Our history

The history of the olive oil develops parallely to that of the cultivation of the olive tree. The first indications of the presence of the olive tree on Spain's Mediterranean coast coincides with the Roman domain, though later the Arabs who promoted the olive groves, turning Spain into the first producing country of olive oil in the world. Undoubtedly, the inhabitant's need to have olive oil, as well as the difficulties of transporting this liquid gold in that epoch, making the local consumption even more important, helped to extend the plantation of olive trees.
 
Taking a large step in time, the olive oil industry entered into a crisis once the Spanish Civil War was over, mainly due to the interveening policy of the regime, and to be more specific, the excessive control on the production of the oil, damaging the Catalonian producers through the imposition of fixed selling prices that did not cover the cost of the workforce, milling and production of quality olive oil. Likewise, the pro-Franco politics prohibited the exportation of the oils to the international market, hence offering a competitive advantage to the Italian producers.
 
But it was in 1986, with the entry of Spain into the European Community (EU), together with the aids and subsidies for the production of olive oil, which stimulated the olive oil industry, allowing important technological renovations that would have a direct impact on the quality of the oils.