The company was founded by Toni Hilti in 1935 as Scana Konservenfabrik AG and operates from its headquarters in Schaan, the most populous town of Liechtenstein.

They developed new product ideas due to the worlds changing eating habits, as a result of which the company was renamed HILCONA, derived from Hilti Convenience Nahrungsmittel.

As the first company in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Hilcona produced fresh pasta industrially from 1984 and therefore opened up a completely new market.

In addition, the company manufactured frozen meals for the food service sector and industrial needs and produced canned products for the Swiss market.

[7] The Zurich-based Eisberg Group, acquired by Bell on 1 April 2016, which produces lettuce with 400 employees in Switzerland and Eastern Europe and has a turnover of CHF 55 million, was organizationally attached to Gastro Star as an independent Hilcona subsidiary.

[8] In 2019, Bell AG announced that it intended to invest a total of CHF 120 million in several sectors in the Hilcona site in Schaan.

The Hilcona Taste Factory in Landquart has established itself above all as a vegetarian competence center (hummus, tofu) and as a specialist for regional hand-made specialties.

[18] The cooperation with the supplier was terminated immediately, prompting the conversion of all branded products to 100 percent Swiss beef.