The planetary success of anchovies (and especially anchovies from the Cantabrian Sea) is pushing up the revenues and growth ambitions of Rizzoli Emanuelli, one of Italy’s leading specialists in anchovy fillets, with which it makes more than half of its revenues and in which it has invested heavily over the past decade. Helping to make them trendy and grow their market, which today is close to 123 million euros in mass market retail (source: IRI).

“We are coming from years of strong expansion, and 2022 is also proving to be positive despite the rebound effect after the pandemic, so much so that we have revised our budget forecasts upward,” Operations Manager Francesco Rizzoli tells Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.