Who we are

Our story begins over 50 years ago, when a man came across a book. That man was Giovanni Randi, an entrepreneur from Faenza, always on the lookout for new prospects. At the end of the 1960s, an encounter with a book dating back to 1927 “L’Industria Tartarica” (“The Tartaric Industry”) marked the start of a new entrepreneurial adventure. Giovanni understood that his future was enshrined within those pages and decided to take a new approach to his passion. In the garage of his house, together with some factory workers, he began to produce tartaric acid and cream of tartar.

Giovanni Randi was set up: it was 1968.

What the company lacked in space and resources it made up for with its vision: to create quality natural products using the most diligent processing techniques and a relationship with customers based on respect and trust.

The company grew quickly and moved from that small garage to Via Spallanzani, which is still home to the Rand Group headquarters to this day.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the company evolved in terms of both volumes and staff, with an expansion that continued into the 1990s, in which companies were set up in Australia, California and Argentina, turning it into an international group. During the same years, it bought Villapana, in Faenza, and a stake in La Alcoholera de la Rioja, Spain, of which full ownership was acquired in 2021.

In 1993, after the death of Giovanni Randi, his four children all took on roles within the company, confirming its family-run ethos and strengthening its drive for innovation and investments from a sustainable viewpoint, including the installation of biomass boilers in Villapana and in Australia. The range of strictly natural products was expanded, with ever greater prominence given to the by-products of the wine industry.

50 years after its birth, the third generation of the family is now working in the company.

A lot has changed since 1968, but the ethos has remained the same: passion, integrity, responsibility, commitment, transparency, quality and research characterise the way the Randi Group does business. A focus on quality that embraces every aspect, from choosing the raw material to respecting safety- and hygiene-related standards to the letter, from stringent certification to timely management of every phase, from orders to delivery.

The Randi Group supports initiatives aimed at promoting culture: the publication of books about art or other subjects, support for selected artists. It supports associations with projects that demonstrate positive energy, credible professionalism and impartial social commitment. This is the Randi Group’s way of putting its Code of Ethics into practice.