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LA SAN MARCO: ITALIAN ICON
OF TRADITIONAL ESPRESSO MACHINES
Groupe SEB, already a leader in the Professional
coffee segment with automatic coffee makers (WMF
and Shaerer) and filter machines (Wilbur Curtis), has
expanded its offering with the acquisition of La San Marco,
a specialist in traditional Italian espresso makers.
Based in Gradisca d’Isonzo, in northeastern Italy,
La San Marco is a century-old business specializing in
lever coffee machines and grinders. Like Groupe SEB, the
brand combines time-honored know-how, innovation and
iconic design. Its LEVA technology, one of the 21 patents
owned by the company, is a system providing full control
of the speed at which the levers are raised to ensure that
the machines are absolutely safe to use.
With half its sales achieved abroad, Groupe SEB intends
to continue developing distribution of La San Marco
machines globally, especially to high-end establishments.
LA SAN MARCO AT A GLANCE:
90 employees
€19.7m in sales in 2022
Operations in more than
120 countries
PACOJET: TAKING POSITION
IN PROFESSIONAL KITCHENS
With Pacojet, a Swiss company
founded in 1992 that develops
and sells a range of professional
emulsifiers, Groupe SEB was
propelled into the world of
professional kitchens. Popular with
the world’s most talented chefs
for over three decades, Pacojet’s
revolutionary cooking appliances are
technological gems for making ice
creams sorbets sauces mousses
stuffings and purees in just 90
seconds
Pacojets expertise draws on unique
pioneering patented technology
pacotizing
the process of crushing
deepfrozen foods into ultrasmooth
textures while enhancing flavors Its
userfriendliness speed and quality
of execution and sustainable anti
waste technology have won over the
most talented chefs
Groupe SEB aims to raise the brands
profile throughout Europe in North
America and in Asia and has not
ruled out building synergies to
develop consumer products
PACOJET AT A GLANCE
30 employees
24m in sales in 2022
Operations in more than
60 countries