After the war, he began working for
Messageries Maritimes as a sailor. In 1880, he exhibited four of his products at the
Melbourne International Exhibition. In 1882, he and his brother began selling imported products in their shops on
High Street. They soon began branching out into confectionaries and cakes, as well as the import of construction materials. In 1892, Bastiani handed ownership of the business over to his brother-in-law Joseph Cardella and retired to
Nice, where he established a canned fruit factory. Cardella did not manage the business well and sold off some of the cannery's canning machines to a rival company, which began manufacturing boxes with Bastiani's stickers. Bastiani then returned to Singapore to retake ownership of the company. However, he sold his pineapple cannery in Summer 1900, and his entire business in 1902, after which he returned to Nice. ==Personal life and death==