Our story
The COME s.r.l. was founded in 2014 by Ezio Comparini, after 35 years of experience in consumer goods; he began his career in 1977 when, with his brother Mario, he set up CUOCO GEL,
later became GELIT S.p.A (located in Doganella di Ninfa – Cisterna di Latina, which was acquired by the Barilla Group in 2001), co-packer of the main leaders of the market for frozen food like mozzarella in a carriage, crepes, rice balls, arancini.Ezio Comparini was the first in the world to introduce the method of production “STIR FRY” in 1991, a new technology that has the merit to revive and revitalize a segment, namely ready meals, with great potential: the new method allows to choose the ingredients of the recipe, cook them individually according to the time required for each, freeze them individually (Individually Quick Frozen), assemble them in the right doses, dress with the exclusive “drops” of frozen sauce, pack them to be ready in just 5 minutes in a pan (the famous “four jumps in the pan”), against the 30/40 minutes for the traditional block-frozen product! In 1993 the company conquered the consumers by marketing its products under the brand Surgela (SME) later became Buitoni (Nestlé): exclusive partner of all major brands of frozen food sector of the distribution chains, with private label and own brand, the first competitor of the multinational market leader, the company founded by Ezio Comparini produced about 20,000 tons of finished product between crepes stuffed (“sofficini”), IQF ready meals, rice balls, arancini, Mozzarella (Galbani) and other products.
