17.04.1987 COMINTRADE is company is founded with the intention of offering commerical and financial assistance economic operators buying and selling merchandise from and to foreign countries to be able to apply our financial capacities and personal knowledge of markets with several extra-european countries.

1988 We decide to begin collateral mediator business for commodities coming from Brasil (soluble coffee, dry fruit) and from Egypt (aluminium, camomile, karkadé).

1989 The first results arrive from coffee aand soluble coffee supplying to important Italian companies: any other form of mediation is put aside, and we concentrate on the soluble coffee supply.

1990-1993 The results obtained are consolidated and other imprtant clients are aquired(the majority of which are still supplied by our company with punctuality and with whom business relations are reciprocally of trust).

1994 With the first signs of the "Hard discount" phenomena in Italy (we were already aware of this reality in Germany and France in the second half of the eighties) we decide to enter into this sector, which in that period was in great ferments.

1994-1996 We reach 50% of the specific "soluble coffee" with more than 300,000 100g. jars sound per year ; 35% "tea bag" with more than 8,000,000 bags sold per year. We decide to purchase a new factory and automtaci machinary to package our own products : something that until 1995 had been done by third parties.

1997 With the rapid growth of vigourous competition between Discounts stores continuously lowering prices in an effort to win market segment percentage, we decide to to exit the market as it is too dangerous and operate a "cession of company branch" The following years will prove us right in our decision.

1998 Having given over our "discount branch" we rivitalize our "core business" importing and selling soluble coffee, amplifying with other soluble products purchased in Brasil, Paraguay Argentina, Egypt, India: the soluble versions of coffee, tea, camomile, barley, karkadé : and leaf tea. The packaging machinary previously purchased now becomes useful again for the product packaging of third parties. We widen this area of products to include organically grown products, and acquire interesting new clients in this sector.

1999 We are offered the opportunity of purchasing a company branch which operates coffee tablet packing for third parties, and decide to enter into this sector too.

2001 We purchase a new system for the packaging of coffee in tablets.This allows us to produce coffee tablets in the 14gr. format aside the traditional 7gr. (standard). After a modification is made to the machine by the manufacturer upon our request, we are now also able to package milled barley, herbal teas in tablet form.