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Volkan Awarded International Beer Honors

The Greek beer Volkan “born in Santorini” was awarded Product Innovation of the Year at the International Beer Awards of the Canadean’s 9th Annual International Beer Strategy Conference 2013 that took place from 14th to 15th May 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. Volkan competed with famous brewing industry labels, but the juries chose it for [...]

ProGreece Internet Platform Nearly Set

The Internet platform ProGreece will be ready for use by June, officials said. ProGreece is an interactive social network for German and Greek companies. The aim of this network is to match Greek companies’ excess capacities with German demand to initiate manufacturing and service agreements and to support trade between the two countries. More than [...]

Papadimitriou Company Joins Endeavor

A fifth Greek company joined the international network of Endeavor, as announced on May 13. It is the company Papadimitriou from the food industry, the selection of which was made at the International Selection Panel (ISP) that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from May 6-8. Papadimitriou Company, represented by the CEO Christos Papadimitriou, is [...]

Greece Fourth Most Corrupt In Europe

As the government tries to right a battered economy and restore some faith in Greece as a good place to do business, it has taken another hit with a finding from the auditing firm Ernst & Young, which surveyed more than 3,500 business managers, who said it’s the fourth most corrupt country in Europe. Transparency [...]

Stelios Haji-Ioannou Richest Greek in UK

The 25th anniversary issue of the Sunday Times Rich List includes the 17 richest Greeks and Greek-Cypriots in the United Kingdom. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who was originally listed as No. 1 on the Greek List’s first issue in 2007, compiled by Philip Beresford, has regained his number one position from Alki David. The 45-year-old Haji-Ioannou’s [...]

London’s Life Goddess’ Greek Mission

Living in Central London for many Greeks can feel quite far away from their beautiful country. But it’s good to know that despite being so far away, we don’t lack that little bit of uniqueness when it comes to our food innovation and community. I’ve recently heard of a new store in London called “the [...]