From 1945 to today
Tripoli Dairy is a family business that has been active in the dairy industry since 1945. During those difficult post-war years, Georgios Papadopoulos and his wife Angeliki managed to set up a small cheese factory in Chotousa Arcadia, based on the rich livestock farming of the region. The difficulties were great, but the determination and hard work that distinguished them never betrayed them. Thus, the traditional Papadopoulos feta cheese took its first timid steps in the grocery stores of the entire prefecture. With art, passion and respect for tradition, it managed over the years to transform into one of the largest dairy industries in Arcadia, while maintaining its family character.
Their son Vasilis, having gained unique experience, creates a larger space, encouraging both his sons George and Giannis to follow in his footsteps. Thus, in 1998, the cheese factory moved its facilities to a technologically modern factory in Kapsia Mantineia. The company has a privately owned milk processing factory of 2100 sq.m. within plot 15 acres with state-of-the-art high-tech mechanical equipment for the production of high-quality cheese products. Our facilities operate a modern, fully equipped chemical and microbiological food control laboratory, as well as a complete biological cleaning facility.
Our distribution center is also located there, from where our products are distributed daily throughout Arcadia by our privately owned fleet of vehicles for the best and fastest service to our customers. We also collaborate with local special representatives throughout Greece, providing the opportunity for consumers who have supported and chosen us all these years to find our products in every corner of Greece.
So in the heart of Mantinean land with absolute respect for the consumer and for Greek tradition, we manufacture cheese products from genuine sheep and goats milk of incomparable quality and unique nutritional value.
Cheesemaking Tradition and Mythology
Greece is a country with a long history and traditions that are lost in the depths of the ages. Some of them refer to milk and its products. For example, for ancient Greeks, milk was considered sacred food because Zeus, the father of the gods of Olympus, was raised with the milk of the nymph Amalthia, while according to Greek mythology the art of cheese making was given to the gods of Olympus.
The roots of sheep and goat farming in Arcadia are lost in the myths of antiquity. Since then, livestock farming in Arcadia has not changed its character and Papadopoulos SA considers it its duty to preserve and promote it with excellent quality traditional products.
So, we offer you products that continue the rich and long-standing Greek cheese-making history, with a pure and authentic flavor that awakens the memory and honors the tradition.





