As in the 2019 edition the Iberoleum Guide once again ranked Goya gourmet extra virgin olive oils among the best in Spain, awarding Goya Único 96 points, as best national extra virgin coupage. Read more
Last February, the Goya Spain factory in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville), participated in the special informative supplement about extra virgin olive oil published in ABC newspaper, “Andalucía tierra de oro verde”.
Here you can see the report and the publicity about our factory in the ABC special.
Last February Goya España factory in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville) hosted the 1st Goya Europa Commercial Convention 2020. Read more
The quality of Goya extra virgin olive oils continues to win awards in the USA. Read more
The Unicode Consortium, the organization in charge of standardizing the characters used on the majority of software worldwide, has published the list of the new emojis which will be available on mobile devices from March, among which the table olive finally appears.
In the set of foods, users will have 8 new emojis, notable among which is the table olive, responding to the request from Spain, one of the main commercial drivers of its production and export.
With regard to its visual appearance, the Unicode Consortium has worked with different suggestions – a pitted olive, a pepper-filled olive, or an olive on a branch with a leaf – although it has not yet agreed the final design.
Version 13.0 has a total of 117 new icons added to those existing on WhatsApp, Android, iOS and Twitter: a total of 62 new original images and 55 variations of gender and skin color of these and other existing emojis.
On the 29th of January, Goya Spain factory in Seville received the visit from four members of the South Korean national artistic Taekwondo team, coinciding with the exhibition tour they are carrying out in different Spanish provinces.
During the visit, athletes Shin Huichan, Lee Soyeon, Cho Dayoung and You Soobean were able to discover every detail of the olive and olive oil production processes for themselves.
After the visit to the factory, the athletes visited the Sevillian municipality of Coripe where the first of the exhibitions took place.
As is becoming a regular occurrence, Goya Gourmet Oils have featured prominently at the Madrid Fusión Trade Fair. In the 2020 edition, Único and Organics extra virgin olive oils were used in the recipes prepared by the executive chef of Goya Foods, Fernando Desa, during the Showcooking “Unanue: the cuisine of yesterday and today”.
Desa took a trip through the history of the Unanue family with four preparations: grilled scallop served with different shoots: a Caribbean dish of ripe bananas, picadillo, egg and a ajilimójili sauce; crispy ceviche with passion fruit; and a taco filled with pig tripe, cabbage and guacamole salad and jalapeño and agave sauce.
Along with the preparation of the dishes, the Goya Food stand at Madrid Fusión held different extra virgin olive oil tastings, allowing attendees of this gastronomic trade fair to discover the quality of the Goya premium extra virgin oils for themselves.
Goya Foods 
offers $20,000 Culinary Arts and Food Science Scholarships, granted annually, to four students nationwide entering their freshman year of college with an undergraduate degree in culinary arts and/or a food science.
Goya’s Culinary Arts Scholarship is available on a competitive basis to students entering an accredited two-year or four-year institution. Scholarships are in the amount of $5,000 awarded per academic year starting in Fall 2020 and are renewable for up to three additional years provided the student remains eligible to receive funding, totaling $20,000.
“Goya has a long-standing history of giving back to the community and implementing educational programs to help strengthen the development and growth of our youth and educational systems,” says Peter Unanue, Executive Vice President of Goya Foods. “The Goya Scholarship Fund acts, not only as a symbol of our appreciation to our community, but helps promote the importance of higher education”.
Applications are due no later than February 17, 2020.
For more information and to apply, please log onto https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/goyaculinary/
(Information by Hispanic PR Newswire)
Goya Foods has been present at the IX Spain-USA Business Forum, a business meeting organized last november by the Seville Chamber of Commerce, to analyze US trade policies. Read more
On November 30, RTVE‘s “Fábrica de Ideas” broadcast a report about the history of Goya Foods, where Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya, the America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, and leader in Latin American food and condiments, analyzes the history of the company founded in 1936, by his grandfather, Prudencio Unanue.
Goya Foods manufactures, packages, and distributes over 2,500 high-quality food products from Spain, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Goya products have their roots in the culinary traditions of Hispanic communities around the world. Goya Foods has 11 factories in 4 countries, because “If It´s Goya…It has to be good”.