The quality of Goya premium extra virgin olive oils continues to receive international awards. Thus, Goya Organics and Único extra virgin olive oils have been included in the “The World’s Best Olive Oils 2017-2018” ranking, one of the most prestigious olive oil quality rankings with the best EVOOs in the world.
Goya “Organics”, with 66 points, ranks as the 4th best organic extra virgin in the world. Along with this award, Goya Unico extra virgin olive oil, with 57 points, ranks the Top 20 of WBOO. On the other hand, the Goya Spain factory in Seville is ranked 5th in the organic EVOO companies and 7th in the general classification of extra virgin olive oil companies.
The WBOO ranking was created in 2012 by the German taster Heiko Schmidt. It is based on the results of the main international competitions of extra virgin olive oil in both hemispheres. Nowadays, it has become a reference of quality when collecting and classifying the results obtained in the most important competitions worldwide.
The FIAB, Federation representing the Spanish food and beverage industry, has launched the third edition of the guide “Spain’s food manufacturers”, where, as in previous editions, Goya olive oils, olives and gazpacho have a prominent place. This report, prepared in collaboration with #alimentosdespaña, carries out a complete analysis of the national agri-food industry.
“Spanish cuisine’s growing strength, currently at the top of the international scene, along with the millions of tourists who visit our country every year – discovering a rich and varied food culture -, have contributed to creating a very positive image of the Spanish Food and Drink Industry”, highlights the FIAB.
From Goya Spain, we thank FIAB for the promotion opportunity it offers to our products as leaders in the Spanish agri-food industry.
Goya Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oils continue to win international awards. Thus, Goya Unico and Organics extra virgin olive oils have been the unique EVOOs from Spain awarded in the second edition of Sanremo Masters of Olive Oils International Contest 2018 (Italy).
With the participation of a total of 80 olive oils from 11 countries, Goya Unico Extra Virgin Olive Oil has obtained two gold medals in “Blend” and “Intense Fruity” categories and a bronze one corresponding to the “general prize of the jury”.
Goya Organics has achieved a silver medal in the “Organics” category and a bronze one within the “Intense Fruity”. “These awards are the highlight of the awards obtained by our olive oils in the first half of the year, a reward for our commitment to offer extra virgin olive oils of the highest quality to our consumers”, highlight from the Management of the factory located in Seville.
Organized for the first time in 2016, the Sanremo Masters of Olive Oils International Contest 2018 seeks to promote the knowledge and use of extra virgin olive oil in a correct, healthy and positive way, extending its culture and informing consumers about its benefits for the health.
During the recent visit of Goya Foods to the factory of Goya Spain, the workers of the Sevillian factory have posed along with the members of the Unanue family dressed with the equipment of the Spanish National Football Team, to give them all their support in the World Cup of Russia 2018.
“The great Goya family want to send all our support to the Spanish Football Team in their next matches in Russia and we hope that our players will repeat the same success as eight years ago, when Spain was crowned world champion”, has highlighted the Goya Foods´s CEO, Bob Unanue.
In the visit to Goya Spain on June 19th and 20th, the Goya Foods´s CEO was accompanied by the Goya Europe´s CEO, William Unanue, the Goya Foods´s vice president, Joseph Perez, and the Goya Foods´s finance vice president, Miguel Lugo.
The Goyeneche Auditorium of the Spanish Olympic Committee has recently hosted the VIII Symposium on Prevention in Football and Sports, an event for sports health where Elías Picado Fernández, general manager of Goya Europa, collected the Corazones Solidarios 2018 awarded to Goya by the contribution of the company in nutrition and good nutrition with products such as “Organics” Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Coconut Water for a healthy diet.
The Symposium was inaugurated by the president of the COE, 
Alejandro Blanco, who emphasized in his speech intervention “an unquestionable fact as it is the success of Spanish sport thanks, also, to symposiums like this one, where different postures of prevention are exposed that immediately result in the health of the athletes, thanks to the conclusions that are drawn from all of them”.
Before the end of the day, Dr. Bartolomé Beltrán presented the Corazón de Oro awards to more than twenty entities and personalities from the media, education, sports and healthcare world: Alejandro Blanco, president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, received the Special Prize. They also received it; the director of TVE, José Antonio Sánchez; the founder and president of the Restalia Group, José María Fernández-Capitán; the director of the Civil Guard, José Manuel Holgado; and the CEO of A3Media Televisión, Javier Bardají.
