Krinos Foods

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Krinos Foods
Company type Private
Founded1958 [1] or 1985 [2]
Headquarters New York, New York
Products Greek food
Greek cuisine
Website www.krinos.com

Krinos Foods, Inc. is a United States private company based in New York that imports and produces Greek and other Mediterranean foods. It is one of the largest Greek food importers in North America. [3] [4] [5] [6] The company headquarters are in the Long Island City section of Queens, but it has purchased a site to move to the Bathgate Industrial Park in the Tremont section of the Bronx. [6] [7] [8] In addition to New York, the company has manufacturing facilities in Chicago, Toronto, and Montreal. [9]

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Products and history

Krinos both imports and manufactures Greek, Italian, Indian, and Middle Eastern foods, including "cheeses, peppers, olives, ... cookies", [10] phyllo, [11] olive and other vegetable oils, figs, halva, grape leaves, yogurt, wines and beers (including Mythos beer from Greece [12] ), coffee, tea, fruit juices and nectars. [2] In the mid-2000s, the company was receiving approximately $18,000 a year in payments for the participation of its Long Island City plant in a remote power cut-off program with Enernoc of Boston. [10]

In 1965, Krinos Foods Canada was founded. [13] Together with two other food importers, Big Alpha Foods Inc. and Doric Foods Inc., Krinos was formerly controlled by John Moschalaidis, who founded it in 1985 [2] [14] or earlier. [15] In 1988 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to importing contaminated cheese and mislabeling dairy products. [16] [17] [18] His son, Eric Moschalaidis, is currently chairman of the company. [3] [6] Krinos was also found in 1990 to be selling a banned dye for Easter eggs, and in 1997 to be selling mislabeled cooking oil. [3] [19] [20] In 2005 an investigation by WABC reported on by ABC's Good Morning America showed that some of the company's extra-virgin olive oil contained cheaper ingredients. [3] [19] [20]

In 2004 Krinos acquired Hellas International, a Greek food company headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. [21]

The company logo features a letter "K" formed by two green olive leaves against a brown stem. [22]

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  1. ↑ "NYCEDC Announces Krinos Foods, Inc., a Greek and Mediterranean Specialty Food Importer, Distributor, and Manufacturer, Will Invest Over $20 Million to Expand Headquarters in the Bronx", Press release, New York City Economic Development Corporation, September 10, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Company Overview of Krinos Foods, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved October 22, 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Not-So-Extra-Virgin Olive Oil", Good Morning America , ABC News, July 29, 2005.
  4. ↑ "the country's largest distributor of Greek foods", Florence Fabricant, "Food Notes", The New York Times , August 14, 1996.
  5. ↑ "North America`s largest importer, distributor and manufacturer of Greek foods", "The Greek Debt Crisis Comes to America", PBS Nightly Business Report, May 28, 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 "the largest importer, packager, and producer of Greek products in the United States and Canada", Demetris Tsakas, "Krinos Foods Plans to Leave LIC and Build a High-Tech Plant in Bronx", The National Herald , September 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ City scores another food manufacturer for the Bronx, The Real Deal, September 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ Daniel Beekman, "Bronx getting its fill of food companies as Fairway, Food Fest, Krinos and “R” Best Produce put down roots", New York Daily News , October 17, 2012.
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  10. 1 2 Matt Richtel, "Conservation at the Touch of a Button ", The New York Times, November 7, 2007.
  11. ↑ "Krinos is the most widely available phyllo", Barb Holland, "This versatile, flaky, multi-layered pastry can be used to make everything from pizza to samosas", Toronto Star , March 31, 1999 (payment required)
  12. ↑ "Mythos beer", Cheers, May 1, 2000 Online.
  13. ↑ "Krinos Canada Profile". Businessweek. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  14. ↑ Florence Fabricant, "Snails and Pastries From an Ambassador of Cretan Cuisine", The New York Times, September 30, 1992.
  15. ↑ "Krinos Foods, an importer and distributor of foods from Greece, has completed the financing for a 110000-square-foot facility on a 182000-squarefoot site", Alan S. Oser, "Real Estate; LI City's Industrial Expansion", Real Estate, Business and Finance, The New York Times , September 26, 1979 (Payment required).
  16. ↑ Associated Press, "Importer Pleads Guilty In Tainted Cheese Plot", The New York Times, June 28, 1988.
  17. ↑ Frances Ann Burns, United Press International, "Importer admits to shipping bad cheese", The Bryan Times , June 28, 1988, p. 2.
  18. ↑ "Man Gets 2 Years in Jail for Importing Contaminated Cheese", The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), September 12, 1988.
  19. 1 2 Amy Klein, "Feds put lid on bogus olive oil: Agents raid warehouse, seize 22,700 gallons", Bergen County Record , February 10, 2006 (Online at Highbeam).
  20. 1 2 "Adulterated olive oil seized in New Jersey", The Food Institute Report, February 13, 2006 Online.
  21. ↑ "Mergers & acquisitions", The Food Institute Report, June 7, 2004 (Online)
  22. ↑ Krinos registration of logo in monochrome with and without remaining letters of the name, circa 1981, with list of products, at Trademarkia.
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