About
A family business, built on relationships that last.
Since 1993, one mission: bringing genuine certified Italian organics to foreign markets — one personal visit, one honest agreement at a time.
The SoloBio story
SoloBio began in 1993 with a simple conviction:
that the small Italian organic producers doing the most honest work deserved a trustworthy route to markets abroad — and that importers deserved a real person standing behind every
recommendation.
For over three decades, the practice has stayed the same: we personally visit every producer before we ever recommend them. We see the land, meet the people, taste the work.
Nothing reaches an importer that we haven’t stood in front of ourselves.
Registered as Solo Bio di Sabrina Sanlej, it is a family business now carried forward across generations —
the same relationships, deepened by
time, and the same refusal to treat
sourcing as a transaction.
Three decades
A short history of the business.
1990
Roots in the organic movement — Sabrina active in organic promotion; Antonio already a decade in, later IFOAM.
1993
SoloBio is founded by Sabrina Sanlej, to bring genuine certified Italian organics to foreign markets.
2000s
The network deepens across regions — and the practice of personally visiting every producer becomes the rule.
2010s
A family business carried across generations as Francesco joins, the same relationships deepened by time.
Today
30+ years on, the trusted coordinator between European importers and small Italian organic producers.
The team
The people behind the promise.
Decades inside the organic movement — not newcomers to it. Credentials we can state plainly.
What we hold to.
01
Producers with a story
We deliberately favour producers with a philosophy and a history — a Modena balsamic family at it for a century, a farming cooperative organic since 1984, a Calabrian mill certified since 1990. We tell their stories with warmth, and protect their identity as a matter of principle.
02
Real sustainability
Certified organic in substance, not as a label of convenience. We state credentials in plain words and work only with genuinely certified producers.
03
Long-term, mutual relationships
We build trade that lasts for both sides — fair terms for producers,
reliability for importers, and a single point of contact who stays through every season.
Thirty years of trust, one conversation away.
Tell us what you’re looking to source — we’ll advise on the right producers.