Daniele, Inc.

Daniele, Inc., is an American maker of Italian style foods such as prosciutto, salame, pancetta, capocollo and sopressata.

The company was founded in Pascoag, Rhode Island, by Italian immigrant Vlado Dukcevich in 1976.

Owners Stefano Dukcevich and his wife, Carolina, left Croatia after World War II and settled in 1945 in Trieste, Italy, where they learned the process of curing charcuterie and started their own company.

[1][2] By the 1950s, Stefano and Carolina had built one of the larger salumerias in northeast Italy.

[5] In April 2020, 80 workers at the company's production facility in Burrillville, tested positive for coronavirus.