He began working as subordinate in a bakery which supplied many shops in the surroundings, and in the confidence and relationship ability he learned to recognize the bond of warranty and continuity between the entrepreneur, the customer and the collaborators’ productiveness.

In 1961, when he was 21, he set up his own production and sale activity of tortellini and gnocchi at his family’s shop in Spino d’Adda.

In 1964, with a limited budget, he took over a small food company named Piuma d’Oro, in Via Milano, in Treviglio.

To save money he kept the equipment of the firm and the company’s name, which will be perfect to define the future products’ image. The company’s philosophy will always be to work out its own recipes from the tradition of taste and flavours, unchangingly balancing their fragrance and food quality, distinctive features of acknowledged success and fame.

In 1967 he married Misses Maria, who will later give him two sons, Federico and Fulvio.

The Piuma d’Oro products had a big success and the company began to develop buying new and more and more modern productive plants.

The unchanged quality of the home’s ancient recipes is preserved by the owner Fausto Pizzoccheri’s unvaried care, who introduced accurate changes in the productive equipment which was planned on purpose, the company’s property and warranty of the distinctive mark of the company’s products.

The company reinforced its leadership in the field through the production of the chiacchiere, typical regional celebration sweet, a speciality that Piuma d’Oro has been able to spread on both the whole national and international market.

The company has got so high a level of quality to have the supply prevailed by the demand, with the result of an accurate choice of customers.

Plans to introduce new products - so that to complete the annual productive cycle - have already been worked out by the administrative department, which now has the first son Federico’s operative contribution - who attends to it and to the Piuma d’Oro’s communication, image and development departments – and the second son Fulvio’s contribution, who organizes the production and the correct working of the very modern, automatic and computerized firm equipment.

Since its birth the Pizzoccheri’s entrepreneurial business has been distinguishing itself thanks to the fully respect of quality and the genuineness of the products and the transparency of the production services.

Rules that customers have always acknowledged. Faithful to its original principles, Piuma d’Oro – as a big company – is resolute in respecting the laws in force in the food field, which now have become the providers’ standard of selection, too. Satisfying the customers’ needs of information, taking care of the quality and the preservation of the products’ original taste are still some of the Piuma d’Oro’s aims and the reason for its uninterrupted development.

There are men who have success thanks to their factual works, men for whom work is an engagement through which they fully express their vigour, their ideas’ modernity, their common sense, the simple joy in encouraging enterprises. Pizzoccheri belongs to this group of active entrepreneurs. He belongs to a group of economic agents who work hard, face sacrifices and who, completely committing themselves, step by step succeed in offering an initiative which has conquered many costumers’ confidence, and for this reason he has felt spurred to do even better, really trying to satisfy every possible demand.