‘Business Report’: Fresina’s bringing pastas and more to local groceries

Since the start of the year, Fresina’s Italian Specialties co-owners Robert D’Agostino and Daniel Thompson have made a concerted push to get the Baton Rouge company’s line of handmade pastas and sauces onto the shelves of local grocery stores. The effort is paying off.

Formerly available exclusively at the Fresina’s store in the recently renamed Drusilla Village Shopping Center—where the pasta is also handmade and hand-packaged—their products are now available in about 15 stores in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and the New Orleans area.

“Everybody really seems to like it … we’re selling a lot more pasta,” says Thompson. “Right now, we’re making the pasta, packaging it, boxing it and going to the stores and stocking the shelves ourselves, so we’re at the point now where we’re looking for a good distributor to give us a hand.” Read the full story.