Corporate Members
Barilla is a family business, not listed on the Stock Exchange, chaired by the brothers Guido, Luca and Paolo Barilla. It was founded by their great-grandfather Pietro Barilla, who opened a bakery in Parma in 1877. Today, Barilla is renowned in Italy and around the world for the quality of its food products. With its brands – Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Pan di Stelle, Gran Cereale, Harrys, Pavesi, Wasa, Filiz, Goodles, Yemina, Misko, Voiello, First, Catelli, Back To Nature and Pasta Evangelists – it advocates tasty, hearty and wholesome nutrition, inspired by the Mediterranean Diet and the Italian lifestyle. When Pietro opened his shop almost 150 years ago, the main aim was to make good food. That principle has now become the Barilla way of doing business, with almost 9,000 people working for the company and a supply chain that shares its values and passion for quality. The Group’s commitment is to offer people the joy that good, well-made food can bring them, produced with selected ingredients from, as far as possible, responsible supply chains, to contribute to a better present and future. Since 1987, a historical archive has been collecting and preserving the company’s history, now a resource open to all via the portal-museum www.archiviostoricobarilla.com.
For further information, visit: www.barillagroup.com; X: @barillagroup; LinkedIn: Barilla Group; Instagram: @barillapeople
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Cancerscan is a leading healthcare data services provider that supports the National Health Insurance Association (NHIA) of Japan to raise public health checkup rates through its unique behavioral-science-based solution. In just nine years, Cancerscan succeeded in establishing solid relationships with more than 700 of the approximately 1,700 municipalities across Japan, promoting health screening, disease management and prevention, and extension of overall healthy life expectancy by utilizing collective data. Cancerscan has been a Corporate Member of the TKC since 2017. We are deeply grateful for Cancerscan’s partnership and global perspective, and for the ways they continue to demonstrate how data, innovation, and collaboration can strengthen public health systems and improve lives at scale.
As a founding Corporate Member of the TKC, Compass Group North America recognized early on the transformative potential of teaching kitchens within large-scale foodservice operations. As one of the world’s leading foodservice providers, Compass Group shapes how millions of people experience food each day across healthcare systems, universities, corporate campuses, and cultural institutions. Through their teaching kitchen initiatives, they are redefining what foodservice can be, turning dining spaces into platforms for culinary education, nutrition literacy, and meaningful engagement around wellbeing and sustainability. Their early and sustained commitment has helped advance the teaching kitchen movement at scale. We are deeply grateful for Compass Group North America’s leadership and partnership, and for the powerful example they set in demonstrating how foodservice can be a force for prevention, performance, and planetary health.
As a founding Corporate Member of the TKC, Google saw early on what so many are just beginning to understand: that food is one of the most powerful tools we have to transform lives, workplaces, and the planet we share. Their teaching kitchen programs are more than just office perks—they are living classrooms where employees practice wellbeing, build community, and fuel productivity. What sets Google apart is not just their scale, but their willingness to lead with purpose. Their commitment to using food as a lever for wellbeing and sustainability echoes the heart of our mission at the TKC, and their early and sustained membership has helped to support the global movement. We are deeply grateful for the Google Food Team’s partnership, their support, and the way they challenge all of us to think bigger, reach farther, and believe that food can—and should—be part of the solution.
