Experience and dedication to customer service 

The butcher store of Apostolos Papadopoulos Meat Company has been operating since 1939 in the Municipal Market of Xanthi and serves the retail customers, residents and visitors of the city on a daily basis. 

It offers the whole range of company’s products:

  • fresh Greek veal, beef, pork, sheep and goat meat, which comes from the company’s farm and the farming units of the cooperating local producers
  • organic Greek shorthorn cattle breed meat 
  • fresh Greek chicken 
  • a wide range of fresh and frozen meat products, ready for cooking 
  • fresh cold cuts in bulk 
  • packaged cold cuts 
  • packaged and in bulk sausages
  • clean label cold cuts and sausages 
  • fresh and frozen animal co-products, raw materials for soups
  • selected Greek cheeses and dairy products
  • selected spices, marinades and sauces for cooking
  • dressings, soups, barley, risotto, bulgur, tabbouleh, roasted Florina peppers to pair meat dishes cooking and serving 

The butcher store is a certified distributor of organic meat and has replaced all single-use plastic carrier bags with others made of plant-based starch, fully biodegradable and compostable.

Butcher store’s daily operation animal waste is collected, along with those of other butchers in the Municipal Market, who wish so and are transferred to the company’s rendering unit for sterilization and environmentally appropriate management.

Free shopping delivery service

With just one call customers can enjoy free of charge shopping delivery service.

Municipal Market of Xanthi

According to the late historian Thomas Exarchou, the construction work of the Municipal Market began on June 13th 1938 and was completed in 1939. The Market was founded by Eleftherios Venizelos, Pirme Minister of Greece, during the mayorship of Pygmalion Christidis. 

The Market operation began in July 1940, but was interrupted by the entry of the Bulgarian occupation troops into the city. After 1944, became mandatory for the city’s butcher stores to be housed in the building. Gradually the Market took the form it has during the last decades, based on regulations co-housing of butcher stores, fish stores, fruit, vegetable and grocery stores. According to Thomas Ecxarchou in his famous album with Xanthi’s old photographs, the whole project “costed 9.000.000 drachmas of that time”. 

Municipal Market of Xanthi was a groundbreaking construction for the time and can be considered equivalent to the Municipal Market of Chania, which was completed a few years earlier. 

Text: Charis Diafonidis, Empros Newspaper

Image: architectural design, Municipality of Xanthi archive

Design editing: Katerina Timotheou, Architect Engineer 

The Municipal Market of Xanthi, a listed monument of the interwar period