Worldchefs’ partner HUG FOOD SERVICE is celebrating a special anniversary: for the past 10 years, the Swiss Tartelettes manufacturer has been delighting customers both at home and abroad with butter Tartelettes from the ‘Filigrano Collection’. What started as an attempt to create the Tartelette with the thinnest wall has become a wide range of 35 different products, from sweet to savoury, from classic to unusual shapes and flavours. A variety as filigree as its name.
HUG’s success is rooted in decades of expertise. The company’s ‘Classic Line’ has been hugely popular since as far back as 1970. Such expertise, combined with state-of-the-art precision technology that is being developed constantly, laid the groundwork for the Filigrano Collection. Who could have anticipated just how significant the Tartelette business would become for HUG?
What was developed in the quiet village of Malters (LU) opened doors to the wider world. Today, HUG exports its Tartelettes to more than 30 countries. They are served in 4- and 5-star hotels, filled in artistic ways in Michelin-starred restaurants, enjoyed aboard airlines and cruise ships, and elegantly presented at countless events and in numerous bakeries. This high-quality semi-finished product enables professionals around the globe to unleash their culinary creativity.
Filigrano Tartelettes represent the finest art of Swiss baking. Their straight, remarkably thin walls and unmistakably buttery flavour make them unique. They are made exclusively from high-quality Swiss ingredients in one of Switzerland’s most modern baking facilities. A delicate, flavourless coating on the inside of the Tartelettes ensures they keep their form for a long time. Once filled, they remain crisp and retain their shape, for maximum planning reliability in day-to-day operations. A reliability valued by restaurateurs and top chefs worldwide.
In response to changing dietary habits, the range has evolved continuously. Whilst butter Tartelettes remain at the heart of the Filigrano range, the Filigrano Collection now also includes three vegan alternatives, which enable restaurateurs to offer their vegan guests a suitable choice of dishes.
HUG proudly looks back on 10 years of Filigrano Tartelettes: today, they are used in professional kitchens around the world as a premium food solution meeting the very highest standards.
For more information and further enquiries:
HUG AG
Pascal Steiner
Head of Marketing Food Service
Neumühlestrasse 4
6102 Malters / Luzern
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About HUG
HUG AG employs some 430 people at its sites in Malters and Willisau. Founded in 1877 as a bakery in Lucerne, HUG is still a family firm, five generations later. “We really put our hearts into preparing your everyday moments of pleasure,” say Anna Hug and Marianne Wüthrich Gross, who run the company jointly on the following three principles: humanity, entrepreneurship and care. Through its four brands – HUG, Wernli, DAR-VIDA and HUG Food Service – the company offers a wide range of products: from traditional Swiss biscuits such as Zwieback original, to Wernli specialities like Choco Petit Beurre and DAR-VIDA crackers. In addition to retail products, HUG also offers a full range of high-quality bakery products such as HUG Tartelettes for the catering industry.
