Cusmai - Andria 1925

The family business

We believe that remaining authentic, tied to origins, gives what we do a broader meaning. And to our products a fairer and more sincere, clean flavor.

Strong roots, strong ambitions

When in 1925 his great-grandfather Salvatore purchased a farmhouse of beginnings ‘800 and the surrounding land, in the Croce district of Cerignola, he probably did not imagine that it would inspire the birth of a company which today, many years later, is able to produce around fifty tons of extra virgin olive oil and almost three hundred thousand jars of preserved tomatoes and oil, every year!

Formerly an ancient olive oil mill powered by a steam locomotive, today Cusmai 1925 is a Apulian company that owns olive groves –in the Cerignola and Andria countryside– and a cannery where it processes and processes fresh vegetables. A company that enriches its offering of new products and recipes year after year and maintains artisanal production attentive to biodiversity in the field and environmental and social sustainability.
Bells and golden apples

Our ambition is to tell, through work and our productions, the traditions of our family to transmit them intact to our customers near and far, without changing what we have been and what we are.

It all started in an olive grove, whose olives, great-grandfather Salvatore, loved to call golden bells. And what music when the mistral blows and cools from the north or the sirocco dries and reddens beyond the collar, right down to the roots. The olive grove is home to three cultivars with a strong Apulian tradition: Coratina, Ogliarola, and Peranzana. Our plants thanks to the family experience and the new knowledge of Nicola – member of the National Organization of Olive Oil Tasters – give life to an exceptional extra virgin olive oil. Today also organic.

And even today, thanks to Grandma Grazia's right intuition, we have opened ourselves to vegetables, processed from the fresh in our cannery, where we create tomato and oil preserves following traditional recipes, modified and refined over time. Thanks to Puglia and its farmers, we only have to choose from a huge variety of vegetables, from tomatoes to aubergines to artichokes, lampascioni and peppers, table olives and mushrooms that we store in our extra virgin oil. Traditions, in fact, must not only be preserved but above all spread and shared.

Organic and Slow Food

The new organic line marks a new shift towards even more sustainable agriculture. Strengthened by integrated agriculture, the Slow Food guide has been admitting our products for years because it finds ours respectful of its principles. Good, clean and fair are a summary that tells with respect, completeness and humility also us and our products.

It is to the land, to Apulia (a grace received), that we owe everything. Respecting it means the future.