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[[File:Loacker Quadratini, napolitaner.jpg|thumb|Loacker's [[Quadratini]] wafer biscuits]]The company was founded in 1925 in the historic city center of [[Bolzano]] by the Austrian confectioner Alfons Loacker.<ref name="origins">{{cite web |title=Le nostre origini - radici regionali, presenza mondiale |url=http://www.loacker.it/it/che-bonta/le-nostre-origini/ |publisher=Loacker |language=Italian |accessdate=10 July 2017 |archive-date=23 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423083501/http://www.loacker.it/it/che-bonta/le-nostre-origini/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="sky">{{Cite web |date=21 January 2019 |title=Storia della Loacker di Bolzano, dai wafer alle praline di cioccolato |url=https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2019/01/21/wafer-loacker-bolzano-storia.html |access-date=22 January 2019 }}</ref> Back then, he opened a small store with two assistants in the capital of South Tyrol, at Piazza Domenicani to be precise.<ref name="sky2">{{cite web |url=https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2019/01/21/wafer-loacker-bolzano-storia.html |title=Storia della Loacker di Bolzano, dai wafer alle praline di cioccolato |date=21 January 2019 |access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref> Over
In the years1974, theLoacker confectionerymoved storeaway becamefrom toothe small until 1974city, markedmarking the transition from a small regional [[bakery]] to an industrial reality, by moving away from the city. Armin Loacker, Alfons' son, chose the [[Ritten|Renon]] plateau in the heart of the [[Dolomites]] (a [[World Heritage Site|UNESCO Natural World Heritage]] site) to produce his own wafers, thereby abiding by his motto: "a natural product is manufactured in a natural environment."