The Story Behind D&D Poultry and the Glacial Treasure Brand

Every product has a history. For Glacial Treasure, that history is over thirty years long and runs through three generations of a Greek immigrant family who bet everything on Ontario chicken.

Where It Started

Kostas and Anastasia Dikeos came to Canada from Greece looking for what so many immigrant families come here looking for: the chance to build something of their own, in a place that rewards hard work. They chose chicken. They chose Toronto. And they built D&D Poultry — first as a small operation, then steadily growing into one of Ontario’s most trusted poultry processors.

The foundation was simple: make food you’d serve to your own family. Keep the quality high. Don’t cut corners. And build relationships — with farms, with restaurant owners, with the community — that last decades.

Building a Name Without a Name on the Label

For most of D&D Poultry’s history, the company operated behind the scenes. The chicken that went into Longo’s products. The product behind Mark McEwan’s label. White label manufacturing for some of Ontario’s most respected grocery brands and restaurants. D&D Poultry made it. Someone else put their name on it. The Dikeos family was content with that — they were building a reputation, even if it wasn’t yet attached to a brand name the public could see.

The Second Generation — Running the Business

All four of Kostas and Anastasia’s children now hold senior leadership roles. Betty serves as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Alex is Project Manager. Georgia manages finance as Finance Manager. Bobby coordinates production as Production Coordinator. Every major function of the business — sales, operations, finance, production — is led by a member of the Dikeos family. That’s not a corporate structure. That’s a family commitment.

The Third Generation — Working in It

Five grandchildren of Kostas and Anastasia now work across every corner of the operation. You’ll find them in the office handling admin and database systems, in the warehouse picking orders and moving product, on delivery runs across the GTA, and staffing the retail Cash & Carry on weekends. Customers who come in on Saturdays remark on seeing three generations of the same family at work. It’s unusual. It’s also the whole point.

Glacial Treasure — Finally Our Name on the Shelf

Glacial Treasure arriving at Fortinos this June is the culmination of everything the first generation built. For thirty years, this family made some of the best chicken products in Ontario without putting their name on them. Now it’s on the label. It’s long overdue.