Who We Are
For decades, we have been offering top-tier products for Confectionery, Bakery, and Ice Cream, alongside high-level service and advanced technical support and training for every professional. We collaborate with the largest raw material producers in Europe, exclusively, crafting new product concepts with them and for you. We constantly evolve our services to be right by your side whenever and wherever you need us, across Greece, Cyprus, and the Balkans.
In 2019, Stelios Kanakis SA became part of the diverse Norwegian group ORKLA, internationally active in various business sectors, including food. This move enriched our product range and granted us significant benefits stemming from synergies within the multinational group.
Our History
Our People
Our people are the heart and soul of our operation, bringing our company’s goals to life with professionalism, dedication, and love for the industry.
Our highly trained technicians provide customers in Greece and abroad with comprehensive technical support, expertise for optimal application and showcasing of our products, new original recipes, and solutions to all daily challenges in bakery, confectionery, and ice cream production.
The Sales team ensures immediate, efficient, and above all, friendly service to our customers across Greece. Comprising more than 20 specialized professionals, they conduct daily visits to our clients while also serving our cooperating merchants and distributors in their regions.
The Marketing & Communication team drives the development of our portfolio, communicates our product concepts, and organizes exhibitions in collaboration with the European houses we represent.
Our Finance department, Purchasing and Logistics team, Customer Service team – available daily to assist our partners, processing orders promptly for the next day, the Quality Control team, and the Warehouse and Distribution team dynamically support the company’s activities and lead us into the next day.
The people of STELIOS KANAKIS SA embody our daily work, they are our continuity, and they fill us with pride.
Our Facilities
Located in Acharnes, Attica, our headquarters span over modern facilities covering 2,783 square meters on a 15,819 square meter-owned area. These facilities house our central offices, a state-of-the-art distribution center, and a standard technical training and application center.
Our exemplary functioning distribution center has a storage area of 1,589 square meters with a capacity exceeding 1,900 pallet positions, following the FIFO (First In – First Out) principle. With the ability to handle 18,000 tons annually and an average storage period of 25 days, we ensure daily service to you with cutting-edge refrigerated trucks, wherever and whenever you need us.
Within our premises lies the Athens Center of Gastronomy, a modern technical training center for bakery, confectionery, ice cream, catering, and cooking applications. Equipped with state-of-the-art production facilities and audiovisual technology, the Athens Center of Gastronomy allows professionals to attend demonstrations by renowned international chefs, theoretical courses, practical workshops, and high-standard seminars in collaboration with the leading French culinary school, Ecole Lenôtre.
Since March 2007, our Northern Greece branch operates in the Industrial Area of Sindos, a modern unit covering a total area of 2,231 square meters. Created to serve Macedonia, Thrace, and Thessaly and function as the company’s export hub in the Balkan region, it includes modern offices and warehouses with chambers of varying temperatures and humidity levels. Additionally, it hosts the Thessaloniki Center of Gastronomy, providing similar technical training services to professionals in Northern Greece and neighboring Balkan countries
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