The story of Maruzzella

Igino Mazzola founded his company trading in fish in 1918. In 1938, he bought a factory in the northern Adriatic area, and there he founded his fleet. Mazzola’s story went through all of Italy’s economic and social changes, but at the heart of this journey, there has always been a song. It’s a song written by Renato Carosone in 1958 and it inspired the name Maruzzella. This was the first brand in Italy to introduce the 100 g, single-portion format, changing consumer habits on Italian tables. Tuna would become a pop ingredient in kitchens that, with the arrival of domestic appliances, transformed the traditional role of the housewife. And twenty years before, it was the songs made up by the women in the Marano Lagunare factory that would accompany the days of preparing sardines that came in with the boat, the "bragozzo", a wooden fishing boat with oars, captained by Bepi Formentin.