PORTRAIT: The ELEOS Brand
The Brand
ELEOS is a brand of Greek food products, organic, ethical and high quality. Olive oils, antipastis, honeys, artichoke hearts or fresh cheeses, ELEOS offers you absolutely everything you need to compose yourself, according to your desires, a meal worthy of the best Greek family tables.
Launched in 2007 by Panos Mechteridis, ELEOS is becoming increasingly popular among connoisseurs as a reference for Greek organic products. Why?
In a word: its authenticity!
The founder
Explanations with Panos, a young Greek entrepreneurial father at the head of the brand.
The products I select for ELEOS are not only organic, which is already very good, they have an origin!
I know the people where my artichokes are grown. The ELEOS olive oil is the same as the one on our table at home, over there in Kavala.
My sun-dried tomatoes? These are the ones I used to eat when I was a kid. These are the ones my children eat under the sun when we visit their grandparents.
ELEOS is the authentic Greece. Not the tourist's Greece, but the local Greece with all its richness of tastes, its typical flavours, its bewitching aromas.
It's a bit like bringing back all my products at the end of the holidays for my own family. Except that we also offer them to enthusiasts who expect a product to have more than just a taste, to be healthy and real.
And that's not all, ELEOS also makes sure that your
Panos' products are grown, harvested and packaged in a responsible manner, with the greatest possible involvement of the local workforce and communities. Panos does not want to profit. He loves Greece, fundamentally, and sees his business as a true partnership with the land.
An example? Olives
Panos does indeed explain (cheerfully and somewhat exultantly) that all the olives he offers are hand-picked and then sorted one by one directly on the spot by the farmers before being jarred without pasteurization. "This way of working, close to the people and on a human scale, allows us to ensure optimal quality and an incredible taste".
ELEOS wants to offer you the best of Greece without intermediaries. Healthy, natural, authentic and responsible food, selected by a real enthusiast who knows his production chain from A to Z.
As a conclusion we take up this beautiful phrase from Panos which underlines how simplicity, veracity and the human hand are intrinsically linked to the ELEOS approach: "good things are made by simple and passionate people."
Would you like to taste olives with chilli? Are you looking for a really aromatic and healthy oil? Find the address nearest you and discover the ELEOS range for yourself.