Respect for your privacy is our priority

The cookie is a small information file stored in your browser each time you visit our web page.

Cookies are useful because they record the history of your activity on our web page. Thus, when you return to the page, it identifies you and configures its content based on your browsing habits, your identity and your preferences.

You may accept cookies or refuse, block or delete cookies, at your convenience. To do this, you can choose from one of the options available on this window or even and if necessary, by configuring your browser.

If you refuse cookies, we can not guarantee the proper functioning of the various features of our web page.

For more information, please read the COOKIES INFORMATION section on our web page.

Refuse

News

ANICAV: full support for a PGI for Naples peeled tomatoes

19/04/2023 - François-Xavier Branthôme

The ANICAV has announced its "full support for a recognition that protects a product symbolic of 'Made in Italy' and enhances the value of the entire industry."
According to the ANICAV's General Manager Giovanni De Angelis, "with a turnover of 1.5 billion euros, ‘Pelato di Napoli’ would immediately become one of the best-selling and best-known PGIs in the world.”

The ANICAV has given its full and determined support to the recognition of a Protected Geographical Indication for the "Neapolitan Peeled Tomato", whose approval process, after its publication in the Official Journal, awaits the final step: European Community registration.
Once completed, the process would guarantee the protection and value enhancement of one of the most representative products of Italian gastronomic culture, especially abroad, as well as a significant increase in the economic value of the entire sector. These different considerations were discussed in the course of a debate organized during the major exhibition dedicated to the world of food, the "Cibus Connecting Italy" in Parma, in which the ANICAV, Coldiretti Campania and Italia Ortofrutta participated.
Available figures show that approximately 950,000 tonnes of fresh tomatoes are grown for the production of canned peeled tomatoes in the five PGI regions (Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Molise and Puglia) with a turnover of almost EUR 1.5 billion, of which more than 1 billion comes from foreign trade. The new geographical indication label would undoubtedly place Neapolitan peeled tomatoes among the best known and most sold PDO/PGI products, along with Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano cheeses, Parma ham, buffalo mozzarella and balsamic vinegar.

"We welcome the enthusiasm and full support expressed today by the agricultural world," said Giovanni De Angelis, the ANICAV's General Director. “The synergy of the entire sector is essential to achieve this important goal and overcome unnecessary parochialism. We reiterate our full support to the Promotion Committee led by President Lino Cutolo and we look forward with great confidence to the completion of a process that can give a new impetus to the consumption of this true product of excellence from the Italian agri-food sector, a consumption which is unfortunately declining compared to other types of canned tomatoes."
De Angelis concluded: "We are certain that the PGI will bring great benefits not only to the industrial sector, but also to all agricultural producers in areas that are suitable for growing oblong tomatoes. Today we have all reaffirmed the importance of moving forward together in the same direction, in the interest of the entire industry, in favor of a product that is emblematic of ‘Made in Italy’ around the world."

Some complementary data
The ANICAV (Associazione Nazionale Industriali Conserve Alimentari Vegetali) was founded in Naples on February 5, 1945, and is the largest association representing tomato processing companies in the world in terms of number of member companies and quantities of processed products. It brings together three quarters of the processing industry operators working within the country's borders, who as a whole account for about 70% of all processed tomatoes in Italy and almost all the whole-peeled tomatoes produced worldwide, with a turnover, in 2022, of EUR 3 billion (equal to 75% of the total turnover of the Italian tomato processing sector). About 60% of this production is destined for export, both to Europe (Germany, France, United Kingdom) and to other countries (USA, Japan, Australia), making the tomato an ambassador of ‘Made in Italy’ excellence around the world.

Italy is the leading processor and exporter of canned tomatoes, ahead of Spain, the United States and Portugal. The products covered by the PGI for Neapolitan Peeled Tomatoes are only part of the Italian activity in this sector.

Revenue generated by Italian canned tomato exports increased dramatically in 2022, reaching EUR 1.445 billion, up 33% compared to the previous three years. The sector's main markets are the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, France, Japan and Australia.

Sources: ANICAV, Trade Data Monitor

Related companies

ANICAV

Professional or non-profit organisation See details

Trade Data Monitor

Services (Training, Consultancy, Transport, etc.) See details

Italy: controversy around the PGI «Peeled Tomatoes of Naples»

06/04/2021 See details

Southern Italy: finally a \"peeled tomato\" PGI

25/01/2018 See details

Back

________________________________________

Editor : TOMATO NEWS SAS - MAISON DE L'AGRICULTURE - TSA 48449 - 84912 AVIGNON Cedex 9 - FRANCE
contact@tomatonews.com
www.tomatonews.co m

Supporting partners