Barilla

Barilla, originally established in 1877 as a bread and pasta shop in Parma, is today an international Group, which is not stock-market-listed. Barilla is the leader in the pasta business worldwide, in the pasta sauces business in continental Europe, in the bakery products business in Italy and in the crispbread business in Scandinavia. The Group employs more than 8,000 people and in 2017 had net sales of more than euro 3.4 billion, with investments in the amount of euro 218 million. The Company has been managed for over 140 years by one family's entrepreneurial experience and is now run by the fourth generation siblings: Guido, Luca and Paolo Barilla. Always oriented toward proper diet through exceptionally flavored and nutritionally balanced wheat products intended for daily use, Barilla became popular worldwide due to its attention to the quality of its products, the result of significant investments in research, innovation and technology, as well as communication. Barilla owns 28 production facilities (14 in Italy and 14 outside Italy), which produce over 1,800,000 tonnes of food products every year, which are exported to over 100 Countries.

At Barilla you are empowered to live and work responsibly and ethically, embracing our value system of respect, trust, courage, intellectual curiosity and passion. It is a company that for 140 years has been driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of its people, that enables us to look beyond established boundaries and to continuously find new ways to improve our value to our people, to our customers and consumers and to the communities. Moreover, we acknowledge diversity as a key factor to drive our future, that is why, you are invited to bring your authentic self to work and enjoy acceptance and understanding.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
At Barilla, our diversity and inclusion journey starts with the recognition that supporting diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and it is also good for business.

- Claudio Colzani, CEO of Barilla Group -

• Employee Resource Groups at Barilla

"Our ERG’s are a key component of our D&I strategy. As a leader, I am proud of our employees who are engaged in driving positive change in our organization and appreciative for everything I learn in my interactions with them" - Claudio Colzani, CEO

"ERG’s are fundamental to the culture change that we are working to achieve at Barilla. As employee-organized/led groups of volunteers, they can motivate change quickly and become a business resource for Barilla" - Kristen Anderson, Chief Diversity Officer

• Barilla Refugee Program

In 2016, we launched the Barilla Refugee Program in Sweden, Italy, Germany and France. It is about giving refugees more work experience to support them in their first integration step into society, because it is the right thing to do and it is good for our business. Today… and every day we stand together #WithRefugees

• Barilla supports the UN initiative to tackle LGBTI discrimination in the workplace

The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, during an address by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Barilla Group was the first Italian company to support the Standards of Conduct for Business aimed at tackling LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and intersex) discrimination in business.

"Give people food that you would give your own children"

- Pietro Barilla

OUR PURPOSE: GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR THE PLANET