Conad Tuna in Olive Oil, is processed and packaged on behalf of Conad by Nino Castiglione Srl based in Trapani.
Ratings: fairly compact tuna, smells and tastes like a good canned tuna of above average quality.
Conad born in Bologna in 1962, it is a cooperative company active in large-scale distribution, again in the same year 1962 the National Retailer Consortium, a limited liability cooperative company, was established in Bologna. There are 14 buying groups to which 420 retail partners belong. In the 1970s Conad was present in all Italian regions and reached the largest number of associates in its history: 196 groups and 19,471 retailers. In the 1980s, the big leap, in the year of the twentieth anniversary, with about 200 superettes and supermarkets, Conad ranks among the very first places in Italy in the modern network.
The Nino Castiglione Company was born in Sicily in 1933 by Nino Castiglione in a small factory in Trapani. Soon the business moves to an ancient trap overlooking the sea. We are in the era in which there are many traps in the area and the fishing and processing of tuna are already part of the culture of the place: the tuna fishermen, local workers who grew up fishing for bluefin tuna from the Mediterranean, lower their nets according to complex but environmentally friendly systems, criteria that safeguard small fish and reduce incidental fishing of other species.
