- Francesco Cirio
Francesco Cirio (1836–1900) was an Italian businessman and the inventor of canned vegetables and meat. Fact|date=February 2007
He was born in
Nizza Monferrato , then part of theKingdom of Sardinia , to a very poor and illiterate family. When he was 14 years old he came to the capital of the kingdom, Turin. A few years later he invented canned vegetables and meat because he wanted to export food from thePiedmont . At the end of the year 1856, he created his own company in order to produce these canned vegetables and meat and obtained several prizes at the Universal Exhibition in Paris (1867). The company was transformed in 1885 into Societa Anonima di Esportazione Agricola Francesco Cirio in Turin. This company very soon opened subsidiaries inMilan ,Naples ,Belgrade ,Berlin ,Brussels ,London ,Paris , andVienna . For rest of his life, Cirio successfully worked at boosting the agricultural development of Southern Italy.External links
* [http://www.cirio.it Cirio.it - company website] it
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