CHARCUTERIE IS A FAMILY ART

COMAL started out in 1982 as a small Italian grocer’s. After just a few years, the company’s founders – Sandro Gialdi and Claudio Barbolini – decided, in 1990, to start producing deli meats, opening their first production facility in Novi di Modena, where they made prosciutto cotto. This new business was a huge success and led to rapid growth on the strength of the excellent quality of their product. As their customer base increased, they became a well-known name in the region. Following a powerful earthquake in 2012 that did structural damage to all their buildings, production was temporarily shifted to their facilities in Salara, in the Italian province of Rovigo, which was equipped with impromptu ovens. COMAL was able to return to the original site in 2018, after extensive renovation work that took just two years and resulted in production facilities packed with technology. In the meantime, the second generation of Federico, Filippo and Marina had also nurtured a passion for the craft and eventually joined the business in roles that ranged from administration and marketing to production, giving rise to a highly successful changing of the guard.