history
A family story
/1960
THE TASTE FOR BUSINESS
This story begins many years ago with an ice cream in Germany, the country where Giovanni Fasano, the founder of VPF, emigrated as a child with his family.
Giovanni took his first steps as an entrepreneur Just with ice creams, opening an ice cream parlour.
1982/
MARKET SLICES
Dynamic and visionary, in a few years Giovanni became the owner of 13 pizzerias. Germany is a beautiful place, but first the ice cream and later the pizza were signals reminding Giovanni of Italy; he was homesick and strongly missed his native country. So, at a certain point, he decided to return to San Vito dei Normanni. After all, your home is always your home.
/1990
HOMECOMING
When Giovanni returned to his native country, he started dealing with housing, founding a construction company, and merging his creativity and entrepreneurial spirit with the precision and scrupulousness he had learned from the Germans.
1998/
BUSINESS IN MOVEMENT
In 1998 VPF was born and the company’s core business shifted from traditional houses to prefabricated buildings, a real challenge that Giovanni launched to the market, considering the hostile Italian culture towards the sector.
/2005
FAMILY BUSINESS
Meanwhile, 3 children, Rossella, Laura and Roberto join the company and in 2005 VPF begins to focus on the tourism sector rather than on the private one. It is a success. The company grows a lot, becoming famous both in Italy and in many other places abroad, thanks also to its constant presence in the main trade fairs of the sector.
2010/
HOW TO DRINK A GLASS OF WATER
The latest addition to VPF services is the creation and delivery, turnkey, of bar modules. A solution that greatly simplifies the customer’s life because he can find a room complete with everything and ready for the first coffee to be served.
OGGI/
A FIXED DREAM
This story begins with an ice cream, do you remember?, and goes on with a dream: to take our made in Italy around, making as many people as possible discover a new way of going on holiday, immersed in nature, but surrounded by all the comforts of a hotel. A holiday that make you feel always “at home" even in the farthest place in the world.
