COMPANY PROFILE

REZOS BRANDS S.A. is an agri food SME, with expertise in superfoods and functional food oriented, which established in 1983 in Patras, Western . The company has adopted the vertical business model: “from the Farm to Fork”, which includes cultivation, harvesting, research, process, packaging, warehouse storing, marketing, distribution.

We have invested in organic cultivation of superfoods (sea buckthorn, echinacea, mountain tea sideritis scardica, pilot cultivations etc) at our own farm located at the center of the protected area of Natura 2000 network under the name Antichasia Ori-. (Central Greece), by adopting the principles of Precision Agriculture with soil sensors, smart irrigation systems and other agri-technologies in order to monitor our organic cultivation, analyze our highest nutritional value crops & optimize the functionality of our products.

We use the innovative osmotic dehydration technology (non-thermal procedure), cold plasma applications at the farm & crops, so that we keep all & maximize the goodness, vitamins & bioactive compounds of our superfruits.

We develop functional foods & juices and we undertake researches regarding nanoencapsulation of bioactive ingredients, byproducts and their use to everyday food products.

Philosophy of the company is the continuous improvement in the fields of research & development on farming and food, sales, marketing, distribution, as a long-term investment. Reliability, stability and respect lead its way.

Rezos Brands is designing and will invest in the construction of a fully equipped food science laboratory in order to make pilots on extraction, dehydration, preservation, encapsulation but also to proceed with nutritional – microbial analysis of Rezos Brands functional food products.

From FARM to FORM

Operational Sectors

The company is divided into 3 operational sectors:

Commercial, Distribution & Logistics sector

Main activity is the distribution and the development of national sales networks of imported and local food & beverages products, operating in the Greek market. Provides a well operated logistics network, having adopted up to date monitoring and systems, from the purchase stage to the delivery. Boosting sales by Merchandising. We invest at the most modern warehouse management, commercial management software, aiming to ensure customer’s satisfaction both in terms of quality and time of delivery to them.

Farming sector

We invested in our multifunctional farm at Meteora (Central Greece), offering a unique opportunity to upscale sea-buckthorn (hippophae) as the top Greek super fruit. At our farm we adopted the vertical business model of super fruits cultivation: from the farm to the fork. Our mission is to cultivate, process and market, the best super fruits starting from sea buckthorn and Greek mountain tea, that have been proven scientifically to benefit the human body and mind. Through this vertical business model, we aspire to launch to the European markets, innovative functional foods based on Greek Mediterranean super fruits and aromatic herbs.

European R&D Department

The department carries out research activities in order to upscale existing products and services towards the development of new products and services oriented to the European and global markets. Main activities: • participation & implementation of EU projects (H2020, Erasmus+, PRIMA, LIFE, BBI, EEA Grants, ENI-MED etc.) • researches on new functional foods & drinks, food sciences & food technologies • implementation of pilots/demonstration on smart farming & precision agriculture • functional – novel food products design • implementation of pilots/demonstration on smart farming & precision agriculture • conducting laboratory researches on • innovative non thermal dehydration methods (osmosis, freeze drying, cold plasma etc.) • extraction technics • nano/micro encapsulation methodology • developing projects on personalized nutrition, plant-based proteins, 3D food printing for special target groups (eg. people with diabetes) towards metabolomics in the farm, nutrigenomics etc.

Main Research Areas

Our project proposals mainly focus at: ✓ excellence in funding proposals ✓ impact of the proposal on the company ✓ effectiveness of implementation

European R&D department implements several EU projects (see table below).

Furthermore, the company was selected by a series of lead partners organization to participate in consortia under a variety of H2020 calls and European Initiatives, such as BBI, H2020 SFS/ICT/FTI/INNOSUP, LIFE PRIMA, EEA Grants, Adrion-MED, Erasmus+ etc.

