Castaño (bakery)

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| name = Panaderías Castaño

| image = Castaño store front in Santiago.jpg

| image_caption = A store front in Santiago (2023)

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| foundation = 1933

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| location_city = Santiago

| location_country = Chile

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| area_served = Chile

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| industry = Food

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| num_employees = 600

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| homepage = [http://www.castano.cl castano.cl]

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Panaderías Castaño is a chain of bakeries in Chile. It is the second largest bakery chain in the country.USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. [http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200602/146176913.doc Global Agriculture Information Network Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719221013/http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200602/146176913.doc |date=2006-07-19 }} [Chile]. 2/6/2006. Its subsidiary, Grain Red S.A., opened the first Starbucks coffee outlet in Chile.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_August_21/ai_106759180 Starbucks Celebrates Opening of First Store in Santiago, Chile]

In addition to selling bread, its empanadas are also popular. The sweet version, topped with chancaca, of sopaipilla, a traditional pastry popular in Chilean culture, is also well known in Castaño bakeries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisischile.cl/chiles-traditional-sweets/?lang=en|title=Chile's traditional sweets|date=2011-04-18|website=This is Chile|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-27|archive-date=2019-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507085320/https://www.thisischile.cl/chiles-traditional-sweets/?lang=en|url-status=dead}}

Animal Welfare

In 2018, the international NGO, Sinergia Animal, launched a campaign directed at the company, asking them to announce a cage-free egg commitment for its entire supply chain. By 2021, the company still has not made a statement regarding the motion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldinamo.cl/ambiente/2019/04/16/ong-acuso-a-panaderias-castano-de-crueldad-animal-en-la-elaboracion-de-sus-productos/|title=ONG acusó a panaderías Castaño de crueldad animal en la elaboración de sus productos|date=16 April 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.publimetro.cl/cl/noticias/2019/06/20/gallinas-huevos.html|title=Gallinas felices: Huevos producidos sin sufrimiento aumentan su presencia en Chile y el mundo}}

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