Galletas Fontaneda

Fontaneda
IndustryFood processing
Founded1881; 143 years ago (1881)
Headquarters
Av. Generalísimo, 36
Aguilar de Campoo
34800
,
Spain
ProductsCookies
Biscuits
Crackers
RevenueDecrease €30.149 million (1997)[1]
Decrease €4.281 million (1997)[1]
Total assetsDecrease €16.068 million (1997)[1]
Number of employees
Decrease 600 (1997)[1]
A galleta María of Fontaneda, the brand's classic

Fontaneda is a Spanish food sector company dedicated to the manufacture of crackers and biscuits (called "cookies" in North America). At its height, between 1950 and 1975, Fontaneda had yearly revenues of more than 10 billion pesetas.[2]

It was founded in the town of Aguilar de Campoo by Eugenio Fontaneda in 1881. In 1996, the multinational Nabisco bought it for over 4.5 billion pesetas[3] and in 2002, under the direction of United Biscuits, it closed its facilities, maintaining the trademark to manufacture it in other factories in Spain.

The old Fontaneda factory in Aguilar de Campoo was acquired by Grupo Siro, which took over its staff and relaunched the activity in the town, which is considered "the biscuit town" of Spain.[4] Since 2006, the Fontaneda brand has been marketed by the multinational Mondelēz International (former Kraft Foods).[5]

For its part, the old factory in Aguilar de Campoo, where the production of the brand began, was demolished by Siro in April 2014 in order to take advantage of the land on which it was located as developable land.[6]

  1. ^ a b c d "Annual Report 1997". Galletas Fontaneda, S.A. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ El País: La multinacional estadounidense Nabisco compra, a través de Marbú, Galletas Fontaneda - 12 August 1996
  3. ^ Rivera, Jorge (1996-08-12). "La multinacional estadounidense Nabisco compra, a través de Marbú, Galletas Fontaneda". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  4. ^ "Un amargo futuro para el pueblo de las galletas". abc (in Spanish). 2002-04-06. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  5. ^ "Fontaneda y Chiquilín cambian de manos | elmundo.es". www.elmundo.es. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  6. ^ "Fontaneda se desvanece". El Norte de Castilla (in European Spanish). 2014-04-12. Retrieved 2022-04-28.