THE GROUP

The Casillo Group is a world leading food company in the processing and distribution of durum wheat, and one of the major players in the soft wheat market.

Over the course of our history, our activities have grown and diversified: from trading cereals to logistics, from the development of training projects and systems for generating renewable energy to the production and marketing of our Molino Casillo branded products and the development of real estate projects.

Born in Corato in June 1969. Chairman and CEO of the Casillo group holding, as well as director of several group companies. In particular, he is chairman of the real estate sub-holding of the Gong Capital SpA group. He is currently chairman of Banca del Mezzogiorno and has been a director of local financial institutions. A lover of all management disciplines and passionate about digital technologies, he believes that knowledge, discipline and respect for the rules, together with creativity, humility and passion, are the key to being consistent and authoritative in dealing with competition today.

Chairman and CEO of Casillo SpA SB, the group’s largest operating companies. Born in Corato on 27 April 1966 he began to support his father Vincenzo in managing the family businesses even before reaching adulthood. His father's teachings, together with an MBA from Spegea in Bari in 1986, allowed him to take on responsible corporate roles from a very young age. In the early nineties he founded the cereal trading company, now the leading Italian company in the field and among the main ones in Europe, which has allowed satisfactory synergies to be achieved with the family’s historic milling business. Since the 2000s, particularly in view of his father’s poor health, he has guided the strategic decisions made by the company which have turned into a large food company and a benchmark for the nation. Married to Isabella since 1995, he is father to Vincenzo and Francesca. He has always been a sport-lover. He has practised football, swimming and is currently a passionate cyclist. The sporting values of sacrifice, suffering, perseverance, rigour, resilience, loyalty, team play, respect for the opponent, generosity and a sense of challenge are also the basis of his work.

Agriculture, agri-food, the development of new commercial channels, local pride and environmental protection are the great passions that underpin Mimmo Casillo's career. Having witnessed a generational transition with his brothers, he has fulfilled his father's desire to have children who would continue and expand his entrepreneurial undertaking. As vice president of Casillo SpA SB he provides young professionals with constructive examples and a constant entrepreneurial stimulus. Through constant contact with suppliers and customers, his goal is to promote agri-food chains that fulfil the needs of all the parties involved actors and provide the end customer with healthy and highly valued products.

Founded in 1958 by Vincenzo Casillo, thanks to our core values and the experience gained in facing successive challenges, our has become an industrial organisation of great excellence, an international business that has never stopped evolving, despite the results achieved. Because we have learned from nature that after each harvest there are new crops to sow.

It is by respecting and enhancing wheat, the basic ingredient of the Mediterranean food culture, that we realize our dream to make the world a better place to live. We are convinced that a good and healthy diet is the starting point for everyone’s development and growth. We therefore work with care and dedication to make sure the quality of raw materials, a passion for innovation and a determined focus on sustainability issues guide all our decisions. We work with transparency, dynamism and flexibility to actively contribute to enhancing the Italian agri-food heritage. Building on our traditions and with the tenacity typical of the people of our land, we look to the future with a proactive and responsible spirit, striving every day to offer quality lovers the best fruits of our work.