The story of this company starts with Mariano Mercadante, entrepreneur and CEO of Saporalia. In the past decade, he has observed that Italian Gourmet Food has a great potential of being about to explode and set a new amazing trend all over the world.
Expo 2015 in Milan was just the detonator of this phenomenon. Just one year before this Universal Exhibition, ha has found Saporalia, aiming to help all those Importers and Distributors who were (or would have been) dealing with Italian Food, providing them with easy tools and concrete solutions in order to succeed in importing and distributing it.
Importers and Distributors are the essence of a local economy as they make it possible to get things that otherwise would not be available.
In fact, when we started the Saporalia journey, many people were sceptical. In order to make sure that a potential Saporalia Customer clearly sees the value we can add, it takes time.
However, in spite of the challenges, we kept working patiently, and today Saporalia has revolutionized the way to export Italian Gourmet Food, making it accessible and available in a better and more agile way.
Importers and Distributors around the world were used to buying Italian Food directly from producers, thinking it was the most efficient way. This can work when you buy from big industrial companies, but it is greatly inefficient if it is about Gourmet Artisanal Food, where you have to deal with multiple laboratories, which are great artisans producing amazing delicacies but don't have the time and resources to manage a structured and smooth export process. Yes, because if an Importer or Distributor wanted to buy, let's say, twenty different SKUs among Antipasti, Truffle and Sweet categories (for example), they would:
- deal with at least four laboratories
- respect MOQ for each SKU
- place an order for each laboratory
- get certificates and manage bureaucracy for each laboratory
- manage logistics and delivery for each laboratory
- pay for invoices
What Saporalia did was to democratize and facilitate Italian Gourmet Food, from Artisans to the world.
Our products are craft-produced/hand-made by food Artisans who are based in small hidden towns all over the various corners and locations of the Italian Peninsula, using traditional and manual methods of production, giving a big added value which is missing in any other classic industrial kind of product. Therefore, our products cannot be compared with other industrial-quality products.
- > 1000 SKUs available
- No MOQ for the majority of the references.
- Consolidated different products at pallet level (mixed pallet or even half missed pallet).
- Custom and logistic bureaucracy, no stress.
- Great innovation (see, for example, our Balsamic Vinegar to bite, launched in 2022).
- Specific Marketing Support in Saporalia Customer's Market/s.
We want to reach and help only you who are indeed at some point in the process of achieving success through importing and/or distributing Italian Gourmet Food.
But one thing that is crystal clear in the mind of each and every member of Saporalia is: the customers that are choosing our products and services will always get the BEST that we can offer, the BEST effort at the top of our possibilities, without any conflict of interest and without any filter.
Guaranteed. No compromise!
