In 1877 Pietro Barilla opened a bread and pasta shop in Parma. Soon, their First factory was built: 80 workers produce 8 tons of pasta and 2 tons of bread per day thanks to innovative “continuous baking” oven. Now come some decades in future, The group produces many kinds of pasta, and is the world’s leading pasta maker with 40–45% of the Italian market and 25% of the US market. It produces pasta in over 120 shapes and sizes.