The world’s history began from the Sea

The world’s history began from the Sea

Icat Food today

Icat Food imports premium quality seafood products from all over the world, distributing them in Italy: it is a company of experts of the sea.

Developed from the traditions and entrepreneurial experience of an Italian family – Teglio – over the course of more than 170 years, the company has built up a remarkable heritage of expertise and knowledge of the sea, fishing and the distribution of its products.

Icat Food brings seafood specialities to consumers, in cans and glass containers, choosing exclusively the finest products and the most sophisticated processing techniques.

— Our history —

  • 1850

    In Genoa, Laudadio Teglio founded a company for importing salt fish.
    This marked the beginning of the Icat Food story.

  • 1900

    The company invests abroad. The brothers Roberto, Federico and Guglielmo purchase a factory for salting sardines, in Polperro, Cornwall.

  • 1920

    Laudadio’s son Roberto takes over leadership of the company, managing its operations in Italy and Great Britain.

  • 1945

    During the problematic war years and the period following the conflict, Roberto’s son Mario was at the helm of Icat Food. Notwithstanding the difficulties of those times, he laid the foundations for future expansion.

  • 1965

    Piero Teglio took on the leadership of Icat Food and reorganised company business.

  • 1975

    Icat Food began distribution for the Spanish brand Consorcio, founded by Giacomo Croce in Madrid as a consortium of Spanish tuna fishermen on the Cantabrian Sea.

  • 1985

    The company purchased the Moro brand, founded in 1912, and the historic brand Angelo Parodi founded in 1888.

  • 2001

    Giorgia Serrati Teglio further developed the company and created the conditions permitting today’s levels of development.

  • 2011

    Purchase of the Alisa brand from the Spanish group Deoleo, specialising in black and green olives that represent the finest olives from the Iberian peninsula.

  • 2012

    Icat Food is granted the status of historic Italian company by the Genoa Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Artisanship.

  • 2020

    Giorgia Serrati Teglio, President of Icat Food since 2001, nominated Cavaliere del Lavoro.

  • 2022

    Icat Food inaugurates the new eco-friendly logistics and distribution hub in Arquata Scrivia.
    100% of the warehouse's energy needs come from photovoltaic sources.

  • The origins of success.

     1850

  • Beyond the sea, for the sea.

     1900

  • The first generational change.

     1920

  • Resolute determination and passion can overcome all obstacles.

     1945

  • Changing times call for new organisational processes.

     1965

  • The team expands.

     1975

  • The arrival of two leading names.

     1985

  • New millennium, new leadership.

     2001

  • The launch of olives

     2011

  • A historic award

     2012

  • Nomination as Cavaliere del Lavoro.

     2020

  • A new warehouse.

     2022

Icat Food’s mission: To be a company of the experts of the sea, respecting the marine ecosystem and its products, by means of a perfect balance between intuition and innovation on the one hand and respect and loyalty to tradition on the other.

Values: Throughout its long experience in the seafood sector, Icat Food has always been guided by the principles of honesty, transparency and integrity in implementing its business activities, conscious of the attention paid by public opinion to issues of Corporate Governance and sustainability in the seafood sector.

Mission, Values

Mission, Values

Icat Food’s mission: To be a company of the experts of the sea, respecting the marine ecosystem and its products, by means of a perfect balance between intuition and innovation on the one hand and respect and loyalty to tradition on the other.

Values: Throughout its long experience in the seafood sector, Icat Food has always been guided by the principles of honesty, transparency and integrity in implementing its business activities, conscious of the attention paid by public opinion to issues of Corporate Governance and sustainability in the seafood sector.

— our values —

Integrity and honesty, professional expertise, discretion, transparency, attention to health and the environment.