Company type | Private |
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Founded | 1958 [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]
Krinos both imports and manufactures Greek, Italian, Indian, Pakistani 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]