On the other hand, the Corazones Solidarios 2018 awards went to Fernando Torres, Emilio Butragueño, José Luis Álvarez-Sala Walther, José Ángel de la Casa, Juan Blanco, Emilio de Andrés, Joaquín Poch Brotos, Jesús Manuel Peraza Casajús, José María Villalón , Enrique Ruiz Escudero, Antonio Fructuoso López Gómez and the general director of Goya Europe, Elías Picado.
During the day, speakers and attendees tasted Goya products and received a gift box of our “Organics” Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Together with our distributor in Japan Imai Limited, we have been present at the “Olive Japan Show 2018”, an event organized by Olive Japan and The Olive Oil Sommelier Association of Japan.
From the 8th to the 10th of June, we have had a stand in this exhibition located in front of the Tokyo Futako-Tamagawa station, where visitors have been able to see the range of Goya Spain products, as well as our “Organics” premium oils and “Único”, awarded with two gold medals at the Olive Japan 2018 International Competition among more than 600 oil brands. These awards are in addition to the recognitions achieved by the two Goya gourmet oils in different national and international competitions.
Goya Spain products consolidate its presence Australia.
Thus, along with distributor Alpina Fine Food & Beverages, attendees at the event “Sabores Spanish Festival” organized by the Hispano-Australian Chamber of Commerce in Sydney, could taste products such as Gazpacho, olives and olive oils.
Japan Olive Oil Prize has presented its awards to the best oils 2018,where Goya Unico has received the Blend award “Best in Class”.
The presentation ceremony of these awards that recognizes the excellence of the products of the Meditarranean culture, took place at the end of last May during the seminar on virgin olive oils organized by JOOP during a cruise from Yokohama to Shanghai.
The JOOP awards are synonymous with excellence and impartiality, and are awarded annually by an internationally recognized jury panel.
Premium Goya® extra virgin olive oils have participated in the stand “A whole world to discover” that Olive Oil from Spain has taken to the Salon de Gourmets 2018 held in Madrid, and in which the Interprofesional del Aceite has shown the inexhaustible versatility of olive oils in the kitchen and outside of it.
“A whole world to discover” has had room for cooking, but also for beauty, nutrition and, for the first time, cocktails, showing the aromas, flavors and textures that extra virgin olive oil can provide cocktails with and without alcohol. These innovative cocktail proposals have been designed by Héctor Henche, renowned creative director of Fizz Bartenders.
The Olive Oils from Spain proposal has been completed with a classic at the International Salon of the Club de Gourmets, the most spectacular Oleoteca in the world, which reached a record this year, close to 400 references of extra virgin olive oils representing all the producing areas, and in which premium Goya olive oils have had a prominent place. Thus, they have participated in the Oleoteca de Oliva de Oliva de España; International Oleoteca of Europe; International Oleoteca of the USA and the Oleoteca International of Asia (visibility in China, Taiwan and Japan.
The third edition of Iberoleum Guide has recognized Goya® “Organics” Extra Virgin Olive Oil as the best coupage in Spain for the 2017-2018 campaign. This recognition is added to the 2nd place ranked by this Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) in this guide of the best spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oils, with a total of 95.5 points.
Goya “Organics” Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a blend of the Picual, Hojiblanca and Picuda varieties which guarantee an extraordinary sensory experience: an intense fruity green aroma, with notes of herbs and green leaves, hints of tomato, apple, green almonds and artichokes, a balance between a bitter and peppery taste on the palate, harmonious and elegant.
This recognition is a reward for more than four decades of effort by Goya® Spain to offer the consumer EVOOs made and packaged with the best extra virgin olive oils from Spain. This aspect is confirmed by the Management area of the factory located in Seville: “The know-how of a packer lies in the selection and production of complex and harmonious coupages ‘authentic recipes of up to 5 varietals’ as we do in Goya Spain”.
The recognition of the IberOleum Guide to an extra virgin olive oil as the best coupage – comparable to what an olive oil mill would have for a monovarietal-, is the greatest satisfaction of all packers.
Together with “Organics”, the IberOleum Guide has also recognized Goya “Único” Extra Virgin Olive Oil, as the 13th best EVOO in Spain, with a total of 91.8 points.
