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{{Infobox person
| name = Giovanni Rana
| image = Giovanni Rana
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|10|15|df=y}}
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In 1962 Pastificio Rana officially opened its doors.{{where?|date=September 2021}} At the beginning the production, the pasta was strictly handmade. Rana himself oversaw its distribution and delivered the tortellini from house to house.
With the assistance of local engineers and mechanics, Giovanni Rana designed and developed new machines to meet the increasing demand for pasta. The machines increased production from about {{convert|33|lb|kg|abbr=in|order=flip}} of tortellini an hour to about {{convert|44000|lb|kg|abbr=in|order=flip}} an hour. In 1971, the factory moved to its current location of San Giovanni Lupatoto. Rana's son Gian Luca (today the CEO of his father's company) joined the company and expanded the brand to other European countries and the US. The first factory in Chicago opened in 2012. In October 2012 the Giovanni Rana pasta company opened its first restaurant in the United States at the [[Chelsea Market]] complex in the [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]], New York City.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/giovanni-rana-brings-its-pasta-to-chelsea-market/|last=Fabricant|first=Florence|title=Giovanni Rana Brings Its Pasta to Chelsea Market|date=25 October 2012|access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref> The same year the firm opened a restaurant at [[Regent's Place]] in [[London]],
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