TIBERINO since 1888
A FAMILY
STORY
"For us, it's not just a job. It's a tradition, a family passion, handed down from generation to generation."
Nicola Tiberino · 1906
TIBERINO since 1888
THERE'S AN ALLEY IN THE HEART OF BARI VECCHIA WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
Late 19th Century.
Nicola Tiberino hangs a sign outside a small shop in via Vallisa and puts his family name on it. He sells food specialties. He sells flavor.
Unbeknownst to him, he is selling a story that will last more than a century.
The Tiberino story spans the workshop, Europe, the first complete dishes, and even space, without losing its core philosophy: doing good things well.
THE WORKSHOP
Nicola has no great ambitions for conquest.
He is hands-on, has a keen nose, and the stubbornness of someone who knows that doing things well is the only path worth taking.
Then his sons, Raffaele and Tommaso, arrive, and the shop grows, expands, becoming a wholesale food business that starts to become known beyond the neighborhood's borders.
EUROPE
After the war, it was the turn of the third generation.
Nicola, the grandson, named after his grandfather, as per family tradition, takes the reins and looks beyond. Far away. He transforms everything into an import-export of Italian specialties and brings the taste of Puglia across Europe.
The Tiberino name begins to travel.
THE EARLY TIBERINE
1999. Raffaele, Nicola's son, is the fourth generation.
He had an idea that seemed simple but was far from it: what if a true Italian pasta dish, good, authentic, made with real ingredients, could be brought to any corner of the world in just a few minutes?
This is how Primi Tiberino was born: pasta, risottos, soups, couscous. No semi-finished products. No shortcuts.
Only natural ingredients and timeless expertise.
THE STARS
And then comes the moment no one expected.
Since 2007, Tiberino has been preparing meals for astronauts on joint international missions between NASA, ESA, and ASI. Food from a small Bari shop, established in 1888, reaches space. Among the stars, literally.
From that unique experience, Outfood was born: the first Italian line of dehydrated ready-to-eat meals for outdoor enthusiasts.
TODAY
FROM BARI
TO THE WORLD
From that alley in old Bari, Primi Tiberino are now found in the best gourmet stores in the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout Europe. But the philosophy has remained identical to that of the first day, when Nicola wrote something that is still true today:
