluten-free products, asparagus (in cans and glass jars)

PEDON: EUROPEAN LEADER IN PULSES

5 BUSINESS AREAS
• dried pulses and grain
• dessert ingredients
• dried mushrooms
• gluten-free products
• asparagus (in cans and glass jars)

Our mission is to rapidly satisfy the needs of our interim and end customers, producing and distributing quality foods with full respect for human life and the environment.

The base factors for our competitive advantages are:
• direct control of the food supply chain, differentiation, synergies with other Group companies.
• 60% of turnover achieved with private label lines.
• 60 private label product lines, 15 organic private label product lines.

HISTORY
In 1984 Pedon, after an experience of 20 years in wholesale grocery, launches its first line of dried pulses and cereals. At the end of the 80s Pedon expands into new areas of business such as dried mushrooms and ingredients for dessert and bakery, through the acquisition of 2 small companies in the Vicenza region. In 1998 the opening of the new plant in Molvena allows the unification of all 3 business areas with substantial logistic and management benefits. At that moment the Company disposed of 7.000 covered sqm, 30 workers, a HACCP control plan and an internal quality control system. In 2000 Pedon achieves the ISO certification and the organic production certification. In 2002 a new corporate redesigning produces the new Pedon and Dall’Oglio Group. A sustained and continuous development has enabled the firm to become a leader in its sectors, with an annual growth rate of 18% between 1985 and 2008. It now employs 750 people worldwide in 7 factories with a supply network extending to 10 countries in 4 continents.

ETHICS
Pedon is deeply committed towards ethics and the environment.
In our factories in China and Ethiopia we don’t employ forced or child labour and we are promoting
fair salaries and working hours, eliminating any form of discrimination or harassment.

• Partnership with Cesvi for a project in Zimbabwe (60,000 euro donated over 3 years)
• Partnership with Save the Children for a Project in Ethiopia Acos
factory in Ethiopia equipped with a school for children of working mothers
• Founder members of Assobio
• University and high school partnerships
for student work experience.