REZOS BRANDS ANONYMI EMPORIKI ETERIA IDON DIATROFIS

Their core work

Rezos Brands is a Greek food company based in Patras that specializes in food product development, processing, and commercialization — particularly in the snack and berry product segments. They bring industry expertise in food drying technologies (osmotic dehydration, freeze drying, microwave vacuum drying), food safety testing, and sustainable food manufacturing. Their H2020 involvement shows them acting as a real-world testbed and end-user for research innovations in water circularity, short food supply chains, and healthy snack development. As a food SME, they bridge the gap between laboratory food science and commercial product lines.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Rezos Brands entered H2020 in 2020 with a broader technology-adoption profile — participating in digital capacity building (SMART4ALL) and industrial water circularity with AI-driven demand forecasting (AccelWater). By 2021, their focus sharpened decisively toward core food science: berry processing technologies, healthy snack development, and direct farmer-consumer supply chains. The shift from technology consumer to food innovation leader is underscored by their move to a coordinator role in FRIETS.

Rezos Brands is consolidating around sustainable, health-oriented food processing — expect future work in functional foods, clean-label snacks, and circular food manufacturing.

How they like to work

Rezos Brands primarily joins projects as a participant (3 of 4 projects), contributing industry perspective and real-world testing capacity to research-driven consortia. Their single coordinator role in FRIETS (an MSCA-RISE project) signals growing confidence and leadership ambition. With 66 unique partners across 26 countries from just 4 projects, they operate in large, diverse consortia — suggesting they are comfortable as an industry voice in multi-partner research environments.

Despite only 4 projects, Rezos Brands has built an impressively wide network of 66 partners spanning 26 countries, indicating participation in large international consortia. Their reach is thoroughly pan-European with no apparent geographic clustering beyond their Greek base.

What sets them apart

Rezos Brands offers something rare in EU consortia: a real food manufacturing SME that can take research outputs from lab to product shelf. Their combination of advanced drying technologies, healthy product formulation, and sustainability assessment (LCA/LCC) makes them a credible demonstration and validation partner. For consortium builders, they fill the critical "industry end-user" slot with genuine food processing capability, not just advisory input.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FRIETS
  Their only coordinator role — a research staff exchange project on sustainable berry processing that combines multiple advanced drying technologies with health-focused product development.
• AccelWater
  Largest single funding (EUR 386K) and most technically ambitious project, applying AI-based demand prediction and waste valorization to food industry water circularity.