The text presented below is the result of a Business History Research Project of the Colombian Gastronomical Industry Association, which was proposed as a general objective to regain the 50 years of history of the Acodrés Group, to know the levels of development achieved by the institution and its projection, and to recognise the people who built and contributed to the association’s formation and evolution. The qualitative methodology guided the investigation, requiring the review of archive documents of the Association and personal archives, press articles which enabled press texts and photographic images to be collected (as secondary sources), while conducting 13 in-depth interviews with honorary presidents, current members of the Board of Directors and familiar with the sector that assaults the association, and the development of surveys aimed at the various chapters of Acodrés.