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Kydonakis Bros G.P. · Tympaki, Crete

The Company

Two brothers and one plain, since 1983. The working pages below carry the company’s own published record.

Family firm since
1983
Production & bottling plant
8,000 m²
Extraction
Cold, ≤27°C
Food safety
FSSC 22000
Export countries
49
International awards
100+
The mill and its yard on the Messara plain, seen from the air, olive groves and greenhouses around it and the mountains behind.
The mill from the air

Kydonakis Bros G.P. · Tympaki, Crete

01 / 04 Corporate profile

Corporate profileTwo brothers, one plain, since 1983: 100% Koroneiki olives, milled at the family’s own plant on the Tympaki–Lagolio road.

02 / 04 Facilities

FacilitiesAn 8,000 m² plant, privately owned: malaxation at 27 °C or below, cold extraction, and every lot numbered.

03 / 04 The people

The peopleTwo brothers and the people beside them choose by hand when to pick, at what ripeness, and how soon to mill.

04 / 04 Ecological practices

Ecological practicesOrganic oils certified under GR-BIO-15, cold-extracted: no heat above 27 °C, no solvents, nothing added.

The record, in full

  1. Corporate profile

    Two brothers, one plain, since 1983. Our flagship oils are produced from 100% Koroneiki olives, with certified PDO Messara, PGI Crete, organic and conventional extra virgin olive oil options, all milled at the family's own plant on the Tympaki–Lagolio road. The plant takes in ten tonnes of olives an hour, bottles the house's own lines, and presses under other companies' labels besides. Over a hundred international awards have come from that one plain.

  2. Facilities

    An 8,000 m² plant, privately owned. Fruit arrives from the surrounding groves and goes onto the line: malaxation at 27 °C or below for no more than forty minutes, and cold extraction. The plant holds FSSC 22000 and works to ISO 22000 and HACCP, and every lot leaves numbered, traceable back to grove, analysis and production run.

  3. The people

    A family firm: two brothers, and the people who work the groves and the line beside them. The decisions that set the oil's chemistry are made by hand: when to pick, at what ripeness, how long the fruit waits before it is milled. Early harvest costs yield and buys chemistry, and somebody has to choose it every season.

  4. Ecological practices

    Our organic olive oils are certified under GR-BIO-15, while all production is managed under certified food-safety and full traceability procedures. The oil is cold-extracted: no heat above 27 °C, no solvents, nothing added. Every lot is traceable back to its grove, its analysis and its production run.

The Evidence Room

Certifications and traceability

Every bottle carries its number.

  1. Grove
  2. Analysis
  3. Production run
  4. The bottle

Every unit carries a lot number tracing back to grove, analysis and production run. Certificates of analysis are available per lot on request.

EU Organic, GR-BIO-15.300-0079890.2025.001PDO Messara, POC/2403-20889.13FSSC 22000 v6, 20103190001485Kosher, 630-2636/01

  1. Organic, certified.

    EU Organic

    GR-BIO-15.300-0079890.2025.001Verify at source

    TÜV Austria Hellas (GR-BIO-15)December 10, 2025 – December 9, 2026

    Preparation, distribution and export of organic olive oil, certified under Regulation (EU) 2018/848. Operator ΑΦΟΙ ΚΥΔΩΝΑΚΗ Ο.Ε. Pressing, processing, packaging and labelling; wholesale; export.

  2. Origin, protected.

    PDO Messara

    POC/2403-20889.13

    ELGO DIMITRA / AGROCERT, Ministry of Rural Development & FoodNovember 3, 2023 – November 2, 2026

    Olive oil packaging of «Messara P.D.O.», conforming to Reg. (EU) 1151/2012 and J.M.D. 261611/406/22.03.07. The designation itself is registered in OJ L273/3, 12 October 2013: growing, harvesting and milling must all take place inside the defined zone, exclusively Koroneiki.

  3. Food safety, audited.

    FSSC 22000 v6

    20103190001485Verify at source

    TÜV Austria HellasMarch 26, 2026 – March 7, 2028

    Production (milling), filtering and bottling: packaging of olive oil in tin containers, glass bottles in protective atmosphere, and in bulk flexitanks (LDPE) and IBC tanks (HDPE). Scheme: ISO 22000:2018, ISO/TS 22002-1:2009 and additional FSSC 22000 requirements (Version 6). Food chain category CIV. COID GRC-1-1674-508739, initially certified 2019-04-09.

  4. Kosher, supervised.

    Kosher

    630-2636/01Verify at source

    European Kosher, BrusselsApril 1, 2026 – March 31, 2027

    Pareve status across thirteen lines, certified per brand: the house's own Oleum Crete (standard and organic), One Day, Syllogi and Collection, and the labels it bottles for others. Signed by Rabbi Yosef Minsky, Rabbinical Administrator.

Tympaki, Messara plain, Crete

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