Our Story

Our Story

Passion

The love and respect to our land, our olive trees, and traditions while going above and beyond what is expected of us. Our Olive Oil is the reflection of that Passion!
Timeline

Our History

1890

The 1st Generation

The 1st generation of the Pierrakos family, Vasilis Pierrakos first began olive farming in Skala, Laconia, Greece.

1940

The 2nd Generation

The 2nd generation, Diamantis Pierrakos continued to farm olives in succession to the family business.

1970

The 3rd Generation

The 3rd generation, Vasilios Pierrakos took over the family business.

2005

Diamantis, Dino, and Vince founded a company "Mediterranean Brothers Co., Ltd." together.

2008

The 4th Generation

The 4th generation, Diamantis and Dino, decided to actively participate in their olive farm management in Greece.

2009 January

Pierrakos family decided to sell their olive oil in the U.S. Vasilios and Diamatis had bottled their very first batch.

2009 Spring

Diamantis and Dino had officially found OUR FAMILY’S OLIVE OIL LLC, which would eventually become the Laconiko Extra Virgin Olive Oil brand.

2009 Spring

Laconiko got the first international medal at the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition.

2014

Laconiko got the first Gold medal at the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition.

2015

Laconiko got the first Gold medal at the New York International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition.

2016

Laconiko got the first Gold medal at Oil China Competition.

2018

Laconiko got the first Best in Greece at Athena International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition and the first Gold medal at Olive Japan.

2019

Laconiko got the first Gold Medal at Japan Olive Oil Prize and the first Gold medal at Mediterranean International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition in Israel.

2019 February

Laconiko established Laconiko Asia Team leading by Vince Wei as Operations Asia / Crew Leader.

2019 February

Laconiko Asia formed Japan Team at Tokyo.

2019 July

Laconiko Asia formed Taiwan Team at Taipei.

2020 February

Laconiko Asia formed Korea Team at Seoul.

2020

Laconiko has gotten 148 awards from the world’s most prestigious and competitive contests in the United States, Italy, Israel, Japan, Spain and China.

2021 January

Laconiko Asia Team is planning to launch the Laconiko olive oils in Japan and Korea first and will expand to other Asia countries.