We have an incredible family history. A story which has been the subject of many a school show-and-tell projects over the years! We’ll spare you the long story but the highlights start in 1896 when our Great-Grandfather left his small home town of Setterone (high in the Appennini Mountains in North West Italy) with his two brothers, who all walked to England to find work and a better life.

They originally settled in St Helens and started manufacturing real Italian ice cream. People loved it and the business grew. They enjoyed their success and the brothers started their own families.

In 1936, our Grandfather Mattia Federici married his sweetheart, an Italian ice cream girl herself. Originally from the beautiful town of Vigiolo in Liguria, Italy, our Grandmother’s family, the Massas, had been making ice cream in Chorley, Lancashire since 1892.

This also marks the year they then started their own ice cream shop and factory at the Bolton Road site, this is where Tony (Mattia’s son) & Liz, his wife, and their children still make all the delicious ice cream to this day along with their grandchildren (5th generation) now working in the ice cream parlour!

Quality and luxury are our guiding principles. This drives our every decision. We continually look for new and innovative products and production methods, keeping us ahead of the game.

We manufacture the best quality luxury ice cream on the market. Our customers love our quick responses to requests for new flavours. And now with three high-spec Italian ice cream parlours, we retail our delicious products direct to customers.