Our story
OUR HISTORY
Our commitment to protecting the territory
The Aceto family
The Aceto family has been working in the lemon growing and processing industry for five generations, specifically since 1825, when the closest ancestor, Salvatore Aceto, the forerunner of this true cult of the typical Amalfi lemon, began his own business as a producer and trader of this precious citrus fruit by purchasing a small plot of land. It all began here…
Quality certification and the Consortium, we are still protagonists
In the 1960s, other plots of land were purchased for the cultivation of lemons, among which the most important is the one located in the “Valle Dei Mulini” in Amalfi, capable of producing around 800 quintals of lemons per year, and from which the brand name derives. In the 1980s, Luigi Aceto founded the “Cooperativa Amalfitana Trasformazione Agrumi”, one of the very first companies to produce and market the Amalfi Coast I.G.P. lemon liqueur, and among other things the proponent of the I.G.P. itself (as per Ministerial Decree of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies of 20/03/2000 and EEC Regulation No. 1356/2001 of 04/07/2001) and a key player in the establishment of the Consortium for the Protection of the Amalfi Coast I.G.P. Lemon, an association initially chaired by Marco Aceto, a position he held until 2012, with a view to continuing the family tradition. Today and tomorrow, we believe in the territory
Since 2012, the Aceto family has created the current production and processing company for its products, AMALFI LEMON TRADING s.r.l. (which replaces C.A.T.A.). The company remains faithful to its origins by remaining constantly active in the promotion and protection of the territory and its main raw material, the lemon, promoting various activities related to this and offering visits (educational & experience tours) to the company and the cultivated areas, in addition to having established a Museo di Civiltà Contadina Arte e Mestieri, located in rooms adjacent to the processing laboratory, full of tools representative of the history of the rural world and local craftsmanship.
