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Envolve Presents Seventh Annual Awards to Greek Entrepreneurs

  On Monday, July 20, Envolve Entrepreneurship announced the four winners of the 7th Envolve Award Greece, a competition that awards start-ups and early-stage businesses in Greece. Hosted by TV personality Sakis Tanimanidis, the award ceremony took place in Athens...

Piraeus Bank, Berliner Sparkasse Join Forces to Support Greek Entrepreneurs

Piraeus Bank has entered into a credit agreement with Berliner Sparkasse to help Greek companies which have a business relationship with German enterprises in the greater Berlin area. Berliner Sparkasse is one of the largest savings banks in Germany, and Piraeus...

Young Greek Entrepreneur Makes Forbes List

A young Greek businessman has won a place in Forbes' list of the 30 most notable European entrepreneurs for 2017. Stavros Tsombanidis, based in Patra, is founder of PHEE, which manufactures gift boxes and iPhone cases from the dead leaves...

Greek Entrepreneur Couple Starts First Free Refugee School in Athens [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTHrgiiQaPU Developed and operated by Greek entrepreneur couple Maria Calafatis and Stavros Messinis, SOLE Athens is the first school in the Greek capital that offers classes to refugee children stranded in Greece. Hosted at the Cube Athens, SOLE kick-started with 13 amazingly creative...

Greek Entrepreneurs Sail on Startupboat to Provide Practical Solutions for Refugees

Since January 1, 2015 some 710,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe, according to Frontex. The vast majority come from the war-torn regions of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.  While Frontex estimates that 350,000 of them have entered through Greece, the...

Greek Entrepreneurs Beat Crisis By Creating Wooden Bow-Ties

Wooden bow ties are the next big thing in the fashion industry and they are made locally at the foothills of Mount Olympus in Pieria, northern Greece. After the Greek economic crisis broke out in Greece, Leonidas Souras, a 30-year...

Greek Entrepreneurs Who Beat the Economic Crisis

The success stories of Greek entrepreneurs who defied the economic crisis and prospered is the subject of a recent feature article in The Washington Times. Penny Vomva is a fashion designer who took the risk to open a store and sell...

First Massive, Open, Online Course for Greek Entrepreneurs

The U.S. Embassy in Athens partnered with the ALBA Graduate Business School at the American College of Greece and business incubator Metavallon to offer a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the popular Coursera platform, with Greek content, for...

Greek Entrepreneur Leaves Athens to Collect Wild Greens

The entrepreneurship and success stories of the young Greek generation give people hope and many alternative ideas on how to beat the economic crisis. Sotiris Lymperopoulos is a man who is not afraid to give up his life in...

Greek Entrepreneur Awarded Personality of the Year

Greek entrepreneur Nikolaos Koklonis has been awarded “Personality 2013-2014” for his contribution to e-business, at a ceremony held in Piraeus. Koklonis is the CEO and founder of AirFastTickets, an international online travel agency founded in 2009, and focused on providing...

Greek Entrepreneur Shot in His House

A Greek  entrepreneur from the former USSR, was attacked in his house, 11 Praxitelous street in Vouliagmeni Athens and shot several times. The unknown perpetrator invaded his home at 04.36 a.m. With head and leg injuries, the 61-year-old businessman is being...

The Pulse of Greek Entrepreneurship in 78th TIF

Tens of companies from various sectors will present their products in the 3rd thematic tribute of the 78th Thessaloniki International Fair, entitled “Greece and Entrepreneurship”, which will be developed at the stands 10, 12 and 16 of the international...

Greek Entrepreneur Threatens to Confiscate Cosco Ship

A Strong quarrel broke out between the Chinese company Cosco and Greek ship-owning businessmen. The fight revolved around Cosco's decision to reduce the charter, although they had already signed a charter agreement requiring different prices. One of the most powerful...

Thessaloniki Entrepreneur Adds Real Gold to Greek Olive Oil

Homer called Greece's olive oil "liquid gold" more than 2,500 years ago. These are the two words that inspired Thessaloniki resident Yiannis Tsapanidis to take olive oil and add real gold to it, creating a product that is literally...

Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association Adopts Greek Islet

  Kinaros, also known as Cinarus, is a small Greek island in the Aegean, located west of Kalymnos and Leros and east of Amorgos, and only 5.5 nautical miles west-southwest of Levitha. Kinaros, which is the second westernmost island of the...