Rezos Brands SA

REZOS BRANDS SA is offering modern 4,400 sq.m offices, warehouse facilities and logistic center, with top of the line storage and management systems, based in Industrial Area of Patras as well as its European Research & Development Department, based as a branch in Patras City Centre at a 250 sq.m. (150 sq.m. offices and 100 sq.m. for hub use and training classrooms premises) with high tech systems and networks. Additionally, the company has branches in Attica (Athens Office) based in Metamorphosi as well as in Heraklion of Crete, based in Heraklion Industrial Area and Zante island. REZOS BRANDS SA is manned from people having the appropriate knowledge and long experience. The staff of our company, is highly educated, qualified and experienced covered the whole spectrum of REZOS BRANDS’ activities. REZOS BRANDS SA collaborate with EU professionals and a wide network of external collaborators, such as Greek and European Universities, local & public authorities, private companies, chambers, NGO’s and European Experts.
Philosophy of the company is the continuous improvement in the field of European funding programs & initiatives, business consulting, sales, marketing, distribution, research & development as a long-term investment. Reliability, stability and respect lead its way.
The company is divided into 3 operational sectors:
1. Commercial, Distribution & Logistics sector
2. Farming sector
3. European R & D Department
Research & Development refers to the research activities carried out by the department in order to upscale existing products and services towards the development of new products and services oriented to the European and global markets. Via the European R&D department, the company develops and implement various European funded programs and initiatives. It also provides consulting services regarding the available European funding opportunities to organizations and SMEs.
Our project proposals mainly focus at:
 excellence in funding proposals
 impact of the proposal on the organization
 effectiveness of implementation
https://eu.rezosbrands.com/

Aims to
• tackle all European challenges and opportunities,
• adopt European mentality by exchanging all European good practices and values,
• cooperate with an extensive network of partners coming across different sectors and fields,
• support new business opportunities at the European markets.
• develop new products and services
• research functional food products

Research Areas
• Food sector (organic and BIO orientated projects)
• Super fruits and functional foods (personalized nutrition, healthy and beneficial to the human body and mind products)
• Agri entrepreneurs, agri business, agri start ups
• Competitiveness and Innovation for Small and Medium Enterprises
• Farming sector
• Tourism, eco-tourism and agritourism, culture
• Energy, environment,
• New technologies and their application in everyday life, the primary and secondary sectors

Activities
1. Development and implementation of various European funded programs and initiatives. Specialized in the design of innovative and competitive projects and monitoring them thought out their lifecycle:
o identification of the appropriate sources of funding (EU funding scouting)
o identifying the appropriate call (calls scouting)
o project proposal development (draft idea, draft proposal, partners scouting, consortium’s finalization, proposal writing, budget allocation)
o proposal submission (hardcopy or electronically)
o project implementation
o Project management, coordination, monitoring, evaluation, dissemination, technical assistance, financial management, technical reports.
o Updated directories, where are recorded:
- open and pending EU Funded programmes, with a brief description of the Specific Objective of the Call, and the deadlines,
- potential partners, already evaluated by the European Commission or NA,
- public bodies, NGOs, SME’s or VET centers,
- networks related to European initiatives and programmes,
- events, info days, brokerage, matchmaking, conference, symposiums, expo, b2b meetings (SME Instrument- AGRI – Rural Development).

European R&D department has special interest amongst the following initiatives:
• Horizon 2020 (SME Instrument, INNOSUP, LIFE, etc)
• Erasmus+
• COSME
• European Territorial Cooperation Programs (Interreg, ADRION, MED, BALΚAN, ENI CBC MED)
• Agriculture and Rural Development Programme, ERDF
• Rights Equality and Citizenship, Justice Programme
• EU projects Accelerators
2. Provides consulting services regarding the available European funding opportunities to organizations and SMEs:

• SMEs’ introduction to European funding tools
• Mentoring and coaching on strategic European planning
• European lobbying and networking
• Agro Food Hub, incubators, Clusters
• Development and finance consulting services for start-ups through accelerators, incubators, investors, equity funds, crowdfunding, etc.
• Optimization of existing products (material & intellectual). It proposes systems and methods for measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of products (processes, indicators, etc.) aiming their improvement.
• Development of international commercial and research collaborations with the aim of improving the overall competitiveness and outward orientation of the business.
3. Food R&D
• Master an effective approach to food innovation
• For innovation projects, we identify market opportunities, evaluate the technological-economic feasibility and estimate the needs facilitate the construction of a development strategy with the greatest chance for success.
• Developing new products, creating test products and industrializing the products that have been developed
• Define a new USP’s line of production
• Train our staff to lead R&D food projects

REZOS BRANDS ACHIEVEMENTS:
1. 2018 European Business Awards: REZOS BRANDS S.A., is the National Winner for Greece in The Customer and Market Engagement Award category that has appeared on the 2018 European Business Awards - Ones to Watch List for Greece. To make it onto the List then company covered and supported the European Business Awards and RSM expectations on exceptional growth, significant innovation, and an ethical approach to business.
https://www.businessawardseurope.com/vote/detail-new/36/23414

2. KATANA: is a project financed through the H2020 INNOSUP-1-2015 call "Cluster facilitated projects for new value chains" which supports European SMEs in the agrifood value chain to simultaneously access knowledge, technology, capital and markets in order to respond to the global competitive environment.
REZOS BRANDS SA, has been amongst the top 10 innovative SME consortia for its project idea “Hippocrates Farm” in the “Functional Food” category under the framework of “KATANA” accelerator program via crowd funding platform.
https://katanareward.opencircleproject.com/campaign/81/hippocrates-farm

Accreditations:
1. Certificate ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System
2.Certificate ISO 9001: 2015 Planning, Implementation & Evaluation of National & European Development Projects
3.Certificate ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety Management System
4.Affirmation of compliance by DIO Inspection and Certification Organization of Organic Products for IMPORT-STORAGE-TRADING of herbs, tea, chocolate, bars, rice bars, cereals, dried fruits

European Union granted projects:
1.H2020-INNOSUP-1-25-KATANA (Accelerator) “Hippocrates Farm”
2.Erasmus+ KA2 VET SuperGREENLABELFoods: Harmonization & Certification of “superfoods”
3.Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances "SPARKLE: Sustainable Precision Agriculture: Research and Knowledge for Learning how to be an agri-Entrepreneur"