Sam Mills (company)


Sam Mills is a major Romanian and European food company founded in 1994 in Satu Mare, Romania, and is specialised in the processing of grains, especially corn and wheat, producing bakery products, vegetable oil, pastas and water. The company is structured into three branches including Sam Mills, Arpis and Sam Trade.
It controls Sam Mills, Arpis, Sam Trade, Sam Gida, Sam Trade UK, Sam Trade DE and Sam Mills LLC.
Sam Mills produces several kinds of pasta under the Arpis and Pasta d'Oro brands and is one of Romania's leading pasta makers, with 40% of the Romanian market in corn pastas. Sam Mills produces around 2,400 tonnes of dried pasta monthly in around 30 shapes and sizes. It is also a leading corn flour, pasta sauce and corn oil producer, distributor and seller in Romania. Starting 2016 Sam Mills made its way to the water industry. Since then, the company is producing water under the AquaVia brand.
The most important branch of the group is Arpis one of the largest food distribution companies in Romania and the largest corn related company in the country with a market share of around 40%. It was founded in 1994 and it is based in Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County. The exports and foreign trade branch called Sam Trade was founded in 2007 and it is based in Bucharest. The company opened its first international office in 2006 at Istanbul, Turkey followed in 2008 by three other locations in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Rastatt, Germany and Boynton Beach, Florida, United States.