# Lacasa

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{{Short description|Spanish confectionery company}}
{{More citations needed|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Lacasa
| logo = 
| logo_size = 200px
| type = 
| foundation =  1852
| location = [Zaragoza](/source/Zaragoza), [Spain](/source/Spain)
| key_people = {{Plainlist|
* José Lacasa Piens <small>([Chairman](/source/Chairman))</small>
}}
| num_employees = 
| industry   = [Confectionery](/source/Confectionery)
| products   = Chocolates Lacasa, Comercial Chocolates Lacasa, Bombonera Vallisoletana, Productos Mauri, Chocolates Del Norte, lacasavital
| revenue    = 
| net_income = 
| assets     = 
| parent     = 
| homepage   = [http://www.lacasa.es/ www.lacasa.es]
| image      = Lacasitos a mogollón.JPG
}}

'''Lacasa S.A.''' is a Spanish [confectionery](/source/confectionery) company, headquartered in [Zaragoza](/source/Zaragoza).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Molina |first1=Marta |title=Los Lacasitos cumplen 25 años |url=https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2008/02/06/empresas/1202308820_850215.html |work=[Cinco Días](/source/Cinco_D%C3%ADas) |date=6 February 2008 |language=es}}</ref> The group includes Chocolates Lacasa, Comercial Chocolates Lacasa, Bombonera Vallisoletana, Productos Mauri, Chocolates Del Norte, lacasavital, and has marketing offices or factories in places such as Argentina, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, and the United States.

==History==
It is the oldest chocolate-producing factory in Spain,{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} founded in the middle of the nineteenth century by José Lacasa Piens in [Jaca](/source/Jaca),<ref>{{cite news |last1=García |first1=Chus |title=Dulce Navidad con 170 años de historia |url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/economia/2022/12/24/chocolates-lacasa-dulce-navidad-con-170-anos-historia-1620367.html |work=[Heraldo de Aragón](/source/Heraldo_de_Arag%C3%B3n) |date=24 December 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221225092544/https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/economia/2022/12/24/chocolates-lacasa-dulce-navidad-con-170-anos-historia-1620367.html |archive-date=25 December 2022 |language=es |url-status=live}}</ref> a small town in the foothills of the [Pyrenees](/source/Pyrenees). Now based in Zaragoza, Lacasa S.A. has grown steadily, and became one of Europe's leading confectioners, and also one of the first to have received the [ISO 9002](/source/ISO_9002) Quality Certification.

The new business policy of consolidation in the market started in that decade, went through the expansion of its factory in Utebo in 1991, followed by the acquisition of different companies in the sector, such as Productos Mauri, S.A. (Barcelona), Bombonera Vallisoletana (Valladolid), Chocolates del Norte (Oviedo).{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

In May 1998, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Loyola de Palacio, awarded the Order of Agrarian, Fisheries and Food Merit (Food Merit section) to Carmen Echeverría for her effort in directing Lacasa.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.lacasa.es/ Lacasa, chocolateros desde 1852] (Official website)

Category:Spanish chocolate companies
Category:Companies established in 1852
Category:1852 establishments in Spain
Category:Companies based in Aragon
Category:Spanish brands
Category:Zaragoza

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