Grupo Ypióca - History and Tradition

Our History

Dario Telles de Menezes
1st Generation

Dario Borges Telles
2nd Generation

Paulo Campos Telles
3rth Generation

Everardo Ferreira Telles
4th Generation

As he landed in the state of Ceará in 1846 Dario Telles, a Portuguese of keen foresight, brought along the secrets of the finest European distilled . After settling in the city of Maranguape, he set up a prosperous still which he baptized Ypióca. It all started with a small ceramic alembic he had carried along from Portugal.

Although the second generation, led by captain Dario Borges Telles, introduced cast iron stills, processing was still entirely manual.

In 1929 Paulo Campos Telles took over and brought about important innovations such as bottling liters with a precision dropper and aging in balsamic barrels which allowed stocking for periods of over two years.

In1968 the fourth generation, under the guidance of Everardo Ferreira Telles, assumed control of the enterprise and brought about significant innovations and state of the art technology. This originated new additional establishments as well as a diversified range of products thus making Ypióca one of the most solid beverage companies in the country.

At the end of 1968 Ypióca's rate of production was 2.5 million liters/year. Today its five modern industrial units are capable of producing 40 million liters/year thereby fulfilling the needs of the most demanding beverage markets both national and worldwide.

Our Company

“With more than a century and a half of existence, the Ypióca Group integrates a system of seven modern companies of medium load, generating 1.200 direct employment and more than 20.000 indirect. All involved in the production of a product of the highest quality, that is present in the national and international market.

The constant search of the excellence, made that the Ypióca Group modernised itself. Acquiring machines of high technology and developing an integrated process, that allows a total control of the production. From the selection of the raw material and planting to the industrialisation of packing -through the recycling of sub-products - is guaranteed the preservation of the environment, another concern of the Ypióca Group.

It is 4 generations, 155 years of work looking for quality. That's the reason, affectionately, Ypióca is called BRAZILIAN PASSION.

The Company has its own fields of sugar-cane production, where the most modern agricultural techniques are used.

Ypióca is the only Cachaça of Ceará, and one of the few in the country, found in all the great supermarkets, wholesalers, distributors and specialised houses throughout Brazil, being exported for several countries of Europe, United States and Japan.