REZOS BRANDS S.A. is an agri food SME, with expertise in superfoods and functional food oriented, which established in 1983 in Patras, Western Greece. The company has adopted the vertical business model: “from the Farm to Fork”, which includes cultivation, harvesting, research, process, packaging, warehouse storing, marketing, distribution.
REZOS BRANDS S.A. is an agri food SME, with expertise in superfoods and functional food oriented, which established in 1983 in Patras, Western Greece. The company has adopted the vertical business model: “from the Farm to Fork”, which includes cultivation, harvesting, research, process, packaging, warehouse storing, marketing, distribution.
We have invested in organic cultivation of superfoods (sea buckthorn, echinacea, mountain tea sideritis scardica, pilot cultivations etc) at our own farm located at the center of the protected area of Natura 2000 network under the name Antichasia Ori-Meteora. (Central Greece), by adopting the principles of Precision Agriculture with soil sensors, smart irrigation systems and other agri-technologies in order to monitor our organic cultivation, analyse our highest nutritional value crops & optimize the functionality of our products. We use the innovative osmotic dehydration technology (non-thermal procedure), cold plasma applications at the farm & crops, so that we keep all & maximize the goodness, vitamins & bioactive compounds of our superfruits.
We develop functional foods & juices and we undertake researches regarding nanoencapsulation of bioactive ingredients, by-products and their use to everyday food products. Philosophy of the company is the continuous improvement in the fields of research & development on farming and food, sales, marketing, distribution, as a long-term investment. Reliability, stability and respect lead its way. Rezos Brands is designing is going to invest the construction of a fully equipped food science laboratory in order to make pilots on extraction, dehydration, preservation, encapsulation but also to proceed with nutritional – microbial analysis of REZ functional food products.
The company is divided into 3 operational sectors: 1) Commercial, Distribution & Logistics 2) Farming 3) European R&D Department:
- Main activity is the distribution and the development of national sales networks of imported and local food & beverages products, operating in the Greek market. Provides a well operated logistics network, having adopted up to date monitoring and systems, from the purchase stage to the delivery. Boosting sales by We invest at the most modern warehouse management, commercial management software, aiming to ensure customer’s satisfaction both in terms of quality and time of delivery to them.
- The multifunctional farm at Meteora (Central Greece), offers a unique opportunity to upscale sea-buckthorn(hippophae) as the top Greek super fruit. Our mission is to cultivate, process and market, the best organic super fruits starting from sea buckthorn and Greek mountain tea, that have been proven scientifically to benefit the human body and mind. Through this vertical business model, we aspire to launch to the European markets, innovative functional foods based on Greek Mediterranean super fruits and aromatic herbs.
- The European R&D Department carries out research activities in order to upscale existing products and servicestowards the development of new products and services oriented to the European and global markets. Main activities:
- participation & implementation of EU projects (H2020, Erasmus+, PRIMA, LIFE, BBI, EEA Grants, ENI-MED etc.)
- researches on new functional foods & drinks, food sciences & food technologies
- functional – novel food products design
- implementation of pilots/demonstration on innovative smart farming & precision agriculture agri – technologies
- conducting laboratory researches on 1) innovative non thermal dehydration methods (osmosis, freeze drying, cold plasma etc.) 2) extraction technics & 3) nano/micro encapsulation methodology
developing projects on personalized nutrition, plant-based proteins, 3D food printing for special target groups (eg. people with diabetes) towards metabolomics in the farm, nutrigenomics etc.
Key role(s) in the project
REZOS will be involved in energy recovery from dairy and beer processing waste and by-products, as well as in the development of functional food products fortified with proteins. Apart from these, REZOS will be involved in LCA and WEN model development, as well as in exploitation issues.