Who i am

An Italian entrepreneur, Biagio Carà was born on July 31, 1958, in Belgium, into a modest family. He is the eldest of three children; his father, an Italian immigrant, worked in the Belgian mines to support them.

In 1974, at the age of 16, uninterested in academics, he left school and began working as an apprentice car body repairer.

In the early 1980s, he founded his first company, specializing in the restoration of classic cars. This experience opened the door to real estate, where he carried out several large-scale projects over the following years.

In 1998, he diversified his activities by opening two nightclubs, “305” and “Paradiso,” as well as a dinner-show restaurant, which he sold two years later.

In 1999, he moved to Milan, then to Sanremo, where he developed new projects.

In 2005, he acquired a 55-hectare industrial site in Belgium, with the vision of creating a “mini-city” complemented by a 30-hectare vineyard and a 10-megawatt photovoltaic installation. The project was delayed by political pressures.

In 2013, he founded “Cara’sfood,” a company producing Italian meals for mass distribution, and launched the “Riso Box” in Milan. That same year, he created Ottimismo, roasting and distributing coffee beans and capsules under the “Nero Milano” brand across Europe.

In 2014, he launched “Pakoff,” a caviar brand based in Monaco, built around a vacuum encapsulation technique with inert gas.

In 2018, he opened the “Nero Milano Restaurant” in Flanders (Belgium), designed to become a franchise model.

In 2019, he expanded into fashion manufacturing with Pakoff Wear, based at a factory in Robbio, in the province of Pavia. When the Covid-19 pandemic halted the fashion industry the following spring, he converted the factory to make protective masks. At its peak the plant turned out six to ten million masks a month. He donated masks to the Red Cross of Monaco and to Secours populaire in Nice. Italian television covered the story, including a segment on Mattino Cinque.

Today, he continues to oversee his multiple businesses with undiminished energy and ambition.