"Mill of Marudo in the heart of the Po valley, at the gates of Sant'angelo Lodigiano; Pietro Scotti was born there and in 1860 founded Riso Scotti. At the time it was a farm dedicated to collecting raw rice from the farmers in the area for which Mr. Scotti works with the cereal he sells to third parties. In 1890, his son Ercole Scotti moved to Villanterio on the Roggia Mulina, establishing the company's first headquarters on a total area of 1,200 square meters. Angelo and Gaetano Scotti. , they follow in their father's footsteps, they collaborate in the activity dealing with the transport of rice, they begin the development of the company from individual to de facto company. As a result of the productive changes brought about by technological innovation, the company is able to progressively increase the processing and transformation of rice and, as an artisan it was, it soon became an industrial structure.
