Coppola Foods

Coppola Foods is an Italian food family owned company with a heritage dating back to 1903[1] in the production and supply of Italian food products.[2][3]

Coppola Foods
TypePrivate (family-owned)
IndustryFood Processing
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Mercato San Severino, Italy
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsCanned tomatoes, beans and vegetables, soups and sauces, olive oil, rice
Websitewww.coppolafoods.com

History[4]
  • 1903: Gerardo Coppola establishes a food-trading and serving business in Fontana Formiello in Mercato San Severino.
  • 1936: Ernesto Coppola takes over the trading business from his father and expands the trading activities to include pasta, grains and legumes.
  • 1952: Ernesto Coppola sets up a cannery in Mercato San Severino and starts canning the San Marzano tomatoes grown in the area on an industrial scale.
  • 1969: Eugenio Coppola joins his father and brothers’ tomato canning business and oversees its growth and expansion.
  • 2012: Ernesto Coppola and Maria Suleymanova establish Coppola Foods in London, UK, with innovation at its heart to develop the Coppola brand worldwide.
  • 2015: Coppola Foods sets up a distribution platform in Latin America, Coppola Foods do Brasil, headed by Andrea Carpentieri
  • 2018: Coppola Foods opens a commercial office in Melbourne, Australia, to serve the Asia Pacific region

Products
  • Preserved tomatoes
  • Sauces, pesto and soups
  • Condiments (ketchup, mayonnaise, oils and vinegars)
  • Preserved vegetables (beans, antipasti and olives)
  • Grains (rice, farro, barley, millet and polenta)
  • Spreads

Brands[5]
  • Coppola Salerno
  • La Fonte
  • D'ARCO
  • Fontana FORMIELLO
  • Hillfield
  • Fabalous

Awards

Fabulous organic cocoa and hazelnut chickpea spread was awarded Innovative Better-For-You Product of the Year at Food Matters Live 2019.[6]

Coppola Foods was one of Europe fastest growing Italian food companies according to 2018 and 2019 Financial Times' FT 1000: Europe's Fastest Growing Companies list.[7][8]

Coppola Foods is registered in the Registry of Historic Italian Companies. This registry is kept by Unioncamere, the association of Italian Chambers of Commerce, and contains all companies that have been in business for more than 100 years.[1]

References
  1. "coppola industria alimentare srl unipersonale - Unioncamere". www.unioncamere.gov.it.
  2. "Coppola Foods: la cultura del cibo a Prodexpo 2013 | Russia Oggi". archive.ph. 2013-04-13. Archived from the original on 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  3. "Halal Magazine | THAIFEX 2013". Issuu.
  4. "Coppola Foods | Making Good Food Better - overview". Coppola Foods | Making Good Food Better.
  5. "Coppola Foods | Making Good Food Better - brands". Coppola Foods | Making Good Food Better.
  6. "Awards 2019 Winners". www.foodmatterslive.com.
  7. Rininsland, Ændrew; Smith, Ian; Blood, David (February 11, 2018). "The FT 1000: The complete list of Europe's fastest growing companies". www.ft.com.
  8. "FT1000 2019".


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