European Union granted projects

Project Applicant/ EU Programme Year identification or Title of the project Beneficiary Name Contract Number LIFE ENVision-Enhance, Nurture and vitalize the LIFE Environment LIFE ACTION crops to increase yield 2019 and Resource SCL ITALIA SPA GRANTS and plant healthy Efficiency growth (Associate Partner) SMART4ALL- SELFSUSTAINED CROSS TECHNOLOGIKO BORDER CUSTOMIZED DT-ICT-01-2019: EKPAIDEFTIKO H2020-DT-2018- CYBERPHYSICAL SYSTEM 2019 Smart Anything IDRYMA (TEI) 2020 EXPERIMENTS FOR Everywhere DYTIKIS ELLADAS- CAPACITY BUILDING GR AMONG EUROPEAN STAKEHOLDERS NextGen4SC – Preparing DEKAPLUS Erasmus+ 2018-3-CY02- the next generation of 2019 BUSINESS SERVICES KA2 Youth KA205-001383 Supply Chain - CY staff H2020-INNOSUP- H2020_KATANA/ REZOS BRANDS SA 1-25-KATANA 2017 No. Grant Hippocrates Farm - GR (Accelerator) Agreement 691478 SPARKLE: Sustainable Erasmus+ UNIVERSITA DEGLI Precision Agriculture: 2017 - 3519 / 001 - Knowledge 2017 STUDI DI FIRENZE Research and Knowledge 001 Alliances (UNIFI) - IT for Learning how to be an agri-Entrepreneur Hellenic SuperGREENLABELFoods: Agricultural Erasmus+ 2017-1-EL01- Harmonization & 2017 Organization- KA2 VET KA202-036224 Certification of “Demeter” (HAO- “superfoods” DEMETER) - GR

PHAEDON - TRANSPARENCY AND TRACEABILITY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGIES: SEA BUCKTHORN CASE. The PHAEDON project aims at enhancing transparency in the agri-food sector through an innovative and state-of-the-art food traceability system which supports all the stakeholders and processes of the value chain, in all stages from production tο consumption. More specifically, the project will design, implement and evaluate a fully decentralized traceability system for the agri-food sector supply chain, and specifically for the supply-chain of the Sea Buckthorn from Meteora, using Distributed Ledger Technologies, Edge Computing and IoT. The system will provide food tracking (keeping record of the product at each stage) and food tracing (reconstructing the history of the data recorded by the tracking process) functionalities. At the same time, additional functionalities will be implemented for the two main end-user categories, (the professionals who are involved in the production of the food product and the consumers) including monitoring, alerting and feedback mechanisms related to food safety. The lifecycle of PHAEDON is organized in 10 trimesters (30 months) anο includes a series of technical and non-technical tasks so as to assure smooth and effective execution and progress.

LIFE ENVision

ENVision project aims at realizing and demonstrating the benefits, both for the crops and for the environment, of an innovative bio stimulant formulation, based on the EnNuVi technology, enabling to Enhance the performance of the fertilizer by improving the microelements availability, to Nurture crops with a natural carbon source and to Vitalize crops by including greater tolerance and resistance to different environmental stress. In our view, ENVision project will develop a new bio stimulant that will allow us bettering the plant defense system against abiotic and biotic stresses for increasing crop healthy and rising the crops’ productivity.

SMART4ALL

SMART4ALL builds capacity amongst European stakeholders via the development of selfsustained, cross-border experiments that transfer knowledge and technology between academia and industry. It targets CLEC CPS and the IoT and combines a set of unique characteristics that join together under a common vision different cultures, different policies, different geographical areas and different application domains. SMART4ALL brings a new paradigm for revealing “hidden innovation treasures” from SEE and helping them to find the path to market via new, innovative commercial products.

NextGen4SC

The fundamental element of the NextGen4SC project is that is aiming to create a Winning background for youth working in the supply chain/logistics sector, supporting them and empowering their involvement and competitiveness to the job sector, facilitating their preparation as the next generation of the supply Chain staff, to win the employment bet. The innovative character of this project is that is addressed not only to youth workers (which is its official target group) and has not only as aim to support them developing the relevant and high-quality skills and competences for working at the logistics sector or promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people.

