The story
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
From Wikipedia’s article on Coppola Foods, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3