AZAÏS-POLITO, Conserverie Artisanale de Spécialités Sétoises, is today known and recognized for the Quality of its 100% natural products. The AZAIS-POLITO brand, which has been offering “Fine Fish Specialties” since the early 60s, has become a “Quality Signature” appreciated by gourmets for its “Tasteful” products. AZAIS-POLITO preserves from Sète are a must in our selection of “Mediterranean Fish Preserves”.
This family-run business is still the oldest artisanal cannery in Sète, the Mediterranean’s leading fishing port, where it was founded in 1963 by two old Sétois pasta-making families. In 1945, Lisette POLITO married Georges AZAIS, the famous Sétois fishmonger and founder of the Sète fish auction, bringing her pasta-making family into the world of fish…
With this alliance, Jean POLITO and his brother-in-law Georges AZAIS paved the way for a new company for both families. The POLITO family, in which manufacturing secrets have been handed down from father to son for four generations, still runs the business today.
“I hope that one day, one of my grandchildren will follow in my footsteps and perpetuate our family tradition of putting “the best products” on gourmet tables, with the same dedication that I have to continuing what our forefathers started so many years ago…” says Jean-Claude POLITO, CEO of the Conserverie since its creation…
