Aldento

Name

Aldento

Legal name

Les Pâtes des Frangines

Website

https://goffardsisters.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Artisanal Pasta / Specialty Food Products

NAICS

Cookie, Cracker, and Pasta Manufacturing (31182), Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing (3118)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Pasta Manufacturing (dry, fresh, filled) (AFAKABAB)

Keywords

• Artisan pasta production
• Organic food products
• Insect flour pasta
• Specialty dry pasta
• Custom pasta manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Alleur

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Artisanal Pasta Product Sales: Sale of three product lines: Les Traditionnelles (traditional egg and grain pasta), Les Irrésistibles (flavored pasta with natural ingredients), and Les Sensationnelles - Aldento (insect-based high-protein pasta)
2. Custom Manufacturing Services: Bespoke artisanal pasta manufacturing service where customers can request custom pasta production according to their specific ideas, desires, and requirements

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Les Pâtes des Frangines produces and sells handcrafted artisanal pasta made from local, organic, bio-certified raw materials under three product lines: Les Traditionnelles (traditional egg and grain pasta), Les Irrésistibles (flavored pasta), and Les Sensationnelles - Aldento (innovative high-protein, low-carb pasta enriched with mealworm or cricket flour). The company also offers custom artisanal pasta manufacturing services for businesses seeking bespoke recipes.

Product overview

Aldento operates as a Belgian artisanal pasta company offering three distinct product lines: Les Traditionnelles (traditional egg and grain-based pastas), Les Irrésistibles (flavored varieties with natural ingredients), and Les Sensationnelles - Aldento (high-protein, low-carb insect-flour based pastas). The company also provides custom manufacturing services for bespoke pasta production. All products emphasize local, organic, and artisanal quality.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Aldento: Insect flour-based pasta line enriched with tenebrion or cricket flour, offering high protein and low carbohydrate content for complete, balanced, and environmentally-friendly meals.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Barilla: Global pasta market leader with vast retail distribution and brand power. Defines the mainstream competitive context any artisan pasta maker — including Aldento — must outperform on differentiation, premium positioning or sustainability story.
• De Cecco: Premium Italian pasta brand with strong European retail presence. Comparable as the type of premium incumbent Aldento competes with on shelf, particularly for organic/premium-tier pasta buyers.
• Delverde: Italian premium pasta maker with strong provenance story (Abruzzo, bronze die, slow drying). Comparable as an example of a heritage/premium pasta brand Aldento could be benchmarked against in retail negotiations.

Emerging players

• Hoppy Food: Belgian producer of insect-based food products (cricket flour, insect snacks). Closely comparable Belgian/European peer operating in the same novel-food regulatory environment and consumer market as Aldento.
• Aspire Food Group: North-American-based cricket and mealworm producer with a consumer brand in insect protein foods. Comparable as a vertically integrated insect-food operator pursuing mainstream retail distribution.
• Ÿnsect: French industrial insect-protein producer (mealworm) supplying ingredients to food and pet-food manufacturers. Relevant as an upstream supplier/competitor shaping the European insect-protein supply chain Aldento depends on.
• Entomo Farms: Canadian cricket-protein producer supplying food manufacturers and consumer brands. Relevant as both a potential ingredient partner and a competitor commercializing insect protein to mainstream consumers.

Direct peers

• Jimini's: French insect-based food brand selling snack and meal products containing mealworms, crickets and grasshoppers. Closely comparable European peer in alt-protein insect foods, addressing similar sustainability-and-protein-conscious consumers.
• Bugsolutely: Thailand-based food company that pioneered cricket-based pasta and noodles sold internationally. Direct overlap with Aldento's Sensationnelles line in both product format (pasta/noodles) and insect-protein positioning.

Regional players

• Al Dente Pasta Company: US-based artisan fresh pasta maker selling specialty and flavored pasta lines to consumers and food service. Comparable in business model (artisan, multi-line, D2C plus foodservice) though operating in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Aldento_Sisters
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lespatesdesfrangines

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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