Kydonakis Bros G.P. · Tympaki, Crete
Two brothers and one plain, since 1983. The working pages below carry the company’s own published record.
Kydonakis Bros G.P. · Tympaki, Crete
01 / 04 Corporate profile
Corporate profileTwo 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.
02 / 04 Facilities
FacilitiesAn 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.
03 / 04 The people
The peopleA 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.
04 / 04 Ecological practices
Ecological practicesOur 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.
Certifications and traceability
EU OrganicGR-BIO-15.300-0079890.2025.001
PDO MessaraPOC/2403-20889.13
FSSC 22000 v620103190001485
Kosher630-2636/01GR-BIO-15.300-0079890.2025.001
TÜV Austria Hellas (GR-BIO-15)
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.
December 10, 2025 – December 9, 2026Verify at source ↗
POC/2403-20889.13
ELGO DIMITRA / AGROCERT, Ministry of Rural Development & Food
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.
November 3, 2023 – November 2, 2026
20103190001485
TÜV Austria Hellas
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.
March 26, 2026 – March 7, 2028Verify at source ↗
630-2636/01
European Kosher, Brussels
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.
April 1, 2026 – March 31, 2027Verify at source ↗
Example lot 0407022013
Every unit carries a lot number tracing back to grove, analysis and production run. Certificates of analysis are available per lot on request.
Tympaki, Messara plain, Crete
Two brothers, one plain, since 1983. Every certificate above carries a number you can check with the body that issued it. Whatever it does not answer, ask us.