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O.B. Macaroni Company 
Fort Worth Macaroni Company (prior to O.B. Macaroni)Industry Food Manufacturing Predecessor Fort Worth Macaroni Company Founded 1899 Founder(s) Louis Bicocchi and Giovanni Laneri Headquarters Fort Worth, Texas, United States Products Pasta Website Company Website 
Q & Q brand vermicelli (fideo) made by O.B. Macaroni
O.B. Macaroni Co., is a privately owned pasta company located in Fort Worth, Texas. O.B. stands for "Our Best." O.B. Macaroni Company started in 1899 and serves the greater Southwest. Four generations of the Laneri family have owned and managed the company.
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Organization
O.B. makes pasta shapes such as: spaghetti, vermicelli (fideo), linguini, fettucini, penne, mostaccioli, rigatoni, and rotini. O.B. also produces the Q & Q (Quality and Quantity) brand of vermicelli, popular with Mexican-Americans in Texas since 1960.
History
Italian immigrants Louis Bicocchi and Giovanni Laneri founded the Fort Worth Macaroni Company in January 1899 on South Jennings Avenue, with Laneri as president. Laneri came to Fort Worth in 1882, prospering in the grocery and liquor business. He was an early member of the Board of Trade and Director of Fort Worth National Bank in 1902. Due a contribution made by Giovanni Laneri to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, Laneri High School was established in 1921 as a Catholic school for boys. Laneri High School remained open until 1962, when its students were transferred to the new Nolan Catholic High School in east Fort Worth.[1] In 1905 the company incorporated and moved to its present location at what was then the intersection of Daggett and Vickery. The building, a converted carriage house, was enlarged and modernized over the years. The Fort Worth Macaroni Company shipped pasta products all over the greater Southwest from its railroad siding. In 1935 Giovanni Laneri died and his nephew Louis took over management of the company. Four generations of the Laneri family have operated the business.
On January 15, 1999, O.B. celebrated 100 years of operations and the City of Fort Worth proclaimed it was "O.B. Macaroni Day."
In 2009, O.B. Macaroni was acquired by JGR Enterprises LLC, a locally owned Ft. Worth-based company.
Company President, Carlo Laneri, was cited in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article regarding rising flour prices.[2]
The company is known for its fideo, a pasta similar to vermicelli used in Tex-Mex cuisine.[3]
Notes and references
- ^ Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth – Money Grows on Tree at Cassata
- ^ SHLACHTER, BARRY (May 3, 2008). "Rising flour prices pinch pasta maker". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/620600.html. Retrieved 2008-05-08.[dead link]
- ^ Associated Press (March 23, 2005). "Mexican border fideo fans love their Tex-Mex pasta, any style". The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/032305/lif_032305043.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
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Categories:- Companies based in Fort Worth, Texas
- Companies established in 1899
- Food production companies of the United States
- Manufacturing companies based in Texas
- Pasta companies
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