Krinos Foods

For the settlement in Achaea, Greece, see Krinos, Achaea.
Krinos Foods
Private
Founded 1958[1] or 1985[2]
Headquarters New York, New York
Products Greek food
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]

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]

Together with two other food importers, Big Alpha Foods Inc. and Doric Foods Inc., Krinos was formerly controlled by John Moscahlaidis, who founded it in 1985[2][13] or earlier.[14] In 1988 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to importing contaminated cheese and mislabeling dairy products.[15][16][17] His son, Eric Moschlaidis, is currently president 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][18][19] 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][18][19]

In 2004 Krinos acquired Hellas International, a Greek food company headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.[20]

Logo

The company logo features a letter "K" formed by two green olive leaves against a brown stem.[21]

References

  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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Company Overview of Krinos Foods, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved October 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "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.
  9. ↑ About Us, Krinos Foods, retrieved October 22, 2012.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 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 at Highbeam, subscription required).
  13. ↑ Florence Fabricant, "Snails and Pastries From an Ambassador of Cretan Cuisine", The New York Times, September 30, 1992.
  14. ↑ "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).
  15. ↑ Associated Press, "Importer Pleads Guilty In Tainted Cheese Plot", The New York Times, June 28, 1988.
  16. ↑ Frances Ann Burns, United Press International, "Importer admits to shipping bad cheese", The Bryan Times, June 28, 1988, p. 2.
  17. ↑ "Man Gets 2 Years in Jail for Importing Contaminated Cheese", The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), September 12, 1988.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 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, subscription required).
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Adulterated olive oil seized in New Jersey", The Food Institute Report, February 13, 2006 (Online at Highbeam, subscription required).
  20. ↑ "Mergers & acquisitions", The Food Institute Report, June 7, 2004 (Online at Highbeam, subscription required.)
  21. ↑ 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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