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 Giorgios Efstathios Martinis immigrated to America in 1968 and started his first Greek Cuisine Restaurant in 1970, in New York City. He had one of the first Gyros Sandwich Shops in the area and trained some of the best known providers of Gyros Sandwich’s in the U.S.A. In 1976 Giorgios Efstathios Martinis sold his restaurants in New York City and in 1977 opened a restaurant in the posh, San Francisco Bay Area, in the County of Marin, California. After operating three Greek Cuisine restaurants, Giorgios decided to return to Greece to look at olive trees in his homeland. Owning and managing restaurants became less of a passion and more of a job for him.
In 1988, thoughts to bottle Greek olive oil and to sell it became his passion. He searched for the right bottling firm in Greece that would work in accordance with U.S. standards of health and safety to compress Greek olives into Greek Olive Oil. Giorgios found the perfect chemistry for his olives in combination with ancient techniques to perfect the rich aromatic, earthy and smooth flavor that is his Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil. All of Martinis olive oil is procured directly from the heart of the Kalamata Region (Messenia) in Greece. Martinis Kalamata Extra Virgin Olive Oil was exported and sold in retail stores nationwide shortly after establishing EuroAmericana in 1989.
EuroAmericana Inc. has been in business for over 23 years, in 1993 it was incorporated, Martinis is a EuroAmericana brand. While working for his father, Giorgios, since the age of twelve, first within Greek factories, then on to creating his own company, Kalamata Food Purveyors Inc. in 2005. George’s son Efstathios Martinis is in the process of acquiring George Martinis ’ Company (EuroAmericana Inc.) and its family legacy in 2009. This acquisition will unite the existing distribution and sales network built over the past 20 years with the newly created supply chain and sales network of Kalamata Food Purveyors, established separately over the past four years. As a direct importer and manufacturer of Greek Kalamata Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Kalamata Olives, and Greek Green Olives, there is no middle man. We bring you the finest Greek Olive products directly from Peloponnese Greece.
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