“Our pasta company is thrilled to be launching U.S. operations in Illinois starting later this year,” said Gian Luca Ranan CEO of Pastificio Rana. “We feel Illinois and the Chicago region provide us a great location to recruit employees, and to market our products and deliver them to our customers across the United States.” 

Pastificio Rana was started in 1962 when Giovanni Rana began making tortellini in San Giovanni Lupatoto, Italy. In 1971, the company outgrew its original space and moved to a larger facility that is still occupied today. Rana, headquartered in Verona, Italy, now has five plants in Europe, including four in Italy and one in Belgium. The company employees over 1,000 people and has seven subsidiaries located in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and now the United States. 

“Pastificio Rana is a family-owned company that started out in a small pasta ship in Italy almost 50 years ago,” said Governor Quinn. “When it decided to expand its operations to the U.S., it joined a number of companies to realize that with easy access to shipping and the best workforce in the nation, Illinois has all the tools a company needs to grow.” 

We are very much looking forward to Rana Meal Solutions joining our growing business community,” said Barlett Village President Michael Kelly. “Barlett is glad that Rana chose to locate here. Brewster Creek beat out proposals from Philadelphia and Scranton, Pennsylvania, and we are confident the company will find the business park to be an ideal fit for them.