- Full Time Employees
- 10,822
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: major diversified
- Address
- San Bernardo Chile
- IPO Date
- Nov 7, 2011
- Business
- Carozzi S.A. is a Chilean multinational food and beverage enterprise engaged in the manufacturing, processing, and distribution of consumer packaged foods, agro-industrial ingredients, and animal nutrition products. Founded in 1898 and headquartered in San Bernardo, Chile, the company operates across extensive product categories covering dry pasta, instant noodles, specialty pasta, wheat flour, bakery premixes, rice, and pulses; confectionery and sweet snacks, including chocolates, filled biscuits, wafers, hard and soft candies, gummies, marshmallows, cereal bars, alfajores, and holiday panettone; culinary grocery items, comprising tomato pastes, pasta sauces, culinary purees, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, salad dressings, and edible oils; packaged beverages, including powdered juice mixes, fruit nectars, liquid juices, instant coffees, and ice creams; and comprehensive pet food and pet hygiene products for dogs and cats. The company commercializes its products under proprietary brands, including Carozzi, Costa, Ambrosoli, Molitalia, Vivo, Master Dog, Master Cat, Mimaskot, Pomarola, Trattoria, Bresler, Frugelé, Frac, Vizzio, Bonafide, Tres Ositos, and Todinno. Through its agro-industrial subsidiary Agrozzi, it processes and supplies industrial fruit purees, tomato concentrates, and fruit juice concentrates to multinational food manufacturers. Carozzi S.A. operates manufacturing complexes and distribution facilities in Chile, Peru, and Argentina, serving mass retail channels, wholesale distributors, institutional food service clients, and industrial customers across more than 50 export markets in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. In recent corporate developments, Carozzi S.A. consolidated its ownership structure in 2025 by acquiring the remaining 24.38% minority equity stake in its core operating subsidiary, Empresas Carozzi S.A., from Tiger Brands for USD 181 million, increasing its shareholding to 99.99%. The transaction was financed through bank credit facilities and local bond issuances completed across 2025 and 2026. In operational and strategic initiatives, the company advanced its open innovation platform, Carozzi Sinergia Startup, entering collaborative agreements with international food-tech ventures to implement artificial intelligence in ingredient formulation, partnered with Kran to deploy industrial nanobubble technology for energy and wastewater treatment optimization at its San Bernardo facilities, and commissioned a major 5,000-panel photovoltaic solar installation in partnership with Copec to reduce operational carbon emissions.