Annual rank3
Italy · Consumer Non-Cyc.
NewPrinces
NewPrinces lists dairy, pasta, bakery, ready meals, canned foods, beverages, plant-based alternatives and baby-food products among its categories.
FY2022–FY2025
FY2022–FY2025
FY2022–FY2025
current context only
Company profile
Products, brands and footprint
NewPrinces is a vertically integrated food-and-beverage and retail group. It combines 33 production sites worldwide, more than 30 key brands and approximately 1,000 stores in Italy across categories ranging from pasta, canned fish and tomatoes to beverages, dairy and specialised nutrition. Its portfolio links historic consumer names with contract manufacturing, research, product development and distribution.
Products and services
A portfolio built around everyday food
Plants across the group make pasta, pulses and tomato preserves, canned fish and ready meals. The range also covers juices, soft drinks, spirits, dairy, bakery and infant nutrition; Napolina's recipe library shows how some of these products reach the kitchen.
- Pasta Formats, specialist nutrition options and production locations
- Beverages Juices, soft drinks, spirits and ready-to-drink products
- Canned food Fish, pulses, vegetables, meat, soups and ready meals
- Baby food Infant foods, formulas and specialised nutrition
- Cook with Napolina The brand's collection of Italian-inspired recipes
- ▶ VideoWatch: pesto casarecce with burrata Napolina's English-language 15-minute pasta recipe
Brands
Names with distinct market histories
Napolina brings pasta, tomatoes and oils to UK kitchens; Princes spans more than 350 food and drink products. Plasmon has specialised in infant nutrition since 1902 and operates a controlled raw-material programme launched in 1981. GS returned in August 2026 as the reference retail brand; Birkel and 3 Glocken add German pasta histories dating to 1874 and 1884.
- Napolina Italian cooking ingredients for the UK market
- Princes More than 350 food and drink products
- Plasmon Infant nutrition since 1902 and controlled raw-material sourcing
- Birkel German pasta brand founded in 1874
- 3 Glocken German pasta brand founded in 1884
- GS The historic name relaunched as NewPrinces' reference retail brand
Geography and footprint
Named businesses across six production countries
Princes Italia operates sites including Foggia, Eboli and Ozzano Taro; Princes Group is headquartered in Liverpool and Newlat in Mannheim. The network also reaches France, Poland and tuna operations in Mauritius.
- Explore all locations Operating companies, plants, offices and addresses by country
- Group overview Portfolio, production footprint and Italian retail network
- ▶ VideoWatch: inside the Ozzano Taro plant The plant director explains the site, with English subtitles
Operating model
From manufacturing to the end consumer
NewPrinces links Princes Italia's manufacturing, GS S.p.A.'s store network and specialist businesses such as Princes Ready to Drink and Plasmon. It serves branded retail, B2B contract manufacturing and Ho.Re.Ca., with co-development and R&D connecting product design to distribution.
- How the group works Manufacturing facilities, stores and integrated capabilities
- Operating companies Princes Italia, GS S.p.A., Plasmon, Newlat and other businesses
- Business model Branded retail, contract manufacturing and Ho.Re.Ca. channels
Official profile sources: NewPrinces | Home · Why invest in NewPrinces
Current 2026 update
What is changing at NewPrinces in 2026?
NewPrinces has moved beyond acquiring Carrefour Italia and Plasmon. Effective 1 August, the retail companies were legally reorganised into GS S.p.A. and GS was chosen as the reference retail brand; the store rollout will be gradual. NewPrinces says it aims to connect factories, food brands, logistics and distribution as one system.
The change in one sentence
GS gives the factory-to-shelf strategy its own consumer brand.
The strategic experiment is no longer only ownership of stores: NewPrinces is creating one retail identity intended to connect production, logistics, pricing and the daily relationship with shoppers.
Four lenses on 2026
The same four-quadrant format used in the Company profile.
01 · The retail identity
The Carrefour acquisition is being reorganised around GS
Effective 1 August, the previous GS S.p.A. and Princes Retail S.p.A. were incorporated into Princes Property S.p.A., which was renamed GS S.p.A. GS was chosen as the reference brand for NewPrinces' retail activities. The group plans gradual renovation and modernisation across formats; the Italian network has approximately 1,000 stores, including approximately 750 franchises, plus online grocery services.
- Current signalGS brand · approximately 1,000 stores · approximately 750 franchised
- Why it mattersA group-controlled retail identity can make pricing, assortment and store renewal visible to shoppers, but a rename alone does not prove customer adoption.
- GS relaunch NewPrinces · 2026-08-04
02 · Specialist brands
Brand ownership now sits beside a production platform acquired in 2015
The Plasmon transaction brought Plasmon, Nipiol, BiAglut, Aproten and Dieterba into NewPrinces. The deal closed on 31 December 2025 and entered the consolidation scope on 1 January 2026. NewPrinces says it completes a process begun with the 2015 acquisition of the Ozzano Taro production platform and brings historic production assets and specialist brands under common ownership; operating benefits still have to be demonstrated.
03 · The operating system
Retail is the largest channel inside a 33-site worldwide production group
Distribution represented 53.7% of first-quarter group revenue after Princes Retail entered the consolidation scope. Separately, the group's geographic revenue mix was 61.7% Italy and 28.5% UK. In August, NewPrinces described 33 production sites worldwide and said it aims to integrate production, logistics and retail. In its Q1 report, NewPrinces said the retail offer moved from price index 106 under Carrefour toward market parity at 100 while maintaining a margin above the combined pro-forma Q1 2025 comparator.
- Current signalDistribution 53.7% of group revenue · 33 sites worldwide
- Why it mattersThe strategic question becomes operational: can a multinational manufacturing footprint improve what GS stores stock, price and deliver?
- Q1 report NewPrinces · 2026-06-01
- GS relaunch NewPrinces · 2026-08-04
04 · What to watch
Three questions for the next disclosures
Three tests distinguish an integrated consumer platform from a collection of acquired assets.
- The GS rolloutHow many stores and formats adopt the GS identity over the gradual rollout, and what changes in store design, online grocery and the franchise network?
- Price and volumeDoes the move toward market-price parity attract more shoppers and volume while preserving the margin improvement NewPrinces reported against its combined pro-forma Q1 2025 comparator?
- Factory-to-shelf evidenceDo logistics, assortment, availability or new Plasmon products provide measurable evidence for NewPrinces' stated aim of connecting 33 production sites worldwide with the Italian retail network?
Annual record
Ranking history
Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.
| Edition | Measurement period | Rank | Revenue growth | Net-income growth | Stock return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | FY2022–FY2025 | 3 | +299% | +5928% | +346% |