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Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
company based in South Tyrol
South Tyrol
South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...
. It was founded in 1926 as a family company by Alfons Loacker.
Loacker has production facilities in Bolzano, Ritten
Ritten
Ritten is a comune in South Tyrol in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.-Territory:The 111 km² community is named after the high plateau , the Ritten or the Renon, on which most of the villages are located...
and Heinfels
Heinfels
Heinfels is a municipality in the district of Lienz in Tyrol in Austria....
(Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
). It is known for its confections, particularly for its Quadratini
Quadratini
Quadratini is an Italian brand of cube wafer biscuits, with layered sheets owned by the company Loacker, a business founded in 1926 in South Tyrol, Italy by Alfons Loacker.- Production :Quadratini was introduced as a commercial product in 1994. A...
, thin cubes composed of wafers
Wafer (cooking)
In cooking, a wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's...
layered with sheets of creme. Its products are sold across the globe.