La Linea Verde: a growing 2025, with an increasingly international drive

La Linea Verde announces that it has consolidated its position among the leading European players in fresh IV range and ready-to-eat food, closing 2025 with a turnover of 400 million euros, up on the previous financial year.

The Group’s scale is also evident from its presence in the market: during the year, more than 400 million packs were marketed across different categories, channels and markets.

The economic results for 2025

The Group’s EBITDA shows a positive trend, reaching 34,7 million euros, further up on the previous year, while total profit reaches 12,6 million euros. With net equity of 80 million euros and a net financial position of 23,3 million euros, La Linea Verde has solid foundations on which to support its growth path. In this context, the significant acceleration in investments, which in 2025 reached 17,6 million euros, up 41,8% on 2024, is intended to support the Group’s industrial, technological and international development.

It is on these foundations that La Linea Verde is continuing its development, strengthening its industrial capacity, automation and process digitalisation, product research and innovation, and expanding its presence in foreign markets.

“The results for 2025 confirm the Group’s economic and financial solidity and, above all, its ability to continue investing with a medium- to long-term perspective,” comments Franco Polotti, 0Chairman of the Board of Directors of La Linea Verde. “The significant increase in investment and the strengthening of net equity demonstrate a clear choice: to continue supporting the Group’s industrial and international development while maintaining a strong financial balance. It is on this balance between growth, innovation and solidity that we want to build the next phase of our journey.”

“For us, growth does not simply mean increasing volumes, but continuing to invest in skills, technology, products and markets,” adds Domenico Battagliola, ceo of the La Linea Verde Group. “We are building an increasingly international Group while retaining what has always characterised us: deep knowledge of the raw material and the ability to listen to customers and consumers, transforming this heritage into innovation. Our goal is to bring this experience to different markets, adapting it to local characteristics without losing the Dna that has brought us this far.”

Sustainability at the heart of the growth model

Industrial development is progressing alongside the strengthening of the supply chain and environmental and social commitments. In 2025, La Linea Verde voluntarily chose to prepare its Sustainability Report in accordance with the European Esrs standards and obtained social responsibility certification SA8000 for the Manerbio production site.

Along these lines, La Linea Verde is building the next phase of its development: bringing together the expertise it has acquired in fresh produce and the agricultural supply chain in order to grow in new markets, broaden the scope of its offering and develop increasingly advanced production models, while maintaining quality, innovation and knowledge of the consumer as distinctive elements of its model.

Internationalisation drives development

Today, approximately 50% of the Group’s turnover is generated in foreign markets, confirming an international vocation that in recent years has translated into a gradual strengthening of its industrial and commercial presence in Europe and North America.

2025 marked an important step in North American development. In Canada a production model was launched through a local co-packer, accompanied by the introduction of fresh ready meals under the DimmidiSì brand, while in the United States, the corporate and industrial foundations were laid for the Group’s subsequent development.

In North Baltimore, Ohio, a new facility of almost 10.000 sq m is currently under construction. It will produce soups and fresh meals, with an investment of approximately 15 million euros and production scheduled to begin at the start of 2027.

The choice of Ohio reflects a precise industrial rationale: proximity to raw materials, a strategic location in relation to the main consumption centres, and the opportunity to develop a local supply chain. The model does not involve simply replicating the Italian offering, but transferring the Group’s know-how in fresh produce while adapting recipes, formats and products to the characteristics of the North American consumer.

The international development work carried out during 2025 also laid the foundations for the acquisition operations completed in the early months of 2026 in Belgium and France.

From IV range to ready-to-eat

Geographical growth is accompanied by a gradual expansion of the market scope. La Linea Verde maintains its leadership in the IV range, but in recent years it has developed an even more varied offering of soups, ready-made fresh meals, enriched salads, fresh drinks and high-service-content solutions. This transformation stems from observing new consumption behaviours: convenience and speed remain central, but are increasingly associated with the pursuit of taste, freshness, variety and quality.

In this context, the evolution of the DimmidiSì brand is taking place. In 2026, it celebrates its first 20 years and continues to expand its brand territory, entering an increasing number of fresh produce categories. This process is also supported by increasingly multichannel communication and accompanied by brand awareness which in May 2025 reached 86%, up on the previous two-year period (source: NIQ).

Investment and technology

Strong investment growth is primarily directed towards industrial development. In 2025, La Linea Verde continued its process automation and digitalisation programme, with the aim of improving quality, production efficiency and planning capacity, while reducing waste and resource use.

In the IV range, new automatic dosing lines have been introduced for semi-finished products intended for enriched salad bowls; control systems have been strengthened through optical sorting technologies, and end-of-line automation has been completed with robots and vision systems for checking the finished product.

This process also includes the completion of Fast Farm to Fork, the technological and industrial development plan launched in 2021 to integrate Agriculture 4.0 and Industry 4.0 and make the journey of the raw material from field to finished product more efficient and controlled. Results achieved include a reduction of 18% in water consumption and an increase of 58% in self-generated energy.

The approach is gradually being extended to the other production divisions as well, through analysis and redesign of workflows aimed at improving efficiency, logistical safety and production capacity.

The use of artificial intelligence in volume forecasting also continues through Fresh4Cast – developed to anticipate demand more accurately, optimise production planning and help reduce waste – and the partnership with Thimus, which takes the form of a neuroscientific approach to data analysis for developing new products.

This article was translated from the original Italian version with the assistance of artificial intelligence. In case of discrepancies, please refer to the original Italian version.