A. Zerega's Sons, Inc.

A. Zerega's Sons, Inc.

Industry	Food Manufacturing
Founded	1848; 177 years ago (1848)
Founder	Antoine Zerega
Headquarters	Fair Lawn, New Jersey , United States
Products	Pasta
Website	zerega.com

A. Zerega's Sons, Inc. was a privately owned pasta company with plants in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and Lee's Summit, Missouri. The company was founded by Antoine Zerega in Brooklyn, New York in 1848 making it the first pasta company in the United States.[1][2] Antoine's son Frank was a pasta maker for 83 years and served as the company's president. Both Zerega Avenue in the Bronx and the elevated train station on the New York City Subway's Pelham Line were named after Antoine.[3] The company moved from Brooklyn at 28 Front Street to Fair Lawn in 1952.[4][5]

In May 2020 it was announced that Zerega's was sold to fifth-generation family-owned Philadelphia Macaroni.[6]

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Notes

1. National Pasta Association. "Fun Facts About Pasta" Archived February 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, National Pasta Association website, 2009. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
2. Serventi, Silvano and Françoise Sabban. Pasta: the Story of a Universal Food (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 191.
3. The New York Times. "Frank L. Zerega", April 18, 1967, p. 41.
4. The New York Times. "Zerega Leaving Brooklyn: 101-Year-Old Macaroni Concern Plans Factory in Jersey", January 23, 1950, p. 38.
5. National Macaroni Manufacturers Association. "New Zerega Address", The Macaroni Journal, vol. XXXIII, no. 10 (Minneapolis, MN: February 1952), p. 28.
6. Philadelphia Macaroni Co. buys New York’s Zerega, combining two venerable names in Italian American pasta Retrieved May 5, 2020
7. "Google map of A. Zerega's Sons, Inc. headquarters in Fair Lawn, New Jersey".