Entrepreneur
Ellines.com showcases Greek companies that despite the harsh economic crisis and against the headwinds of global recession, manage to thrive based on their organizational culture and their unbridled passion for excellence and innovation both in Greece and abroad, drawing attention from markets and the international investment ecosystem.
32 years of business operations
[:el] P. Germanos Group, Olympia Development, has been operating for 32 years in Greece with a 19-year ongoing development in the global market. Following the guidelines of dynamic management and also a successful route of strategic cooperations and 4,600 job openings in Greece an abroad,...
Prime quality natural products since 1919
The Greek leading company Helios was founded in 1919, based at 58, Athinon-Pireos str., in its first historical facilities next to XROPEI industry, an excellent strategic location chosen by Helios’s founder Stylianos Diamantopoulos. Born in 1891 at Chrisafa of Sparta, Stylianos Diamantopoulos worked several jobs...
Taste 150 years of experience
[:el] In 1860, Efstathios J. Barbayannis arrived in the picturesque village of Plomari on the fertile island of Lesvos, the place of running waters offering life to an endless variety of star anise and over two hundreds of rare fragrant herbs and plants. On this...
143 years of care and treatment
[:el] In 1870, on the covered with olive-trees island of Mytilene, Dimitris Papoutsanis established his first steam powered olive oil manufacturing unit. A small amount of this valuable first material was stocked to be later used in the production of pure olive oil soap bars,...
The best beach rackets in the world
[:el] During the ‘50s, the 20-year old carpenter Dimitris Ferendinos conceived the idea of manufacturing a wooden beach racket, thanks to his love for the sea. He successfully turned his hobby into a career and started venturing at the beginning of the ‘60s at Georgiou...
A name full of history, a brand full of Greece
[:el] Legendary Papadopoulos Biscuits industry’s venture dates back nearly a century, when the first Papadopoulos biscuit was baked and pressed with a common wooden stamp in the family’s home kitchen. Back then, no one could have imagined the day would come when Papadopoulos biscuits were...
Always seeking for cure
[:el] In 1974, two Greek friends and pharmacists set out to pursue their dreams and founded Galenica, a Greek pharmaceutical company venturing in manufacturing and trading in patent pharmaceutical products. Galenica is the first native Greek company focusing on seeking, garnering and patenting the know-how...
All people’s water
[:el] Greek family business Chitos S.A. dates back nearly 57 years of producing everyone’s favourite Zagori Natural Mineral Water, a label that has been earning the company prestige and a reputation for innovation and premium quality beyond Greece’s borders since the ‘80s. Even earlier, in...
Famous traditional pasta around the world
Ta Mylelia was founded in 1992 when Christina Panteleimonitis renovated a 305 year old derelict watermill in Lesvos Island to work as it had in the past. After several months of research and hard work the watermill started working, as it once did, producing 150...
A story of freshness
[:el] Once upon a time, there were the lemonitzidika, the traditional Greek shops selling fresh lemonade drink. Many decades ago, small industries used to produce refreshment and soft drinks, like lemonade, orangeade and lemon soda in every town of Greece. Currently, during the Facebook and...