Greek Exporters

The company’s name is derived from two ancient Greek words – “fero” – to carry, and “oikos” – house, which when combined, translates literally as “I carry my own house”, an apt description of the snail.

Fereikos is focused on two principles: people and quality.

During the years we invest in R&D in order to develop new methods and know how in the farming sector and innovative products.

Not only did we revolutionize the snail farming, but while doing this we have developed a new business model for the primary sector.

We believe in synergies with people and companies that share the same values
such as:

- Continuous improvement

- Innovation

- Environmental responsibility

- Respect of tradition

- Promote culinary excellence

- Promote a healthy Mediterranean diet and nutrition

Our mission is to deliver certified products of different snail species all year around while maintaining highest quality standards.

Fereikos has been honored with several awards for the services and products.

Who would have thought that those cute creatures that were entertaining us when we were little kids would be now such an important part of our lives, both personally and professionally?

My name is Maria and together with my sister Penny we founded Fereikos in 2007.

Since 2007 we were gaining knowledge and experience in different areas in several countries of this small world.

We both studied our first passion, many foreign languages and then due to our will to come back to Greece and create something on our own we decided to deal with something we were so familiar with since our childhood but at the same time so unknown according to our educational background till then.

The idea came a winter night in a fancy restaurant in beautiful Switzerland. Seemed that many people were enjoying their Escargots à la Bourguignonne and I decided to try them as well.

In the same time, Penny called me and as soon as I told her I was eating snails she was amazed and when I told her the price I paid for just 12 pieces, she was shocked and joked about collecting snails in her backyard and export them.

This joke became serious since she decided to enroll in an agribusiness and agritourism course and I continued to study marketing and sales. After a lot of study, a long market research we started with our first farm carrying our home, our Fereikos.