About Us

The Catone International Group is one of Italy’s largest logistics companies and a market leader in refrigerated storage.

The history of the company began in 1958. Mr. Carlo Catone started his milk collection business in Naples with a single truck. The first major milestone was reached in 1970 when it received regional sales of Parmalat products.

With continuous investments and developments, Catone has grown into an international group of companies, becoming a market-leading service provider. It operates in 3 locations in Italy – Pastorano, Vitulazio, Parma – with a storage capacity of 300.000 pallets, more than a thousand employees and 300 trucks.

The multi-company group of companies remained family-owned throughout, under the direction of Mr. Carlo Catone.

To this day, he runs every company. One of her three children is the chief financial officer of the Italian group, the other is the commercial chief of the Italian group, and his son is the professional logistics chief of the Italian group. The third generation, Mr. Catone’s grandchildren, are also involved in the company’s daily life: one of them is the manager of the Budaörs site.

The Catone family decided to systematically develop the site, relocating a significant part of its activities to Hungary. Taking into account the conditions of the site and the ideas and regulations of the local government the first investment started in 2008, followed by others in 2011, 2015, 2016 and finally 2022. With a total of more than 30,000 square metres of temperature-controlled storage space, we have 40,000 deep-freeze (minus 23 degrees Celsius) and 5,300 refrigerated (plus 4-6 degrees Celsius) pallet spaces available to our customers.
The infrastructure, which meets the highest standards, and the state-of-the-art technology are constantly attracting new customers in addition to our long-standing partners.

The built warehouses were built in a uniform-looking, reinforced concrete building on a “house-in-house” basis, with built-in thermal insulation and state-of-the-art, ultra modern, automatically controlled refrigeration. In parallel with the building investments, the owner also renovated and expanded the site’s own industrial track. As a result, the loading area has been directly connected to the warehouses, which established the possibility of intermodal logistics activities.
Catone Kft is committed to environmental protection, so we plan to partially replace road transport with rail transport – our largest customers are also interested in this.

The fleet has also been completely renewed over the years, with Catone Ltd. purchasing 40 new trucks in 2020. Currently, 68 Euro6 trucks are used for domestic and international transport.

Catone Ltd. has become the market leader in Hungary for refrigerated logistics. We are about to reach another milestone in our 30-year history in Hungary: we are planning to build a new warehouse to serve the additional needs of our key partners and expand our services.

Temperature: between -23 and +18 degrees