Alicorp is the largest Peruvian consumer goods company, with operations in South America.
The company now known as Alicorp was started in 1956 as Industrias Teodoro Aldude and Anderson, Clayton & Co. as an oil and soap manufacturer in the port of Callao, Peru.
In 1995, it acquired La Fabril S.A., the largest food manufacturer in Peru from Grupo Bunge y Born from Argentina.
CFP merged with Nicolini Hermanos S.A. and Compañia Molinera del Peru S.A. in 1996, and changed its name to Alicorp in 1997.
[3]Alicorp plans to boost sales to US$2 billion by 2013 based on foreign acquisitions and export projections.