Galletas Fontaneda

Fontaneda is a Spanish food sector company dedicated to the manufacture of crackers and biscuits (called "cookies" in North America). At its height, between 1950 and 1975, Fontaneda had yearly revenues of more than 10 billion pesetas. It was founded in the town of Aguilar de Campoo, Spain, by Eugenio Fontaneda in 1881. In 1996, the multinational Nabisco bought it for over 4.5 billion pesetas and in 2002, under the direction of United Biscuits, it closed its facilities, maintaining the trademark to manufacture it in other factories in Spain. The old Fontaneda factory in Aguilar de Campoo was acquired by Grupo Siro, which took over its staff and relaunched the activity in the town, which is considered "the biscuit town" of Spain. Since 2006, the Fontaneda brand has been marketed by the multinational Mondelēz International (former Kraft Foods). For its part, the old factory in Aguilar de Campoo, where the production of the brand began, was demolished by Siro in April 2014 in order to take advantage of the land on which it was located as developable land.