The Founding of Our Brand

Goya Foods opened its doors in 1936 in New York City when Don Prudencio Unanue and his wife, Carolina, immigrants from Spain, started to sell authentic and high-quality Spanish food essentials, including popular sardines, olives, and tasty olive oil to local Hispanic families.

Goya Spain Opens Its Doors

In 1974, to satisfy the great demand of the American market, Goya Spain started operations in Alcalá de Guadaíra in Seville, establishing our first olive oil processing and packing plant.

The Expansion of Goya®

Through the years, our company has steadily kept growing, expanding its capabilities to meet the ever-growing global demand. In 1985, the company did a big expansion with a new olive processing factory, improving its olive processing and filling machinery. Then, in 1998 came another big renovation, and since then Goya Spain has become a first-class modern industrial complex, a sophisticated industry model, specialized in olive and olive oil processing and packing.

Goya® Today

GOYA® Olive Oils are consumed daily in thousands of homes in more than 20 countries, like the United States, China, Japan, Mexico, and others. Presently, we keep one of the highest quality standards in the industry, from production to tasting and sampling, because we have the best team with the experience to select the best oils.

Besides quality, we ensure the consistency of each of our oils. Year after year, we go through more than 200,000 samples, and in the end, we only select less than 100 to create the specific mix of GOYA® Olive Oils.

ChefsBest Award

The ChefsBest® Excellence Award is awarded to those brands who exceed the quality standards set by independent professional chefs. This American award certifies and highlights high-quality products in the market. GOYA® Olive Oils have won this quality award since 2014 to the present.

NAOOA

The North American Olive Oil Association (NAOOA) has also awarded us with their seal of approval. This high-quality award is the only certification that takes samples from different retail outlets and verifies if they have the purity parameters established by the International Olive Council (IOC), the authority that establishes the quality standards for the olive oil industry at the global level.

Olive Oil From Spain

Spain is a world leader in the production and export of olive oil. We are proud that our oils are 100% from Andalucía, Spain, and that we never mix them with oils from other countries. We press our olives at the right moment, just before they change color, to preserve their great flavor and benefits. We have the latest in technology and modern processes to produce oils of the highest quality, in addition to a team of experts who carefully pick the olives when they’re just right.