Our Company

Yoleni’s! The leading Greek delicatessen was established in 2012 by a passionate team of highly motivated professionals who love Greece and wish to promote its culinary wealth internationally and give everyone the chance to discover, taste and enjoy the unique traditional products of Greece through an integrated customer experience.

Yoleni’s is a worldwide well established brand name with extensive know how and strategic partnerships with major companies of the food industry, promoting globally the authentic Greek Mediterranean gastronomy all around the world.

Yoleni’s extended variety of products that are staples of the internationally acclaimed Mediterranean Diet and key part of the Greek cultural heritage, consists of more than 1000 certified traditional artisanal products and natural ingredients of acknowledged nutritional value.

Yoleni’s operates in the European Union since 2014 through its subsidiary Yoleni’s Hellas SMLTD (based in Greece) and in the United States of America since 2015 through its Master Franchisee, Yoleni’s USA LLC.

Yoleni’s opened a model flagship store at the heart of Athens (Kolonaki) in November 2016 and in December 2016 Yoleni’s granted its first Territory Master Franchise in the U.S market for the area of New England. The first Yoleni’s store in the United States opened in May 2018, at the Providence City, Rhode Island.

Our Vision

Yoleni’s vision is to bring the authentic Greek Mediterranean food worldwide through our experiential concept stores. Yoleni’s aim is to make available -for every citizen of the world- the unique traditional artisanal products of Greece of high nutritional value and certified quality (PDO, PGI, TSG), authentic Greek recipes, great food values for the whole family and true shopping experiences. Yoleni’s is committed to preserve the pure, the classic and the timeless traditional Greek products, most of them being staples of the internationally acclaimed Mediterranean Diet and a key part of the Greek cultural heritage.

Our Values

Yoleni’s is committed to fairness and equal opportunity to our employees and partners. It’s how we do business, and it includes integrity, passion for perfection, innovation and respect for our most valuable assets, our people and our partners. Yoleni’s dedication is to delighting customers resulting by responsible food sourcing, through involvement in local affairs and best customer service according to the Greek hospitality standards.

Our goal – a Shopping Experience

In a Yoleni’s store thousands of lives are touched every day. Families, children, parents, couples, singles, working people in a hurry, seniors with time to chat, coffee groups, book clubs, even people working on their laptops or socializing through their smart phones. All these customers have their own reason for coming to Yoleni’s and their own expectation. Yoleni’s treats every customer as the most important customer and our goal is to make everyone feel welcome, valued and appreciated, and having a great experience, no matter what brought them to our store.

Our Strengths

Yoleni's strength is due to our:

• Commitment to quality and our unique, innovative and evolving product line
• Brand contemporary image, improved store designs and top notch customer service
• Impactful advertising, in-store promotion and digital marketing
• Strong, experienced leadership team

Awards & Recognitions

Yoleni’s has achieved to win several awards. Yoleni’s flagship store excelled at the Εstia Awards 2017 and Εstia Awards 2018 among many famous brands in the sector of restaurant/catering services and was awarded as a Food Business Innovator – Exemplar Concept store (2017) and as the Best Concept Store, Interior Design & Flagship Store (2018). Other awards received were for Best use of Social Media Retail (GOLD), Best in-house Client Social Media Team (SILVER), Best e-Store Atmosphere and Best e-Strategy.

Still, the most prominent award for Yoleni’s was the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) 2015, (http://www.hellenicaward.com/en/) with the highest distinction among 730 business plans.HEA is funded and administered by the Libra Group on behalf of The Hellenic Initiative, and other Greece-focused funds and organizations (see more regarding the aim of the Award at www.hellenicaward.com). The HEA award for Yoleni’s includes mentoring and consulting, business services support as well as extensive support and business development tools, through a global network of experts and supporters.

Nutrition and Health

Yoleni’s offers unique traditional artisanal products of Greece of high nutritional value and certified quality (PDO, PGI, TSG). We work hard to offer an extensive variety of authentic Greek recipes and a lot of great food choices for the whole family. Most of our products are staples of the internationally acclaimed Mediterranean Diet and a key part of the Greek cultural heritage. Yoleni’s provides nutrition information, product and producer’s history and more than 350 video recipes from 10 famous Greek cuisines, both in-store and on www.yolenis.com. Through our website customers can search for nutritional information or the products needed for a desired menu and watch the preparation of the recipe for their meal. Yoleni’s provides fresh food and products that our customers will not only enjoy them, but also they’ll feel good about serving them to their family members and friends.