The Group - History
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History
The latest evolutions
From company to structured, integrated “system of companies”
2026
Cereal Docks acquires a 70% stake in Quality Corn Group, a Spanish group and a European leader in corn processing for the food industry. Through this transaction, Cereal Docks strengthens its production and commercial platform dedicated to corn, a strategic gluten-free cereal. The company specializes in corn selection, storage, and milling, offering a broad product portfolio that includes pre-cooked, raw, and nixtamalized corn flours for the bakery, snack, and brewing markets, popcorn kernels, as well as toasted corn for crunchy snacks and specific varieties for tortillas, nachos, and Tex-Mex products.
2025
At Porto Marghera, the new underground pipeline connecting the production plant on Via Banchina Molini directly to the coastal storage facility on Via Righi becomes operational. The 3.1 km-long infrastructure eliminates more than 10,000 road transports per year, reducing CO₂ emissions by approximately 28 tonnes annually. The project significantly improves the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of the Group’s logistics at the Port of Venice’s main agro-industrial hub, strengthening its strategic role for agri-food supply chains.
2025
Cereal Docks announces the acquisition of Prista Commerce, a Bulgarian company active in sunflower seed processing. The transaction strengthens the Group’s international presence and forms part of the 2025–2027 Industrial Plan, aimed at expanding the range of ingredients for the food industry and supporting growth in international markets. Prista Commerce operates a plant in Ruse, in the Danube Plain, and specializes in the processing of dehulled sunflower seeds for the production of protein flours and hulled sunflower seeds for a wide range of food applications.
2025
Cereal Docks inaugurates a new district heating plant in Camisano Vicentino, powered by a high-efficiency thermal plant integrated into the production facility. The 1.7 km network, with a capacity of 1.7 MW, supplies heat to public and community facilities in the area—including a nursing home, kindergarten, primary school, church, and the Casa del Sogno community—ensuring average tariff savings of around 30%. The project represents a concrete model of synergy between industry and the local community and reinforces the Group’s path toward energy self-sufficiency, sustainability, and public benefit.
2024
Cereal Docks launches the institutional campaign “Gli Ingredienti” to celebrate the company’s first 40 years. The campaign highlights what lies “behind” many food and pet food products: care, safety, quality, sustainability, and guaranteed traceability, all stemming from strong relationships with the agricultural world, the expertise of Cereal Docks agronomists, and other key players in the supply chain. Cereal Docks is, in fact, the safe and traceable ingredient behind many of the products we consume every day.
2023
The Cereal Docks Group celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2023 with three special events dedicated to colleagues, customers, and institutions to commemorate this significant milestone and reflect on the upcoming challenges facing the Italian agri-food system. The three-day event, titled “The Ingredients that Fuel Our Future,” was held in the beautiful setting of the H-Farm Campus, a unique space for sharing and collaboration among students, professionals, and entrepreneurs, and particularly a hub for nurturing young talent.
2023
2022
Cereal Docks acquires 100% of Ital Green Oil, a company based in San Pietro di Morubio (Verona) operating in the primary processing of oilseeds, particularly soybeans, for the production of protein meals for animal feed, vegetable oils and lecithins for the food sector. The transaction strengthens the Group’s core business in plant protein processing, reinforcing the security and continuity of the agrifood supply chain while creating new industrial and market synergies across the value chain.
2022
Grey Silo Ventures is established as the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Cereal Docks Group, with an international focus on investments in foodtech and agritech startups. Its name recalls the first production silo built by founder Mauro Fanin, symbolising the Group’s entrepreneurial roots. Grey Silo Ventures invests in areas such as enabling ingredients for non-animal-based foods, new fermentation technologies, cellular agriculture and agritech solutions, with the aim of supporting a new generation of functional ingredients and more sustainable production processes for the agrifood sector.
2021
Cereal Docks Group becomes a purpose-driven company, turning into a Benefit Corporation. The new brand identity is presented as is the rebranding of two business units: Aethera Biotech (formerly Dembitoech) and Nateeo (formerly Cereal Docks Food).
Acquisition of the Cereal Docks Organic facility of Roverchiara (VR) is completed and the new logistic hub in via dell’Innovazione in Camisano Vicentino becomes operational.
New horizons
We are the ingredient that starts the change
2020
In the pandemic year, the Group consolidates its leadership in the processing of oily seeds, cereal trading, and in the market of high added value ingredients.
2019
Cereal Docks Spa purchases an industrial area in Summaga di Portogruaro, strengthening the role of Portogruaro as a strategic, Group logistics hub.
Mantegna Academy, the Group’s business school, launches the Carta Bianca (art in the company) project and the Campus project for students doing their Master’s thesis in the company.
Cereal Docks Organic starts managing the Roverchiara (Verona) facility, using it to produce oil and organic oil-cakes, textured vegetable protein and micronised flours for food.
From Company to Group
The Group role emerges in the community and market due to its characteristics
2018
35th anniversary: the new headquarters of the Cereal Docks Group is inaugurated in via dell’Innovazione in Camisano Vicentino and Cereal Docks Group Lab becomes operational. Cereal Docks is an industrial partner, with Amadori and Finiper Group, of FoodForward, an acceleration program for innovative projects and start-ups in the food and retail sectors, coordinated by Deloitte.
2017
Diversification
Strengthening growth by expanding the offer and new business opportunities
2016
2013
2012
2011
The link and consolidation with the farming world
The roots in farming, the industrial vision: from stockers to processors
2007
2002
2000
The Nineties
1983
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