[1][2][4] Merged in 1968 with the family company of the same name to form the IBP-Industrie Buitoni Perugina group , it was involved in the crisis of the food sector of the seventies from which it emerged in 1985 with the sale to Carlo De Benedetti 's CIR group ; However, political maneuvers outside the group prevented the latter from consolidating its presence in the consumer food sector and, in 1988, IGP was sold to the Swiss multinational Nestlé which since 2008 has only held the Perugina brand, having sold Buitoni on that date .

Perugina's registered office has been in Milan since 1988 , but the production plants and the Chocolate School are located in Perugia.

The company was introduced to the United States at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, and since became known for producing fine chocolates.

[8] During Easter-time, a major product is chocolate Easter eggs wrapped in colorful aluminium paper.

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