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.
Beauty is family business
[:el] The history of Fresh Line began in 1992, when founder and chairman Mayra Vagioni Stasinopoulos decided to maximize her Zakynthian grandmother’s legacy and turn the unique traditional beauty recipes based on selected herbs and rare plants of fragrant and therapeutic qualities into a business....
Every taste deserves the best
[:el] Papadimitriou CC S.A. was founded back in 1938 and manufactured the first Greek balsamic vinegar, as it currently continues to break ground with innovative lines of superior quality products. Three generations of Papadimitriou family successfully managed to place the company’s products, like balsamic vinegar,...
Natural Greek Delight
[:el] Founder Panagiotis Marlafekas started out this promising journey in 1950, establishing a small scale industry at Pantokratoros st, in the Old Town of the city of Patras. Back then, a total of 11 equal size businesses were operating in the Achaean capital. To jump...
From the pharmacy in Pagrati to the global market
[:el] KORRES was established in 1996. The vision of George Korres to create products for the skin, based on the beneficial effects of herbs began from the first homeopathic pharmacy in Athens. Since then the company’s growth was rapid, and today it is among the...
Sweets with origins from Asia Minor
[:el] Konstantinidis Confectionaries have been present in the Greek pastry industry since the beginning of the 20th century. After the Asian Minor Disaster, Konstantinidis family relocated to the town of Larisa in 1922, where Gregory Konstantinidis started the first basic pastry shop of those times....
From nature’s pharmacy to your local pharmacy
[:el] Lili Pergada’s loyalty to the beneficial qualities of nature was the source of inspiration for a way to place these qualities in the market manufacturing health and wellbeing products. Pergada’s academic studies in the Chemistry Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and her...
From the family cellar to New York’s business towers
[:el] A family of stock farmers in a mountain village on the sierra of Pindos, a home cheese-dairy business set up at the their house cellar, a skilled grandfather with 40 years of experience and then a son following his father’s trade and two grandchildren...