Hippocrates Farm

Hippocrates Farm project is funded by H2020-INNOSUP-KATANA accelerator Crowdfunding project in supporting European SMEs in the agri-food supply chain. At Hippocrates Farm, we cultivate, process and market, the best organic sea buckthorn, as a pleasant everyday food, so that people can benefit the most out of it. The synthesis of our consortium is REZOS BRANDS S.A. a leading company in the super foods industry in Greece, that is distributing nationwide major global brands and national own brands, to top food retailers which also produce the product, NIG GmbH, a worldwide leading company in sea buckthorn R&D, that provides scientific and engineering knowledge, guarantying top quality and maximum functionality in all product development stages, and Organic 3S, an established Greek company in processing/packaging of organic foods and development of natural sweeteners. Our targets include our new investment in the research and the development of new innovative functional food products, a new product line with unique USP’s, the launching of our products to the Greek markets and finally the establishment of new European and international sales networks.

SPARKLE

SPARKLE project tries to close innovation divide on entrepreneurship and effective application of Sustainable precision agriculture (SPA) between research, agricultural enterprises (SME) and students. The profitable application of SPA requires new competencies and to shift from a mechanical model to a SPA model is necessary to have digital, high technology and business skills applied on a deeper agriculture competence. http://sparkle-project.eu/

SuperGREENLABELFoods

The SuperGREENLABELFoods project, which involves three different countries (Greece, Italy and Spain), aims at providing innovative methodologies to people directly involved with cultivation, collection, production, packaging and promotion of super- foods, aromatic-medical herbs and forest fruits, in order to enhance their basic professional skills as their ICT skills, through vocational training activities, and increase their competitiveness in the market. http://supergreenlabelfoods.eu/

REZOS BRANDS ACHIEVEMENTS

The Healthy Diet Awards 2020 of Greece organized for the first time where Excellence and innovation were awarded to products from companies promoting balanced and healthy nutrition. In a ceremony dedicated to the winners of this year’s awards, more than 300 senior business executives, representatives of Ministries, Institutions, Universities, Health and Nutrition Professionals, Healthy Food Influencers and Bloggers attended and applauded innovative foods, beverages and supplements, which can be integrated into a balanced diet model. REZOS BRANDS with its project Hippocrates Farm won 4 Awards. More specific:

Platinum Award in the category Organic Product of the Year Gold Award in the category Organic Food of the Year Silver Award in the category Healthy Beverage Products for Children Silver Award in the category “Free From or Low” Food Products

REZOS BRANDS, has been evaluated as “Innovative SME” between 450 SME’s from all EU Member States operating in the wholesale and food processing sectors), by IMP³rove –European Innovation Management Academy & National Documentation Center in Greece. The company’s performance was reported on Innovation Strategy, Innovation Organisation and Culture, Innovation Life Cycle Processes, Enabling Factors and Innovation Results. IMP³rove – European Innovation Management Academy offers innovation management support services on a global scale. With our holistic approach to innovation management, the comprehensive services offerings and the global network, we have set the standard for innovation management assessment and related support services. www.improve-innovation.eu

H2020-BBI-JTI-2018 proposal D-rAinBOW (BBI.2018.SO3.D5) that Rezos Brands S.A. is a partner, will receive the BBI Synergy Label Pilot which is an initiative that recognizes the value and excellence of Innovation Action proposals submitted under the H2020- BBIJTI- 2018 Call and qualified above the quality threshold. These proposals were deemed to deserve funding but did not receive it due to budget limits.

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

2018 European Business Awards: REZOS BRANDS S.A has been selected by virtue of its recognized Success, Innovation and Ethics as One to Watch representing Greece amongst the 55 participating Greek companies.

REZOS BRANDS’ project “Hippocrates Farm” was awarded the 1st place as innovative SME in Europe at “Functional Food” category, between 640 projects under H2020- INNOSUP “KATANA” project.

Our Premises

REZOS BRANDS SA is offering modern offices, warehouse facilities and logistic center, with top of the line storage and management systems. In the premises of Industrial Zone in Patras, are offered: a modern 4,400 sq.m offices, warehouse facilities and logistic centre, with top of the line storage and management systems. Moreover. We using a “ABERON” as warehouse management system (WMS), for Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) the Singular Enterprise (S.En.) ve.r 6.60 based on Oracle ver. 11 and the special ordering software, WinPOS. The three systems are bridged with support programs. Communication within corporate structures is supported by networks, wireless and structured cabling, covering all surfaces for use by all subsystems.

