Greek Canners Association

The Greek Canners Association (ΕΚΕ) was founded in 1996. Its aim was to represent business organizations that produced canned fruits (mainly peach, but also pear, apricot and fruit cocktail). Today, the company represents 17 organizations that produce not only canned fruits as mentioned before, but also peach and apricot puree and frozen fruits. Most of the facilities are located in the prefectures of Pella, Imathia and Larissa. Fruits are sourced from the prefectures of Pella, Imathia, Florina, Pieria, Larissa, Argolida and Korinthia. More than 12.000 families of farmers produce these fruits, while more than 10.000 work in the factories, whether full-time or seasonally. The final products of our members are almost all exported (more than 98%). This results in annual income of 300.000.000€ – 400.000.000€ for Greece. Greece continually ranks first in the list of canned peach exporting countries worldwide. EKE is a very active member of PROFEL, the European Association of fruit and vegetable processors and has been representing Greece in the World Canned Deciduous Fruit Conference since 1996.