{"id":573,"date":"2026-01-27T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/?page_id=573"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:34:32","slug":"tradition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The business tradition of the Fuganti family in Brazil began in 1890 with the founding of Casa Fuganti by Cesare Fuganti, an Italian immigrant, in S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o (Santa Maria\u2013RS).<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Painting: Houses of Santa Catarina, in Londrina. Reproduction of the oil painting by the visual artist Edgar Werner Osterroht \u2013 1936.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Above: Cesare Fuganti.
Left: Facade of the warehouse that housed the Fuganti Wholesale section since 1953.
Right: Fuganti Supermarkets and Utilar, in Maring\u00e1 \u2013 1966.
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Staff of Casas Fuganti, in Maring\u00e1 \u2013 December 1972.
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Initially focused on leather and footwear trading, the company expanded over subsequent decades, diversifying its portfolio and opening branches across Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil), following railway expansion and inland colonisation.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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With the entry of subsequent generations, the business underwent successive corporate restructurings, expanding into wholesale and retail trade, import and export, agribusiness and logistics.<\/p>

In 1934, the company partnered with the Fontana Group\u2014an association that later contributed to the creation of Sadia. Following the dissolution of the partnership in 1940, the Fuganti family consolidated its operations in Paran\u00e1 and S\u00e3o Paulo under Irm\u00e3os Fuganti S\/A.<\/strong><\/p>

Post-war, the group became one of the largest organisations in Northern Paran\u00e1, headquartered in Londrina, with diversified activities including farms, supermarkets, household goods retail (Plenolar), gas distribution (Plenog\u00e1s), and transport services (Rodobr\u00e1s).<\/p>

The family\u2019s arrival in Maring\u00e1 in 1953 marked significant milestones, including the opening of the city\u2019s first supermarket in 1966. The group also invested in industrial real estate, distribution centres, and social infrastructure, such as the Comendador J\u00falio Fuganti Stadium.<\/p>

From the 1970s onward, market changes and family reorganisations led to a gradual withdrawal from Maring\u00e1, culminating in the closure of operations in the late 1980s and the dissolution of J. Fuganti S\/A.<\/strong><\/p>

In summary, the Fuganti family\u2014whose roots trace back to Austria and Italy\u2014has been active in Brazil\u2019s import and export sector for over 200 years, consistently upholding transparency, integrity, and respect in business partnerships.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Tradition The business tradition of the Fuganti family in Brazil began in 1890 with the founding of Casa Fuganti by Cesare Fuganti, an Italian immigrant, in S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o (Santa Maria\u2013RS). Painting: Houses of Santa Catarina, in Londrina. Reproduction of the oil painting by the visual artist Edgar Werner Osterroht \u2013 1936. Above: Cesare Fuganti.Left: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-573","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuganticonsortium.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}