We also have a fleet of 14 ambient-chilled-frozen trucks.

The European Research & Development Department, based 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 and has certified by QSCert on quality management framework and system, which is compatible with the EN ISO 9001:2015 for “ Management & implementation of National and European projects”.

The muiltifunctional farm in Meteora has an area of 150,000 sq.m where we cultivate 3 varieties of sea buckthorn (with an affirmation of compliance by DIO Inspection and Certification Organization of Organic Products for organic cultivation), echinacea and mountain tea the variety of sideritis scardica. The farm is located in the center of the protected area of Natura 2000 network under the name Antichasia Ori-Meteora (ANTICHASIA ORI-METEORA GR 1440003). The Hippocrates Farm area is located 39 ° 49 '25.6' 'N and 21 ° 45' 10.7 '' E. The area in general has a very intense rocky ground. Agriculture may be difficult in this type of ground but particular characteristics and qualities of products (unique microclimate) are ideal for a sustainable farm. In our filed we have adopted Precision Agriculture techniques in order to monitor our field several sensing technologies are used by providing data

Additionally, the company has branches in Attica (Athens Office) based in Metamorphosi as well as in and Zante island. We have as sister company in Heraklion of Crete, of processing and packaging, that offers 1,300 sq.m of machinery and equipment. Each of multifunctional machines can package different configurations of a wide variety of product shapes & sizes.

Complementary Activities Our company activities include a pre-incubation facility on agripreneurship, agri-food, agri- tech startups, to which is provided mentoring, coaching & guidance towards the business approach of the startup ideas by connecting the startups with major hubs , clusters, chambers, universities, VC’s, companies & institutes accordingly. The Directors of REZOS BRANDS have been selected to evaluate startup ideas/companies on several initiatives, through: - Startup Weekend powered by Google Entrepreneurs - POS4work that aims to develop entrepreneurship, innovation and collaboration in order to build the future of Greece - Orange Grove helps startups and it is a renowned initiative of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Athens - Innovation Challenge enabled by Vodafone business

Strategic Partners and Collaborators

REZOS BRANDS is a Member of

• Pan-Hellenic Association of Industrial Business Enterprises (PASIVE) • Association of Businesses Established in Patras Industrial Area (SEVIPA) • the Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Achaia Prefecture • NBG Business Seeds (by National Bank of Greece)Aroma Hub Innovation Hub – Patras Technological Park Strategic partners

• Research Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ITE-HT) of FORTH • Federation of Hellenic Agricultural Organization – DEMETER (Ministry of Agriculture) • Federation of Hellenic Food industries (SEVT) • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -Department of Agriculture • National Technical University of Athens –Chemical Engineering & food technology • University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department • University of Patras, School of Medicine • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Chemical Engineering Department

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.

Accreditations & Certifications

Certificate ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System Certificate ISO 9001: 2015 Management & implementation of National and European projects Certificate ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety Management System for “Storage and distribution of food ambient, cooling and freezing temperatures” (by QSCert). Documentary Evidence by DIO Inspection and Certification Organization of Organic Products for wholesale of organic sea buckthorn berries, osmotic sea buckthorn, sea buckthorn juice. 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”.

Company’s administrative data

PIC NUMBER 915069677 REZOS BRANDS ΑΝΩΝΥΜΗ ΕΜΠΟΡΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΙΑ Full legal name (national language) ΕΙΔΩΝ ΔΙΑΤΡΟΦΗΣ REZOS BRANDS ANONYMI EMPORIKI ETERIA Full legal name (Latin characters) IDON DIATROFIS Acronym REZOS BRANDS S.A. Address Industrial Area of Patras, 25200 196 New National Road Patras- Athens, 26443, European R&D Department Patras, Greece Country Greece Region Western Greece, Achaia Website www.rezosbrands.com E-mail [email protected] Telephone +30 2610 423021, +30 2610 647146 Skype EuropeanR&D_RezosBrands Type of organisation Private/ SME VAT Number EL 093579435 Registration Number 035549116000