Panettone made in Italy – Vergani

It all began in 1944, at a small confectionary shop in Milan.
Thanks to their quality and delicious flavour, in just a short time the panettone made by the young Angelo Vergani, pastry cook by passion, managed to conquer the heart, and taste buds, of Milan’s residents, their fame quickly spreading outside the city borders.
The history of Panettone Vergani is the history of a family that, for over seventy years, has been safeguarding and handing down an ancient tradition from one generation to the next, all this time making Milan’s sweet par excellance with craftsmanship, even on an industrial scale.
The confectionary workshop located in Via Oristano (a few hundred metres from where the first pastry shop was opened), produces approximately 600,000 panettone a year, each one made according to the same recipe and using the mother yeast that was started by the great-grandfather Angelo.
To keep up with the times, in recent years Vergani’s creations have introduced high-quality ingredients, thus breathing life into an excellent product that is suited to modern taste.
By adopting the concept “Panettone all year long”, the Verganis were the first to open in Milan a veritable “Boutique of the Panettone”, thus offering Milan’s residents and tourists alike the chance to enjoy and purchase, every day of the year, the sweet symbol of Milan, encouraging its change into an all-season product.
Vergani is a well-established brand abroad as well: in fact, the real “Made in Milan” Panettone can also be found in England, Ireland, Byelorussia, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Australia and China, thus contributing to further spread Milan’s fame all over the world through one of its excellent products.
In 2014, the year Vergani celebrated its seventieth anniversary, Milan’s Mayor awarded the “famiglia del Panetùn” (in the Milanese dialect, the Panettone’s family) with the “Ambrogino d’Oro”, a civic merit award that the City of Milan presents to individuals and companies that have stood out for their effort and commitment.
So, for the past four generations the Panettone Vergani have been synonymous with quality, offering a unique taste to the most famous Christmas sweet.