Ragu, Palermo Villa collaborate on frozen pizzas

The new product line features four varieties, each crafted with a Ragu sauce.

Ragu, the pasta and pizza sauce brand that was the first to make Italian sauces available in the U.S. nationwide after its founding in 1937, is launching its new line of frozen pizza made in collaboration with U.S. frozen-pizza maker Palermo Villa, Inc. This partnership is a natural extension of the Ragu brand’s current sauce lineup.

The Ragu Frozen Pizzas will be available at select retailers, with a suggested retail price of anywhere from $4.99-$6.99 depending on location and market. The new product line features four varieties, each crafted with a sauce inspired by Ragu atop a medium-thickness, pizzeria-style crust.

The pizza varieties include:

Ragu Cheese Pizza: Ragu-inspired sauce—vine-ripened tomatoes and traditional spices on an airy pizzeria-style crust topped with rich whole-milk mozzarella, provolone, and white-cheddar cheeses.
Ragu Combination Pizza: a pillowy pizzeria-style crust topped with Ragu-inspired sauce, vine-ripened tomatoes, and traditional spices, sumptuous whole-milk mozzarella, Italian sausage, and sliced pepperoni.
Ragu Pepperoni Pizza: Ragu-inspired sauce, vine-ripened tomatoes, and traditional spices on a pizzeria-style crust topped with whole-milk mozzarella and savory sliced pepperoni.
Ragu Supreme Pizza: a pizzeria-style crust topped with RAGÚ-inspired sauce vine-ripened tomatoes and traditional spices, whole-milk mozzarella, Italian sausage, sliced pepperoni, plus a colorful array of green and red peppers, black olives, and onions.

With this new line up of frozen pizzas, Ragu continues to honor its Italian roots while providing consumers with convenient, everyday meal solutions, it says.

“Ragu stands for providing quality products to families looking for easy and delicious ways to ease their busy lives,” says Nick Fallucca, chief innovation officer for Palermo’s. “What better way to do this by launching a line of Ragu frozen pizzas, with their signature sauce at its core, with one of the country’s leading frozen-pizza manufacturers? We’re honored to partner with Ragu—we’re two companies with Italian heritage at the heart of everything we do.”

Megan Frank, SVP, marketing, Mizkan America (makers of Ragu), says: “The Ragu brand has been a household name in the U.S. for decades and is beloved by millions of consumers, but it’s not a brand content to rest on its laurels. Earlier this year we launched an exciting collaboration with You Tube’s popular Hot Ones/First We Feast Team to take the brand into the hot-sauce category. Now, we’re excited to launch our latest collaboration with one of the biggest pizza makers in the U.S., which will expand our brand into the freezer case. These are exciting times for Ragu and we can’t wait for Ragu and Palermo’s fans nationwide to try these amazing new pizzas!”

Ragu Frozen Pizzas are set to hit the shelves in early May nationwide at select retailers including SEG/Winn Dixie, Food City, Hy-Vee, and Hannaford, with more locations being added soon! More information can be found online here.